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Why Apple won

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-07 9:18

http://coderoom.wordpress.com/2010/06/06/is-that-all/

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-07 9:21

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-07 9:22

die blog fag

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-07 9:26

At what contest?

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-07 9:49

>>4
"How many liters of jizz can we pump into your anus"

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-07 10:12

>>1
That, I suppose, is the question.  "Won what?"  Are there any awards? any acknowledgments? any comparative sales charts?

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-07 10:15

read xkcd

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-07 10:17

>>6
Won the support of the author of that article I think.

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-07 10:59

>>8
Hey! Stop necrobumping!!!

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-07 11:11

>>9
back to /hugbox/, please.

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-07 12:46

>>1
Yeah um, I felt like "Is that all?" the first time I used an iPad too. Except then I didn't have a revelation about how well it's designed, because I don't have a deep need to delude myself into validating my Apple fanboyism.

I think this guy is confusing "ease of use" with "complete and total lack of functionality". There's no UI because an iPad is useless; it doesn't actually do anything EXCEPT show you pictures and websites.

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-07 13:04

>>11
So, what, you want to audit enterprise-level systems on what is, by design, a digital stone tablet?

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-07 13:11

>>11
The point is about ease of use for doing the things that should be easy to do: read some web pages or possibly books/documentation, write a short message or email, maybe some games, music and movies. The iPad is all about convenience, not power.

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-07 13:15

>>12
If only other tablets existed to provide a baseline expectation of functionality. But no, that's the problem when you're dealing with a company as innovative as Apple: everything they do is completely new and there's no possible point of comparison.

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-07 14:09

>>14
the Ipad isn't first or best, its successful because
Streamlined/Intuitive interface which beats all other interfaces in being user-friendly.

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-07 14:09

>>13
Except the usual PC or tablet gives you more power and more convenience, providing you're not stupid.

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-07 14:09

>>15
Everyone knows that it's successful because Apple is good at marketing, nothing else.

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-07 14:17

>>15
If it can be called successful at all, it's only because of the Apple logo. The iPod, MacBook Air, and iPhone proved once and for all (admittedly to varying degrees) that the quality of the product doesn't have shit to do with whether or not fanboys will end up worshipping it or not.

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-07 14:25

>>18
'Fanboy worship' doesn't explain the swathes of iPhone rip-offs (or 'design copies') that have now turned the mobile phone into a mostly keyless device.

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-07 14:29

>>19
A lot of people copy the company in 1st place. Look at the Sony Move and the Wii.

Also iPhone 4, OH MAH GAWD!

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-07 14:59

>>19
Of course it does. There's a huge market segment of Apple-loving hipsters who can't actually afford the prices Apple charges, and they can be won over by knock-offs.

Name: 11 2010-06-07 18:59

>>12
So, what, you want to audit enterprise-level systems on what is, by design, a digital stone tablet?
No, I don't want one at all. It's fucking useless.

A multitouch laptop/tablet hybrid with a swivel display on the other hand... all the power of a real actual laptop, and the convenience of multitouch keyboard-less couch browsing and media consumption. The only thing missing is they keep making these goddamn things with x86 processors, so they eat battery like there's no tomorrow.

In other words, this: http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/asus-delivers-eee-pc-t91mt-to-amazon-com-completes-world-tour/ except with ARM and Linux.

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-07 19:47

>>22
Them being x86 is useful as it gives you much greater compatiblity, as pretty much anything works on x86 these days(you could even run Windows applications if you wanted), but the power consumption might be a problem.

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-07 21:31

>>23
mono works great on linux on ARM. i use it all the time on my n810. i've also run windows 2000 in qemu, and that was a little slow, but still usable. a modern ARM processor should be able to handle windows 7 without any trouble. qemu+wine might also be a viable option.

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-07 22:35

>>24
A native x86 would probably be faster than an ARM executing the same program. While an x86 would consume more power, an underclocked x86 (to let's say, equivalent speed of the ARM's emulating x86) would consume much less, probably less than the ARM.

Of course, how relevant this is depends on the amount of ARM to x86 code executed on the CPU.

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-08 5:52

>>23-25
I have no need for Windows crapware.
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