Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 20th Feb 2013 09:04 UTC
John Gruber illustrates the dangers of not having a clue about history: "The utter simplicity of the iOS home screen is Apple's innovation. It's the simplest, most obvious 'system' ever designed." Thanks for playing.
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Member since:2011-05-12
You don't know what are notification bubbles? Are you sure you own an iOS device?
Ah, notifications. I guess you're a Windows user and call those balloons bubbles.
Yes, I do own iOS devices and they do show me notifications, but I've never had the urge to call them "bubbles", because they don't look like bubbles.
"You can't change icons. Apps can change them though, but it's not like they change them in to something completely different causing confusion for the user.
Waaaayyy to contradict yourself, dude.
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I see no contradiction. Reading your other comments attached to this story it seems you get confused by the calendar app showing the current date while the weather app launches the weather app.
"iOS screen looks more simple
Looks vs operates, are two different things. " [/q]
I have a number of iOS and Palm devices. You turn them on, they show icons, you press an icon, the app starts. iOS can do more, but you don't need to have this knowledge to use the device. Never mind all those extra's, the real functionality is with the applications. Take those away and the device becomes pretty useless. The iOS extras are easy to learn and there aren't that many.
IMHO the iOS screen looks more simple than the Palm one. Not that the Palm one is difficult to understand, it's quite simple too and that's a good thing.
Member since:2009-05-19
because they don't look like bubbles
Really!?!?!?!
Bubble:
http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs46/f/2009/232/9/8/Blue_Bubble_by_hallv...
Balloon:
http://www.csballoon.com/img/purplemet_balloon.jpg
iOS icons with "those" - do they look like ballons or bubbles?
http://i.stack.imgur.com/EQsS5.jpg
I see no contradiction.
Well... Maybe can and can't mean the same in your head.
Reading your other comments attached to this story it seems you get confused by the calendar app showing the current date while the weather app launches the weather app.
The operation of both contradict your claim of simplicity. Both show a number. Both numbers mean the content of the app, not part of the logo. One number does not change the other does. You get used to it(like I did), but people get used to SAP Legacy Workbench as well.
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2009-05-19
You don't know what are notification bubbles? Are you sure you own an iOS device?
Waaaayyy to contradict yourself, dude.
Looks vs operates, are two different things.