[Sigia-l] Re: Design(ers) [was: is bad design a choice?]

[Jared M. Spool]

At 02:07 PM 10/18/2005, Listera wrote:
>Do you know of *any* explanation of AAPL's success in the past 3 years
>that's attributed to anything other than the iPod?

What?!? iChat ain't doin' it for ya? ;-)

I'd love to believe that the iPod is completely responsible for everything 
right in the world. Truly I would.

I got up in front of 400 of my closest friends last week and talked about 
how iTunes+iPod is a great example of experience design. I truly believe 
that. I'll drink the Apple kool-aid as quickly as anyone. (We're actually 
considering dropping our corporate Dells for Powerbooks. Radical, no? Dave: 
how did that work for you?)

But all this Apple-love-fest is still a distraction from the conversation, 
which was about how somehow MySpace and eBay's design aren't as good and 
therefore they should be condemned by the design world. (That's the "Bad 
Choice" part of this discussion that keeps getting sideswiped.)

That's all I'm sayin'.

We can now resume our regularly-scheduled Apple worship ceremony. All hail 
the mighty Jobs...

Jared


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