Samsung overtakes Apple as world's most profitable mobile phone maker

Re:Samsung overtakes Apple as world's most profitable mobile... by cageface on Saturday July 27, 2013 @10:51PM (#6115408)

I'd go so far as to say that your kind of viewpoint might well be dominant inside Apple itself, and the "blind spot" it creates might be a major reason why Apple has struggled to compete against Samsung.

Bingo. Samsung doesn't have the same kind of refined, surgical design discipline that Apple does but that doesn't mean that they're incapable of coming up with interesting new features. They just arrive at them in a different way.

Honestly after using iOS 7 for a while I'm worried that Apple has seriously lost its way. There are so many instances of simplistic design ideology trumping usability in iOS 7 I'm not even sure where to start listing them. iOS < 7 was visually cheesy in some respects but it was extremely polished and usable.

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Re:Samsung overtakes Apple as world's most profitable mobile... by rdouble on Saturday July 27, 2013 @10:55PM (#6115413)

What's less usable? I was suspicious initially but after using it for weeks usability seems about the same, if not a bit improved. It does need a lot of polish, and some of the built in apps are uglier, like clock and notes.

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Re:Samsung overtakes Apple as world's most profitable mobile... by cageface on Saturday July 27, 2013 @11:56PM (#6115531)

Transparencies make things less readable. Tap targets are less obvious. Wireframe icons are harder to parse visually. Thin fonts (thankfully larger now) are harder to read. Undemarcated areas of UI make it harder to distinguish controls from content (not a feature IMO). I actually like flat design but they've taken it too far.

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