[Sigia-l] Decent exposure

[tOM Trottier]

On Sunday, January 14, 2007 at 0:45,
Ziya Oz <listera at earthlink.net> wrote

> Davezilla:
> 
> > how the heck am I supposed to access those links with
> > my large, manly fingers?
> 
> iSurgery? :-)
> 
> There are two approaches to product design: risk-averse and risk-embracing.
> The former accepts the status quo and tries to make living out of it. The
> latter rejects it to make it better.
> 
> Some of us may remember that when the Mac first came out in the mid-'80s,
> those wedded to the CLI and the keyboard made fun of it, declared the GUI
> and the mouse toys. When the first iMac was introduced pundits declared it
> DOA because it didn't come bundled with a floppy drive. When the first iPod
> came out people who cannot spot a trend if their life depended on it decried
> its lack of, well, everything under the kitchen sink. This is an old refrain
> of the most pedestrian kind.

Yeah, the computer for the rest of us. The quadrant of dumb and rich. That's why it has 90% 
market share.
 
> One of the most hilarious of the 5,000 comments I read on the iPhone was the
> one from a man who declared the iPhone DOA because he couldn't download his
> favorite Java-based astrology applet on it. Intelligent Design, indeed.
> 
> If all the iPhone commentary out there is not an argument against UCD, I
> don't know what is. ;-)

UCD? Elucidate.

tOM

> Ziya
> Nullius in Verba 

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