I've always thought/.'s rss feeds are somewhat useless without any content included. If/. offered full content to their rss feeds, that would be the greatest incentive for me to subscribe.
Knowing what the DoJ did to catch you, what would you recommend to others to prevent being caught? Were your personal security measures (encryption, anonymization, etc.) lax or altogether absent?
Apple doesn't strive to make cool products for coolness sake. It strives to make incredibly well engineered products that result in better accessibility and design than industry counterparts. It is the degree to which Apple's products are better designed that make them stand out, make them "cool."
Coolness isn't the design goal. Coolness is a biproduct of the design.
As to the success of Microsoft products (and AOL to a lesser degree) there are more poigniant, and far less noble reasons for its success than JonKatz's notion of appealing to the needs of the middle-class home and business user (which I reject outright).
The idea that "utilitarian and dull" are interrelated ingrediants to successful technology is nonsense. Why does Microsoft put all those special effects into the user interface of its new operating systems? And I would need a calculator to count the special effects and visual gadgetry in Microsoft's Offcie Suite. Utilitarian and dull, indeed.
Apple products are about getting things done efficiently and pleasantly. That, for some strange reason, strikes people as being cool.
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I've always thought /.'s rss feeds are somewhat useless without any content included. If /. offered full content to their rss feeds, that would be the greatest incentive for me to subscribe.
Knowing what the DoJ did to catch you, what would you recommend to others to prevent being caught? Were your personal security measures (encryption, anonymization, etc.) lax or altogether absent?
Apple doesn't strive to make cool products for coolness sake. It strives to make incredibly well engineered products that result in better accessibility and design than industry counterparts. It is the degree to which Apple's products are better designed that make them stand out, make them "cool."
Coolness isn't the design goal. Coolness is a biproduct of the design.
As to the success of Microsoft products (and AOL to a lesser degree) there are more poigniant, and far less noble reasons for its success than JonKatz's notion of appealing to the needs of the middle-class home and business user (which I reject outright).
The idea that "utilitarian and dull" are interrelated ingrediants to successful technology is nonsense. Why does Microsoft put all those special effects into the user interface of its new operating systems? And I would need a calculator to count the special effects and visual gadgetry in Microsoft's Offcie Suite. Utilitarian and dull, indeed.
Apple products are about getting things done efficiently and pleasantly. That, for some strange reason, strikes people as being cool.