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Ask HN: If the iPad succeeds, what will this do to business applications?
A few years back I suggested (with tongue in cheek) that rich web applications like Google Mail were educating users about how helpful and useful computers can be, which in turn would put social pressure on business application development to keep up.
http://weblog.raganwald.com/2007/09/we-have-lost-control-of-apparatus.html
Now I wonder: If the iPad is as much of a success as the iPhone, what will this do to business applications. Does it raise the bar for user interfaces?
- noodle 17y agomost heavy lifting business applications are complex, and built with efficiency of the user in mind. it is difficult to reduce a very complex system down into a simple UI without killing efficiency. i've tried. (or maybe the software i work on is just way too complex). so, most business apps do their best to make a good UI, and then throw a manual at users and say "learn the system".
- raganwald 17y agoContent-free aphorism: "A business application should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler."