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I do hope you enjoy yourself.
I do hope you enjoy yourself.
But sometimes the appearance-driving forces choke usability enough to leak toxic usability flaws into a shipping product. And I think, like 10.5.0’s translucent menu bar and slanty Dock, and Safari 4 Beta’s tab bar, and heavy shiny glass screens on lightweight laptops, and the Mighty Mouse, that this new Shuffle was a victim of the Apple style police defeating any semblance of common-sense usability.
Couldn’t agree more. Seems like over the past 2 years, Apple has been making decisions that may ‘look’ cool but don’t make a damn bit of sense in terms of actual ease of use.
Shuffle users have always been tolerant of minimalism - a less is more philosophy. Shuffle users accepted
But that’s not how they make money. A software update and new headphones does not create the demand that new, buttonless...
Agree! The 3D Dock is one of my favorite examples. To me...always looked like
Marco nails it. I love...translucent Menu Bar, I hate the refresh button in Safari 4....
I totally agree about...Shuffle: restricting...only one kind...
Don’t get me wrong, I...controls available...a good idea....
moving all of the playback functions...the previous shuffle
Offhand, I can’t agree. After getting used to using even...modest of click controls...
I don’t think that shrinking the keyboard will make it more ergonomic. While I’m not sure, and a little skeptical, that...
WSJ did a story on this in 07.
Couldn’t agree more. Seems like over...past 2 years, Apple has been making decisions
them completely disappear, but having...go without it has
OS Touch or whatever it is instead of easing us...lame products like said buttonless ipod...
This was very well said, but I would also like to add the fact that Apple now offers it’s keyboard w/o a numeric keypad...