Re:Jony Ive’s Mistakes: When Beautiful Design Is Bad Design
by sulam on Sunday July 14, 2019 @09:24PM
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People also tend to forget that it was incredibly refined already in v1. I remember hooking it up to my car and being super impressed that I could pick whether I wanted sound to go to the car, my phone, or my headphones. Each makes sense in a different context, but other products at the time assumed that as long as there was a BT connection available it should use that. They also clearly did some great usability work on touch targets. I could tap on links in web pages and it would do the right thing. Other phones, even if they had a decent browser (they didn’t), forced me to hunt for the magic touch target.
Blackberries were good at email, but otherwise they lost to Apple badly.
Blackberries were good at email, but otherwise they lost to Apple badly.