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Wow. I’m not sure how to put this without it coming off as a personal attack, but I really have to say it. Please be assured that I have no personal grudge agai

by Ahruman 16y ago

Wow. I’m not sure how to put this without it coming off as a personal attack, but I really have to say it. Please be assured that I have no personal grudge against you; it’s not like I know you or anything. Numerous tablets were made before the iPad. They were all completely unusable. They were all “designed” by people with your mindset. If someone asked you to design the first sofa, you’d suggest bolting three kitchen chairs together and letting the client choose what type of bolt to use. The resulting “design” would be inevitably awful, because it isn’t designed at all – rather than examining the phase space of possible solutions, it examines what you happen to have lying around on the workbench. Having no sense of design isn’t a great personal failing. I’m not much of a designer myself. Everyone’s bad at something – most things, in fact. Not realizing you don’t have it can be a problem, though.

kenjackson 16y ago
Oddly though, what you criticize me for is exactly what the iPad is. It's taking iOS and scaling it to a tablet form-factor. The key question is, what is missing from my suggestion? The internals of the iPad are basically a computer. Like literally, you can probably rip off the shell and put a Mac OS like shell on it. That's how Apple designed the iPhone too. It's really simply an issue of the shell and the ecosystem. Note, MS didn't take this approach with all of the other tablets that existed. They did NOT change the shell nor attempt to change the ecosystem. Now maybe you think Apple sucks at design too and the iPhone and the iPad are total failings. I think many would think otherwise. Not being a bad designer isn't a failing. But being able to recognize that you're talking to someone who does understand design could be a problem. :-)

by Ahruman 16y ago

kenjackson 16y ago

Oddly though, what you criticize me for is exactly what the iPad is. It's taking iOS and scaling it to a tablet form-factor. The key question is, what is missing from my suggestion? The internals of the iPad are basically a computer. Like literally, you can probably rip off the shell and put a Mac OS like shell on it. That's how Apple designed the iPhone too. It's really simply an issue of the shell and the ecosystem. Note, MS didn't take this approach with all of the other tablets that existed. They did NOT change the shell nor attempt to change the ecosystem. Now maybe you think Apple sucks at design too and the iPhone and the iPad are total failings. I think many would think otherwise. Not being a bad designer isn't a failing. But being able to recognize that you're talking to someone who does understand design could be a problem. :-)