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Re:Jony Ive’s Mistakes: When Beautiful Design Is Bad Design by Ididntdothis on Sunday July 14, 2019 @08:53PM (#20437289)
A Blackberry was probably more functional at that time but wasn't as nice as to use and look at.
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Re:Jony Ive’s Mistakes: When Beautiful Design Is Bad Design by acdha on Sunday July 14, 2019 @09:36PM (#20437476)
Whether you believe that to be true probably depends on whether you more frequently used email or the web. The Blackberry was great for messaging but the browser & other non-core apps were a bad joke.
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Re:Jony Ive’s Mistakes: When Beautiful Design Is Bad Design by bluedino on Monday July 15, 2019 @09:09AM (#20440410)
The browser was great for sites that were optimized for it. ESPN at my fingertips...that was Amazing.
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Re:Jony Ive’s Mistakes: When Beautiful Design Is Bad Design by Ididntdothis on Sunday July 14, 2019 @10:48PM (#20437756)
True. back then a mobile phone was mainly a messaging device.
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Re:Jony Ive’s Mistakes: When Beautiful Design Is Bad Design by schnable on Monday July 15, 2019 @08:20AM (#20440074)
Blackberry failed by not embracing apps. The app landscape was a mess of incompatibility, had poorly made apps, and no unified App Store. This where iOS killed Blackberry.
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