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Posts tagged apple in Jan, 2008

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Heavier than Air. Charles Miller points out that every time Apple breaks the mold with a new product (the iPod, the iPod Mini, the iMac and now the MacBook Air) they lose in feature matrix comparisons but win in the marketplace.

# 22nd January 2008, 1:32 am / apple, charles-miller, imac, ipod, ipodmini, macbookair

Poorly Macbook, ineffective error message design. Nat’s MacBook died the other day, throwing out some impressively meaningless error symbols. How exactly are you meant to Google for a circle with a line through it?

# 13th January 2008, 11:31 pm / apple, errors, google, macbook, natalie-downe, searchability, usability

The strain due to the fact that most business desktops are locked into the Microsoft platform, at a time when both the Apple and GNU/Linux alternatives are qualitatively safer, better, and cheaper to operate, will start to become impossible to ignore.

Tim Bray

# 3rd January 2008, 1:08 pm / apple, linux, microsoft, osx, predictions, tim-bray, windows