No, they looked around for the best interface for dispaying books and settled on a book case. not "delicious library's shelves". That's just a silly thing to say.
I think that the surprise is from folks who think that Apple is an innovative company instead of a "me too" company. I was quite surprised at the "me too" ripoff that they released as the iBook app. If Apple intends to do for the publishing industry what it did to the music industry, they need than to better than copy a recipe and produce an undistinguished copyapp.
I think that the surprise is from folks who think that Apple is an innovative company instead of a "me too" company. I was quite surprised at the "me too" ripoff that they released as the iBook app. If Apple intends to do for the publishing industry what it did to the music industry, they need than to better than copy a recipe and produce an undistinguished copyapp.
A copy of what? Of a book store?
Delicious is not an eBook purchasing application.
If apple aren't allowed (in your opinion) to present books in a way they've been presented for a couple of centuries then what do you suggest?
This entire debate is ridiculous.
Maybe in order to 'think different', Apple should present the books in an interface like a fairground, with the books spinning around a ferris wheel operated by mutant alien frog people?! Are you suggesting they have to do something new simply because the store is new?
Display books = bookcase. Did delicious (or any software company) invent that?
I think that the surprise is from folks who think that Apple is an innovative company instead of a "me too" company. I was quite surprised at the "me too" ripoff that they released as the iBook app. If Apple intends to do for the publishing industry what it did to the music industry, they need than to better than copy a recipe and produce an undistinguished copyapp.
Except that Apple owned the designer of Delicious.
Delicious Monster Visual Designer = Mike Matas
Sr Visual Designer at Apple = Mike Matas (left Apple July 2009)
I think that the surprise is from folks who think that Apple is an innovative company instead of a "me too" company. I was quite surprised at the "me too" ripoff that they released as the iBook app. If Apple intends to do for the publishing industry what it did to the music industry, they need than to better than copy a recipe and produce an undistinguished copyapp.
Also, there is surprise that Apple chose a two facing pages look for the landscape display of these "books", which is a total ripoff of books. If they were really as "innovative" as their apologists claim, they would have had the pages display as windows in a building, or facets of a rotating icosahedron, or on the backs of passing birds.
Also, have you seen their calendar app? Outright theft of calenders. The days go from Monday through Sunday, left to right, with the hours displayed vertically and the month as text at the top. Really, check it out sometime, it's shameless. I'd be surprised if Pope Gregory doesn't sue, although of course the fan boys would be all like "WTF he's been dead for over 500 years, he has no standing!" Stupid fan boys.
The web interface will be more efficient as you can have tabs. This way you can compare two apps side-by-side. It will also allow websites to more easily generate statistics about the App Store.
The App Store doesn't really need to be in itunes at all. Download links should just open in itunes.
This will mean it also doesn't freak people out when a web link opens itunes up. That was a bit worrying the first time I clicked an itunes link. It will instead just load another web page.
Also, there is surprise that Apple chose a two facing pages look for the landscape display of these "books", which is a total ripoff of books. If they were really as "innovative" as their apologists claim, they would have had the pages display as windows in a building, or facets of a rotating icosahedron, or on the backs of passing birds.
Also, have you seen their calendar app? Outright theft of calenders. The days go from Monday through Sunday, left to right, with the hours displayed vertically and the month as text at the top. Really, check it out sometime, it's shameless. I'd be surprised if Pope Gregory doesn't sue, although of course the fan boys would be all like "WTF he's been dead for over 500 years, he has no standing!" Stupid fan boys.
Also, there is surprise that Apple chose a two facing pages look for the landscape display of these "books", which is a total ripoff of books. If they were really as "innovative" as their apologists claim, they would have had the pages display as windows in a building, or facets of a rotating icosahedron, or on the backs of passing birds.
Also, have you seen their calendar app? Outright theft of calenders. The days go from Monday through Sunday, left to right, with the hours displayed vertically and the month as text at the top. Really, check it out sometime, it's shameless. I'd be surprised if Pope Gregory doesn't sue, although of course the fan boys would be all like "WTF he's been dead for over 500 years, he has no standing!" Stupid fan boys.
Sweet! Now we've got two interfaces for the same thing, and the new one is less functional than the old.
I don't know, this sounds like a good idea to me. If iTunes isn't running it's kind of slow when the link redirects to and then launches iTunes. That's also annoying if you click a link that you don't realize is an iTunes link. If the app info opens directly in the browser, that will pop up faster for users and feel more integrated with their web browsing.
I wonder with the iTunes, and App stores now becoming available through the web if we might see Apple finally ditch iTunes as the hub of all the mobile devices. iTunes went from being a great way to organize music to be a kitchen sink solution for everything that needs syncing.
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No, they looked around for the best interface for dispaying books and settled on a book case. not "delicious library's shelves". That's just a silly thing to say.
I think that the surprise is from folks who think that Apple is an innovative company instead of a "me too" company. I was quite surprised at the "me too" ripoff that they released as the iBook app. If Apple intends to do for the publishing industry what it did to the music industry, they need than to better than copy a recipe and produce an undistinguished copyapp.
instead of using the Apple page, try http://www.appexplorer.com/
Hey People, I hadn't seen this before.
Do you know where Apple ripped off iBooks?
Forget the guys who built the Classics interface. I bet the first bookstore to display books like this is steaming, too.
I think that the surprise is from folks who think that Apple is an innovative company instead of a "me too" company. I was quite surprised at the "me too" ripoff that they released as the iBook app. If Apple intends to do for the publishing industry what it did to the music industry, they need than to better than copy a recipe and produce an undistinguished copyapp.
A copy of what? Of a book store?
Delicious is not an eBook purchasing application.
If apple aren't allowed (in your opinion) to present books in a way they've been presented for a couple of centuries then what do you suggest?
This entire debate is ridiculous.
Maybe in order to 'think different', Apple should present the books in an interface like a fairground, with the books spinning around a ferris wheel operated by mutant alien frog people?! Are you suggesting they have to do something new simply because the store is new?
Display books = bookcase. Did delicious (or any software company) invent that?
I think that the surprise is from folks who think that Apple is an innovative company instead of a "me too" company. I was quite surprised at the "me too" ripoff that they released as the iBook app. If Apple intends to do for the publishing industry what it did to the music industry, they need than to better than copy a recipe and produce an undistinguished copyapp.
Except that Apple owned the designer of Delicious.
Delicious Monster Visual Designer = Mike Matas
Sr Visual Designer at Apple = Mike Matas (left Apple July 2009)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delicious_Monster
I think that the surprise is from folks who think that Apple is an innovative company instead of a "me too" company. I was quite surprised at the "me too" ripoff that they released as the iBook app. If Apple intends to do for the publishing industry what it did to the music industry, they need than to better than copy a recipe and produce an undistinguished copyapp.
Also, there is surprise that Apple chose a two facing pages look for the landscape display of these "books", which is a total ripoff of books. If they were really as "innovative" as their apologists claim, they would have had the pages display as windows in a building, or facets of a rotating icosahedron, or on the backs of passing birds.
Also, have you seen their calendar app? Outright theft of calenders. The days go from Monday through Sunday, left to right, with the hours displayed vertically and the month as text at the top. Really, check it out sometime, it's shameless. I'd be surprised if Pope Gregory doesn't sue, although of course the fan boys would be all like "WTF he's been dead for over 500 years, he has no standing!" Stupid fan boys.
The App Store doesn't really need to be in itunes at all. Download links should just open in itunes.
This will mean it also doesn't freak people out when a web link opens itunes up. That was a bit worrying the first time I clicked an itunes link. It will instead just load another web page.
Also, there is surprise that Apple chose a two facing pages look for the landscape display of these "books", which is a total ripoff of books. If they were really as "innovative" as their apologists claim, they would have had the pages display as windows in a building, or facets of a rotating icosahedron, or on the backs of passing birds.
Also, have you seen their calendar app? Outright theft of calenders. The days go from Monday through Sunday, left to right, with the hours displayed vertically and the month as text at the top. Really, check it out sometime, it's shameless. I'd be surprised if Pope Gregory doesn't sue, although of course the fan boys would be all like "WTF he's been dead for over 500 years, he has no standing!" Stupid fan boys.
Also, there is surprise that Apple chose a two facing pages look for the landscape display of these "books", which is a total ripoff of books. If they were really as "innovative" as their apologists claim, they would have had the pages display as windows in a building, or facets of a rotating icosahedron, or on the backs of passing birds.
Also, have you seen their calendar app? Outright theft of calenders. The days go from Monday through Sunday, left to right, with the hours displayed vertically and the month as text at the top. Really, check it out sometime, it's shameless. I'd be surprised if Pope Gregory doesn't sue, although of course the fan boys would be all like "WTF he's been dead for over 500 years, he has no standing!" Stupid fan boys.
Sweet! Now we've got two interfaces for the same thing, and the new one is less functional than the old.
I don't know, this sounds like a good idea to me. If iTunes isn't running it's kind of slow when the link redirects to and then launches iTunes. That's also annoying if you click a link that you don't realize is an iTunes link. If the app info opens directly in the browser, that will pop up faster for users and feel more integrated with their web browsing.
That conclusion is erroneous. Delicious Monster was using the obvious wood shelf design log before iBooks was a glyph in the developer's eye.
Example: http://images.google.com/images?q=de...ibrary%20books
When I saw the demo of iBooks I gasped, "OMIGOD They stole the interface from Delicious Library!!"