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There are two extra pixels on the left side! That's so important! The applet is nearly unusable!
Go back entering your wifi code in your appleTV (*left, left, left, down, click, right, up, up, up, click, right, down down...*, braindead.
Really, there's no need to be so reactionary. I never said anything about it being unusable; it's perfectly usable, but the design is simply inferior. If the difference between elegance and looking off lies in a few pixels, then yes, a few pixels matter. If you're seriously equating good design with usability, then...well, I guess you're perfectly happy with Ubuntu's poorly thought-out visual design!
I listed 24 reasons why the menu is off below, take a look.
Edit: I've never used Apple TV, but if it's really how you describe, then that would explain its bad market performance. I don't actually own any Apple products, but my point was more about how methodical they are in their design. I don't see the same kind of sustained effort come through in Ubuntu.
Edited 2010-10-10 21:09 UTC
Before people downvote like roving idiots, they need to actually read the entire post--yes, I'm sorry to inform you that this includes links in the post. (Ugh...reading! How laborious!)
"Pixel-perfect" here refers to Apple's design process, not to their end result. I don't even own any Apple products, and I don't really care for them at all. If you read the article, however, you'll see that they have a design method called "pixel-perfect" where final mockups are determined down to the pixel and after they're approved no one, neither engineers nor designers, deviate from the mockup by even one pixel. I admire that thoroughness and consistency, and I think that Ubuntu can use more of that.
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While you were busy being snarky, Apple put in the hard work to make a pixel-perfect product. The "You Can't Innovate Like Apple" article linked in the sidebar was very informative, and I've been keeping it in mind as I go over 10.10. See http://www.pragmaticmarketing.com/publications/magazine/6/4/you_can...