It's true about the iPod's clickwheel interface, it's pretty darn intuitive.
But let's not forget about how many revisions it went through, and how brilliantly Apple marketed each revision as something other than a "beta test."
Apple did a good job of timing not to mention seeing a product through properly. Most products after that much thinking through and development time should be pretty refined, and this is probably why the Open Source community's effort in everyone's free time just won't quite live up to Apple's effort.
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It's true about the iPod's clickwheel interface, it's pretty darn intuitive. But let's not forget about how many revisions it went through, and how brilliantly Apple marketed each revision as something other than a "beta test." Apple did a good job of timing not to mention seeing a product through properly. Most products after that much thinking through and development time should be pretty refined, and this is probably why the Open Source community's effort in everyone's free time just won't quite live up to Apple's effort.