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Re:Jony Ive’s Mistakes: When Beautiful Design Is Bad Design by sulam on Sunday July 14, 2019 @09:24PM (#20437423)
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.

Re:Jony Ive’s Mistakes: When Beautiful Design Is Bad Design by darkpuma on Monday July 15, 2019 @12:47AM (#20438208)
Refined yes, featureful no.