That was a great read, BTW. Thanks for the hook up, Malokata.
I remember shopping for computers in 1998, and most of the Macs I looked at had drives, and not many PCs did.
I must be thinking of DVD burners. Apple did really have those out before the PC world caught on, as I recall. And they had the first sub-10lb laptop with a Superdrive. But I could be wrong.
I think Apple 'missed the boat' on CD-R because they were banking on people networking their machines together and transferring files that way (i for internet, remember) and just like in ditching floppies they were right, its just that the plebs were a bit slow on the uptake.
I'd imagine they only changed their tune because CD-Audio burning caught on as I'm not sure that burning a CD is an everyday activity even today for non-techies.
A handful of familiar cliches have made the rounds to explain this -- it's about ease of use, it's about Apple's great sense of design. But what does that really mean? ''Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like,'' says Steve Jobs, Apple's C.E.O. ''People think it's this veneer -- that the designers are handed this box and told, 'Make it look good!' That's not what we think design is. It's not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.''
(--emphasis mine)
Exactly, at least that's my interpretation of design (and Henry Dreyfuss's.) What something looks like is styling--no less important, but it's a component of design, not design, itself.
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too good....just too friggin good.
(yes I saw pensieves post)
Originally posted by murbot
<insert remark about Placebo and a crack pipe>
That was a great read, BTW. Thanks for the hook up, Malokata.
I remember shopping for computers in 1998, and most of the Macs I looked at had drives, and not many PCs did.
I must be thinking of DVD burners. Apple did really have those out before the PC world caught on, as I recall. And they had the first sub-10lb laptop with a Superdrive. But I could be wrong.
I'd imagine they only changed their tune because CD-Audio burning caught on as I'm not sure that burning a CD is an everyday activity even today for non-techies.
A handful of familiar cliches have made the rounds to explain this -- it's about ease of use, it's about Apple's great sense of design. But what does that really mean? ''Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like,'' says Steve Jobs, Apple's C.E.O. ''People think it's this veneer -- that the designers are handed this box and told, 'Make it look good!' That's not what we think design is. It's not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.''
(--emphasis mine)
Exactly, at least that's my interpretation of design (and Henry Dreyfuss's.) What something looks like is styling--no less important, but it's a component of design, not design, itself.