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Ahruman

Re:Apple iPad rival HP Slate sees demand fizzle at 9,000 units on Wednesday November 17, 2010 @04:03AM (#1913540)
Wow. I’m not sure how to put this without it coming off as a personal attack, but I really have to say it. Please be assured that I have no personal grudge against you; it’s not like I know you or anything.

Numerous tablets were made before the iPad. They were all completely unusable. They were all “designed” by people with your mindset.

If someone asked you to design the first sofa, you’d suggest bolting three kitchen chairs together and letting the client choose what type of bolt to use. The resulting “design” would be inevitably awful, because it isn’t designed at all – rather than examining the phase space of possible solutions, it examines what you happen to have lying around on the workbench.

Having no sense of design isn’t a great personal failing. I’m not much of a designer myself. Everyone’s bad at something – most things, in fact. Not realizing you don’t have it can be a problem, though.