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Re:Doctorow: Why I won't buy an iPad by bitwize on Friday April 02, 2010 @03:22PM (#1237282)
Change scares users. By forcing developers into one consistent UI, Apple has done the correct thing from a user-friendliness standpoint.

* Want a consistent interface? Shut the fuck up and write some code.*

This approach leads to the exact opposite of a consistent UI. Look at desktop Linux.

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Re:Doctorow: Why I won't buy an iPad by jrockway on Friday April 02, 2010 @05:12PM (#1237587)
It's consistent for whoever wrote it.

If you want your definition of consistent, you are going to have to write your own software.

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Re:Doctorow: Why I won't buy an iPad by gfodor on Friday April 02, 2010 @06:20PM (#1237728)
Is this a serious comment? If you write your own software towards your own definition, then, by definition, others have different definitions, thereby making things inconsistent.
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Re:Doctorow: Why I won't buy an iPad by kilps on Saturday April 03, 2010 @12:54PM (#1238827)
The correct solution for Android would be for Google to release UI guidelines (perhaps these exist, I don't know) - but don't stop developers from innovating and then letting the users decide what is best.
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Re:Doctorow: Why I won't buy an iPad by papachito on Friday April 02, 2010 @06:54PM (#1237780)
> This approach leads to the exact opposite of a consistent UI. Look at desktop Linux.

Ever looked at the KDE desktop? It's much more consistent than both osx and windows.

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