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Apple, Motorola Plan An iTunes-Friendly Phone
PabloJones writes "Apple and Motorola have come together to create a new mp3-enabled cell phone, according to this Reuters article. It says that the device will be capable of storing about 12 songs, and will be fully integrated with iTunes. Perhaps this is a beginning of a new relationship between the two companies, after the PowerPC problems between the two in recent years."
Yes and then people will defend that design issue with arguments like;
"my grandmother understands it"
"its simplier elegent UI"
"a refreshing change for the masses and advanced users alike"
"How intutive is right-clicking anyways?"
Whoops, scratch that last one.
The surprise isn't how often we make bad choices; the surprise is how seldom they defeat us.
Please, there is no such "intuitive" and there is nothing intuitive about Apples products. If you are used to the products of Apple, then yes, the controls will seem familiar to you. But they will not be intuitive. You will not have the knowledge of button placement encoded into your DNA. It will merely be consistent with expected behavior.
If you were used to and familiar with another companies products, Apple's products would seem very strange and alien to you. They would not even be recognizable as a pattern at all, and certainly not an expected one.
Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress at this period in history.