Apple Never Designed the iPad - They Undesigned it

Re:Apple Never Designed the iPad - They Undesigned it by Legion on Thursday December 08, 2011 @11:32AM (#3329743)

There's plenty of use of the color black, rectangular shapes, rounded corners, and centered screens in the "before iPad" group.

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Re:Apple Never Designed the iPad - They Undesigned it by bergie on Thursday December 08, 2011 @11:37AM (#3329766)

In general, the tablet design language seems to have evolved over time. Here are the four pre-iPad generations of Nokia's internet tablets:

770 (2005): http://www.flickr.com/photos/bergie/231781513/

N800 (2007): http://www.flickr.com/photos/bergie/399708279/

N810 (2007): http://www.flickr.com/photos/bergie/2290709295/

N900 (2009): http://www.flickr.com/photos/bergie/4706326072/

In those pictures you can also see some common tablet features like on-screen keyboards, video chat, maps, and even augmented reality.

All of the Nokia tablets came with a stylus but were mostly used with fingers. The stylus was handy for web browsing - for example, on the iPad I have to zoom HN quite a bit before I can reliably hit the up/down voting buttons.

At some point Nokia even introduced a feature where the UI elements would sense whether you're using stylus or finger, and would size themselves accordingly.

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Re:Apple Never Designed the iPad - They Undesigned it by falling on Thursday December 08, 2011 @01:04PM (#3330235)

> for example, on the iPad I have to zoom HN quite a bit before I can reliably hit the up/down voting buttons.

This is because HN's design and HTML code suck. It's unreadable and inconvenient on laptops too.

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Re:Apple Never Designed the iPad - They Undesigned it by bergie on Thursday December 08, 2011 @01:23PM (#3330348)

Sure, but it isn't by far the only website with small hit areas

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Re:Apple Never Designed the iPad - They Undesigned it by peritpatrio on Friday December 09, 2011 @03:03AM (#3333021)

That's why I use this:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/oieefcckcbbgniifdh...

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Re:Apple Never Designed the iPad - They Undesigned it by vecter on Thursday December 08, 2011 @11:44AM (#3329810)

And they all run Windows with a stylus. No capacitive touch screen, no custom app-based OS. It's a qualitative difference.

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Re:Apple Never Designed the iPad - They Undesigned it by D_Drake on Thursday December 08, 2011 @11:57AM (#3329868)

Incorrect. Once capacitive screens that could detect a finger were invented, they were immediately incorporated into tablet PCs. Many tablets incorporated an active digitizer underneath a resistive one, allowing both fingers and styli. As for a custom app-based OS, look no further than any tablet running Windows Mobile, like the HTC Shift X9500.

http://pastebin.com/6NKYY3Bf

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Re:Apple Never Designed the iPad - They Undesigned it by drdaeman on Thursday December 08, 2011 @04:14PM (#3331158)

Mis-pasted wrong link?

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Re:Apple Never Designed the iPad - They Undesigned it by freehunter on Thursday December 08, 2011 @04:28PM (#3331217)

I don't think the design patent covers the software or even the hardware. It's about looks, exclusively.

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