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Apple’s Jony Ive Pushing iOS Interface Team For ‘Flat’ Design

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Re: Apple’s Jony Ive Pushing iOS Interface Team For ‘Flat’ Design

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Post by sirmarksalot »

pekk wrote: post #38
x3ord wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hate to be a fanboy, but probably because they'd do an awesome job of it (where MS certainly has not).

Apple can really do no wrong. It's impossible to think of any proposal Apple could have which would not receive this response, unless it was inoculating orphans with polio or something.

Apple has done some things that infuriate me -- for example, I still haven't upgraded to iOS 6 due to the whole Maps thing. However, I think I speak for even the most jaded Apple users when I say that I trust Jony Ive's design sense implicitly.

Apple has been known to get a lot of things wrong, sometimes really important things, but never anything along these lines. I expect to be blown away.

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Post by nicholassmith »

vor_ wrote: post #45
pekk wrote: post #38

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Apple can really do no wrong. It's impossible to think of any proposal Apple could have which would not receive this response, unless it was inoculating orphans with polio or something.

Not only does Apple get criticized all the time, they get criticized the most by their own fans, as five minutes spent on any popular Apple forum would illustrate. Anyone who thinks that they get a pass for everything is intentionally ignoring both the media and the users.

One of the biggest Mac writers even has a blog and defunct podcast called Hypercritical to talk about what Apple does wrong. There's a lot of loyalty, and some blinded by it, but it's often tempered with the realisation they aren't perfect.

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Post by naz »

siamore wrote: post #60
runjake wrote: post #50

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>Apple is also hailed as genius for "inventing the tablet" even though Microsoft tried to make tablets happen for a decade before the iPad The iPad has more in common with the Newton, which came years before the Tablet PC. Tablet PCs, while great (I liked them anyway, especially with OneNote) might have been called a tablet, but it had little in common with the tablet concepts as presented in the iPad. Tablet PCs did…

>Tablet PCs didn't even get capacitive touch until after iOS devices came out. That's not true, I own a HP Tx2 which was released before the iPad and it has a capacitive touch screen it works great and before it there was the dell XT2 too.

The iPhone is an iOS device.

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Post by meerita »

skc wrote: post #7
meerita wrote: post #5

I never pay attention to those rumors. And for sure they will never copy MS or Google. They will craft something their own.

You mean like Notification Centre?

That's not a copy, that maybe you can call it… inspiration. By no means is identical in shape, color and functionality. But we're here discussing something much more higher than a single feature, we're talking about the entire GUI foundation.

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Post by siamore »

naz wrote: post #63
siamore wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Tablet PCs didn't even get capacitive touch until after iOS devices came out. That's not true, I own a HP Tx2 which was released before the iPad and it has a capacitive touch screen it works great and before it there was the dell XT2 too.

The iPhone is an iOS device.

Yeah you're right, The dell XT with capacitive touch was released in december of 2007 with a capacitive screen, the iPhone was released on june of 2007, I thought the op meant the iPad.

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Post by fdmvsh »

naz wrote: post #63
siamore wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Tablet PCs didn't even get capacitive touch until after iOS devices came out. That's not true, I own a HP Tx2 which was released before the iPad and it has a capacitive touch screen it works great and before it there was the dell XT2 too.

The iPhone is an iOS device.

There still were Tablet PCs with capacitive display before though, for example the ThinkPad X60 Tablet had an optional MultiTouch display and it came out in 2006.

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Post by Marazan »

VeejayRampay wrote: post #3

Why do I have the impression that if they go flat, they'll be hailed as geniuses and Microsoft will be forgotten forever? (This comment guaranteed 100% conspirationist and crazy)

John Gruber has already declared that Apple is at the forefront of flat design. I think he dismissively mention Microsoft once in his post on the topic.

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Post by gnaffle »

siamore wrote: post #66
naz wrote: post #63

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The iPhone is an iOS device.

Yeah you're right, The dell XT with capacitive touch was released in december of 2007 with a capacitive screen, the iPhone was released on june of 2007, I thought the op meant the iPad.

Well I did have a capacitive touch screen "tablet PC" (Panasonic Toughbook). But that's pretty much irrelevant since the UI didn't have pinches and swipes and wasn't designed primarily for use with fingers.
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