> but companies like Sony make good designs then abandon > them intentionally because they're blind to their own > good design choices. I see this pat

> but companies like Sony make good designs then abandon > them intentionally because they're blind to their own > good design choices. I see this pattern a lot. Situations where people trade away their strengths by trying to mimic what's glamourous. Here's one - look at the way that OS desktops compromise strengths in order to be more like OSX. Microsoft was so focussed on making Windows feel more like aqua that they compromised things where they were strong - like the way you could get around with hotkeys, or set up items in the old start menu to be launched by two keypresses. The gnome team had what was to me the best desktop environment out there and have traded it away in their quest to be the poor-man's Aqua. (Give me window switching - I hate application swiching. In what situation would I want all of my terminals to come to the foreground in front of the web browser I'm copying commands from??)