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Apple seems to be fighting a losing battle here. Google has a larger war chest - that is more products which people find great value in, than Apple and they ar
by martythemaniak 17y ago
Apple seems to be fighting a losing battle here. Google has a larger war chest - that is more products which people find great value in, than Apple and they are fighting on the side of openness which is more in the interests of users. At the same time, I do appreciate the fact that Apple has instilled a sense of aesthetics into the industry.
- ecq 17y agoGoogle's only major cash cow is search. they know this that is why they are trying to get into apps. mobile, etc. throwing everything against the wall to see what sticks. other than search, Google doesn't have anything.
- verisimilitude 17y agoWhile I can't disagree with your idea of aesthetics, I would argue that Apple's entire product line is not about an aesthetic sense as much as a design imperative. In promotional interviews for products (iPad, recent iMacs) you'll find Ives repeatedly mentioning how many unnecessary elements he and his team have _removed_ from products. This seems to be the ideal from which their industrial design team works. Cf. Steve Jobs quote: “Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like. People think it’s this veneer — that the designers are handed this box and told, ‘Make it look good!’ That’s not what we think design is. It’s not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” That quote was curated by Gruber: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2009/03/20/design-is-how-it-works http://daringfireball.net/linked/2009/03/20/design-is-how-it...