Re: [iPad] Re: Win8

 


Useful, welcome radical change for me would be replacing the keyboard - which we've been using for nearly two centuries - with a much more efficient manual input device.  Screens need to become compressible - like a fold-out paper map, maybe.  Apple's done a lovely job with redesigning very old devices - and that's no trivial thing - but maybe the Apple II and the Apple TV have been the only true breakout products.  Well, I'm assuming assume the ATV was the first hocky puck.  Maybe not.

A big problem with true innovation these days is that you're immediately copied.  Copyright laws seem not to protect design innovation.  So, apparently, it's much safer and more profitable just tweaking what's been proved to work.


On Wednesday, April 24, 2013, Tony wrote:
 

Actually rapid change has not been happening on the dark side. Many of what they have that is useful, has existed for a long time. So, what features they tend to add now are largely incremental and improvements. Much like Apple, except Apple has yet to catch up with standard and basic useful functions.
 
Sad thing is, it would be easy for Apple to tidy that up, which would not be a 200 new features situation. More like 10 or less.
 
Changes for changes sake is where Samsung go. Marketing, although it ends up childish, if you recall the feature comparison they did in their ads..

From: David Smith <david.smith.14916@gmail.com>
To: "iPad@yahoogroups.com" <iPad@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, 25 April 2013 4:49 AM
Subject: Re: [iPad] Re: Win8
 

Yeah.  But continual, rapid change can be disorienting.  If auto makers kept redesigning the user interface for the steering mechanism, gas injection, and braking, driving could become a lot more stressful for people buying new cars.  Comfort depends on intuitive certainty, and if change in your environment happens too often, you're kept off balance.

Radical change can be good, of course, but it shouldn't happen for trivial or unconsidered reasons.  Change for change's sake - for novelty - is a marketing trick.  We see far too much if that these days.
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On Apr 23, 2013, at 11:46 PM, Julie Mavity-Hudson <julie.mavity@gmail.com> wrote:
 
They might surprise us yet. People were saying everything had been invented and there wouldnt be any real changes just before the airplane was invented, and look how many changes have taken place since then. It'll be fun seeing why they come up with next. 
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On Apr 23, 2013, at 10:35 PM, Tony <tdale@xtra.co.nz> wrote:
 
I don't think there is much option with hardware to do anything more then copy and improve marginally. Its mature.
 
OS wise, well, improve marginally is what Apple is doing, I don't think that really cuts it now as the market is widespread and they expect more. OS is yet to reach maturity, still plenty of scope to add value without cluttering the experience.

From: Just Murray <krismurray@gmail.com>
To: "iPad@yahoogroups.com" <iPad@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, 24 April 2013 2:53 PM
Subject: Re: [iPad] Re: Win8
 
Whoa. While correct the real money is in think different and create rather than copy and improve marginally. 

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On Apr 23, 2013, at 2:19 PM, Charles Carroll <911@learnasp.com> wrote:
His kids can not own iPods for example. You can't copy and improve on what you don't use and don't respect.

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