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Judging by the screenshots Microsoft still doesn't get design and why it's important. It's not just about polish, it's about a user experience where the overall
by mixmax 14y ago
Judging by the screenshots Microsoft still doesn't get design and why it's important. It's not just about polish, it's about a user experience where the overall design decisions saturate the whole device. Similar design elements must have the same look and feel, and behave in similar ways.
The screenshot of the task manager looks like something from windows NT, the display appearance screenshot looks like win7, and the whole thing is glossed over by a new fancy design that seemingly is only a thin slice of beauty that reveals the ugly interior as soon as you start delving into the system. From a UI standpoint it looks like a complete mess, where the ugly head of legacy rears its head at every corner.
This is the major differentiator between Apple and Microsoft, and is a large factor in the continued success of Apple. Microsoft doesn't seem to understand this at all.
- pavlov 14y agoJudging by the screenshots ... Why bother judging by the screenshots? There are plenty of actual Windows 8 devices out there. It's fairly pointless to post guesswork about the UI.
- bandushrew 14y agohow do screen shots represent 'guesswork'?
- halviti 14y agoUser Interface is about user experience. You can't experience using a product with some photographs. Similarly, you can't pretend to be a judge of good design based on a couple of photographs. This guy was clearly just spouting an opinion based on nothing, and we shouldn't respond to such comments as if they deserve merit.
- pavlov 14y agoTake a person who has never used iOS. Show her screenshots of the home screen and a few random Apple apps -- say, Find My Friends and Podcasts. Would you expect her to draw a reasonable conclusion of what it's like to use an iPhone and how the design works in practice? More likely, looking at screenshots would divert her attention to secondary things like the textures and illustrations used in the apps rather than the actual UI design.
- ishansharma 14y agoThey haves messed up even basic colours in Metro. Only two out of some fifteen colour schemes look good with Metro!
- ekianjo 14y ago> continued success of Apple Well it looks like Android is largely catching up on Apple's iOS, and actually selling more than iOS phones worldwide. Tablets is yet another story. Apple's edge may not be enough to justify the extra bucks they are asking for, and Apple's share in laptops remains marginal at best. And Apple has no intent to make things cheap anyway, so their reach will remain limited in that field.
- laumars 14y agoAndroid overtook iOS a few years ago. The Samsung SIII also outsells the iPhone 5 - never mind all Android handsets vs all Apple handsets. At least that's the global statistics. Most of the rest of the world isn't nearly as Apple-obsessed as America is.
- halostatue 14y ago[citation needed] I have not seen anything that suggests that any single Android phone yet outsells the “latest” iOS phone on a full quarter basis. In CQ3 2012, the S3 topped the iPhone 4S by a couple million “shipments” (vs verified sales), but that's not surprising because the iPhone 5 was introduced. I didn't pay attention to the recent earnings reports, though, so it's entirely possible that this changed this quarter—but I have my doubts.
- jarcoal 14y agoCitation most certainly needed. I have a feeling the iPhone 4 is still outselling the S3.
- laumars 14y agoThe S3 is the biggest selling handset. Even beating the 4s as well: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2013723/samsungs-galaxy-s-iii-outsells-the-iphone-4s.html http://www.pcworld.com/article/2013723/samsungs-galaxy-s-iii...
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- pekk 14y agoI would love to see a design criticism even once that did not hold up Apple as perfect.
- _Simon 14y agoGood design is hard. Apple are one of the very few hardware manufacturers in the world that understand the value of good industrial design beyond spit and polish. If there are other companies, they certainly don't work in the computing/mobile computing sector.
- halviti 14y agoThe screenshot of the task manager ... I find the task manager in Windows 8 to be a big improvement over previous versions, so I spent 10 minutes going back and forth through the article trying to find what you're talking about. There are no pictures of the task manager at all. You're attempting to base an opinion on some random photos, rather than actually trying the product for yourself.
- Shorel 14y agoFor me, anything is a big improvement over the standard task manager, and I always use Process Explorer instead.