by Paul,
on 4/26/2007.
iPhone design flaws, part "it's not all in my head"
Woohoo! This guy agrees with me about the iphone! Of course he is far more elequent than i. This is my favorite part:
Basically the iPhone is a 1996 Ford Taurus — that car in which all design problems, from logo to windscreen, were solved with an Illustrator-stretched oval.
and by "far more elegant" i can only assume you mean "arbitrarily sesquipedalian"...
... look that one up.
The overall point is that the apple aesthetic is losing it's cool. I agree.
Also, he makes a good point about how the interaction with the software makes you like the hardware (like how you might find a ugly person attractive because of how you two click, even though heshe's clearly not great-looking*). There are likely several styles to create the hardware that are 'cooler' and 'more attractive' and still as well integrated with the software.
*you just can't pass a so-terribly-innapropriate metaphor like that up.
Paul, I predict that your inside beauty vs. outside beauty comparison to software vs. hardware will be a children's book/fable in the future. It will be called "mac and me" or "how I learned to stop hating my iphone and started to wish it had more slots."
...or not.
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