In comments to Nielsen's article about our iPad usability studies, some critics claimed that it is reasonable to experiment with radically new interaction techniques when given a new platform. We agree. But the place for such experimentation is in the lab. After all, most new ideas fail, and the more radically they depart from previous best practices, the more likely they are to fail. Sometimes, a radical idea turns out to be a brilliant radical breakthrough. Those designs should indeed ship, but note that radical breakthroughs are extremely rare in any discipline. Most progress is made through sustained, small incremental steps. Bold explorations should remain inside the company and university research laboratories and not be inflicted on any customers until those recruited to participate in user research have validated the approach.
I appreciate that they're important contributors to UI design, but their attitude is unrealistic to companies that are trying to ship products, make profit and gain market share. Companies spending too much time perfecting their UI design will go out of business while their competitors are shipping flawed but ultimately usable products.
I never said wealth is directly equal to creativity, I said that desire for wealth can be a force for creativity.
Here we go back to the point I was originally making. Back in the '70s and '80s people were saying the Japanese were not creative, only robots who were just copying ideas from the rest of the world. When your economy and technology are behind the fastest way to catch up is to copy what successful people have done before you, but once you catch up then you need to innovate to get ahead. This is true of Japan and will be true of China.
Well, Japan isn't governed by a totalitarian regime, but it does have a culture of conformity. However, despite that there is a lot of originality in Japan. China has a semi-capitalist system, and there are plenty of opportunities to become wealthy and from what I've seen the Chinese embrace wealth to a much greater extent than the Japanese. The desire for wealth will be a force for creativity in China much like it is in the rest of the capitalist world.
They have demonstrated a great ability to produce but little in the way of useful original ideas when it comes to those gadgets and geegaws.
That's the same thing people said about Japan. I think it amounts to wishful thinking. People are people. Ultimately the Chinese are just as smart (or dumb) as the rest of the human race.
This is because the Newton was marketed as having handwriting recognition while the Palm was marketed as having a system to write with using a stylus. The Newton was also supposed to learn your handwriting, so over time the errors were supposed to become less frequent, but in my experience that didn't work either. (The second generation Newton was supposed to be better, but I never got around to using it.)
It is the original iMac and the subsequent colored iMacs that were important for Apple's comeback. However, the flower power and dalmatian iMacs were not as well received. Perhaps you're confusing them?
This has discussed before in other articles about lasers. The problem with mirrors is that they old reflect a % of the energy of the laser and are soon damaged to the point where they no longer reflect at all.
I don't know about earthquakes, but the gambler's fallacy applies if the chance of an event occurring is random (or independent). Saying that an event is overdue is perhaps suggesting that it is not random, that the system has some type of memory. Perhaps tension is building up and will be released.
One of the common comments made about BeOS is that they didn't even have printing working at the time. The point is not that they were missing a particular feature, but that they were immature and probably missing a lot of the features needed for a consumer OS. On the other hand NeXT had already shipped several generations their OS and had been in the hands of a good number of end users.
Another important point is that NeXT is based on BSD Unix, while BeOS was a whole new operating system. Although BeOS offered POSIX compatibility NeXT is real Unix and has a greater level of compatibility with Unix software.
I think adopting BeOS would have made Apple's next generation OS offering much less appealing.
Note that there was a technical committee at Apple that was in charge of evaluating which OS to adopt next. Everyone except one person chose NeXT, the one exception chose Solaris. No one chose BeOS.
Of course, as another commenter mentioned, with NeXT came the return of Steve Jobs. He's probably the real reason for Apple's current success.
Softbank, the only official carrier of the iPhone in Japan, still doesn't support tethering. I don't know if they're cracking down on unofficial use though.
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There are multiple accepted spellings of http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/archeology
In the article they say:
In comments to Nielsen's article about our iPad usability studies, some critics claimed that it is reasonable to experiment with radically new interaction techniques when given a new platform. We agree. But the place for such experimentation is in the lab. After all, most new ideas fail, and the more radically they depart from previous best practices, the more likely they are to fail. Sometimes, a radical idea turns out to be a brilliant radical breakthrough. Those designs should indeed ship, but note that radical breakthroughs are extremely rare in any discipline. Most progress is made through sustained, small incremental steps. Bold explorations should remain inside the company and university research laboratories and not be inflicted on any customers until those recruited to participate in user research have validated the approach.
I appreciate that they're important contributors to UI design, but their attitude is unrealistic to companies that are trying to ship products, make profit and gain market share. Companies spending too much time perfecting their UI design will go out of business while their competitors are shipping flawed but ultimately usable products.
Apparently he only paid $800/night
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703509104576327214085505544.html
Now, if you could get a web server running on that thing it'd be pretty cool.
I have no idea what you mean by that.
I never said wealth is directly equal to creativity, I said that desire for wealth can be a force for creativity.
Here we go back to the point I was originally making. Back in the '70s and '80s people were saying the Japanese were not creative, only robots who were just copying ideas from the rest of the world. When your economy and technology are behind the fastest way to catch up is to copy what successful people have done before you, but once you catch up then you need to innovate to get ahead. This is true of Japan and will be true of China.
Well, Japan isn't governed by a totalitarian regime, but it does have a culture of conformity. However, despite that there is a lot of originality in Japan. China has a semi-capitalist system, and there are plenty of opportunities to become wealthy and from what I've seen the Chinese embrace wealth to a much greater extent than the Japanese. The desire for wealth will be a force for creativity in China much like it is in the rest of the capitalist world.
They have demonstrated a great ability to produce but little in the way of useful original ideas when it comes to those gadgets and geegaws.
That's the same thing people said about Japan. I think it amounts to wishful thinking. People are people. Ultimately the Chinese are just as smart (or dumb) as the rest of the human race.
Have you tried giving the primates an iPad? Just curious?
Given the general bias of that site I doubt that report is accurate.
This is because the Newton was marketed as having handwriting recognition while the Palm was marketed as having a system to write with using a stylus. The Newton was also supposed to learn your handwriting, so over time the errors were supposed to become less frequent, but in my experience that didn't work either. (The second generation Newton was supposed to be better, but I never got around to using it.)
Well, Microsoft already announced that they're doing ARM for Windows, so looks like it's going to happen either way.
It is the original iMac and the subsequent colored iMacs that were important for Apple's comeback. However, the flower power and dalmatian iMacs were not as well received. Perhaps you're confusing them?
http://www.apple.com/pr/photos/imac2001/imac_tokyo.html
http://www.applegazette.com/imac/flower-power-imac-named-one-of-the-ugliest-tech-products-ever/
Ah, actually I meant the Mighty Mouse.
Some examples:
Negative campaigning during the election of Thomas Jefferson vs. John Adams
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/wayoflife/08/22/mf.campaign.slurs.slogans/index.html
Why Obama is not first 'imposter' president and won't be the last
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/08/09/president.imposter/index.html
Apple has been doing very well since Steve's return, especially in the last ten years or so, but there has been a handful of flops to various degrees:
Mac G4 Cube .Mac/mobile me
hockeypuck mouse
magic mouse
Dalmatian & flower power iMacs
Motorola ROKR
iPod socks
iPod Hi-Fi
Ping
For some reason I find this billboard of her amusing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MtAlbert_2009_Billboards2.jpg
This has discussed before in other articles about lasers. The problem with mirrors is that they old reflect a % of the energy of the laser and are soon damaged to the point where they no longer reflect at all.
I don't know about earthquakes, but the gambler's fallacy applies if the chance of an event occurring is random (or independent). Saying that an event is overdue is perhaps suggesting that it is not random, that the system has some type of memory. Perhaps tension is building up and will be released.
Since the (bad) description for this article.
"The uploader has not made this video available in your country."
It works for strip clubs.
In DOCOMO commercials in Japan, the actual Galaxy Tab pretends to be Ken Watanabe: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y8fjslHJuk
One of the common comments made about BeOS is that they didn't even have printing working at the time. The point is not that they were missing a particular feature, but that they were immature and probably missing a lot of the features needed for a consumer OS. On the other hand NeXT had already shipped several generations their OS and had been in the hands of a good number of end users.
Another important point is that NeXT is based on BSD Unix, while BeOS was a whole new operating system. Although BeOS offered POSIX compatibility NeXT is real Unix and has a greater level of compatibility with Unix software.
I think adopting BeOS would have made Apple's next generation OS offering much less appealing.
Note that there was a technical committee at Apple that was in charge of evaluating which OS to adopt next. Everyone except one person chose NeXT, the one exception chose Solaris. No one chose BeOS.
Of course, as another commenter mentioned, with NeXT came the return of Steve Jobs. He's probably the real reason for Apple's current success.
Softbank, the only official carrier of the iPhone in Japan, still doesn't support tethering. I don't know if they're cracking down on unofficial use though.