What’s Apple’s problem with buttons?

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.

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   Shuffle users have always been tolerant of minimalism - a less is more philosophy. Shuffle users accepted

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   But that’s not how they make money. A software update and new headphones does not create the demand that new, buttonless...

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   Agree! The 3D Dock is one of my favorite examples. To me...always looked like

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   Marco nails it. I love...translucent Menu Bar, I hate the refresh button in Safari 4....

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    I totally agree about...Shuffle: restricting...only one kind...

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    Don’t get me wrong, I...controls available...a good idea....

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    moving all of the playback functions...the previous shuffle

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    Offhand, I can’t agree. After getting used to using even...modest of click controls...

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    I don’t think that shrinking the keyboard will make it more ergonomic. While I’m not sure, and a little skeptical, that...

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    WSJ did a story on this in 07.

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    Couldn’t agree more. Seems like over...past 2 years, Apple has been making decisions

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    them completely disappear, but having...go without it has

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    OS Touch or whatever it is instead of easing us...lame products like said buttonless ipod...

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37. mm85 reblogged this from marco and added:

    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...

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