[lbo-talk] The extreme Google brain

[Bryan Atinsky]

Well, though I want to rip my hair out everytime I get one of those all 
to often BSODs, to me ugly is the creepy Apple fanboy culture, hello 
fanboys, its a friggin' machine...  Luckily the only times I had to 
enter one of the  Apple stores was to exchange my broken iPod Touch for 
a new one (the wifi wouldn't work anymore) while it was on warranty, but 
having to make an appointment at the Genius Bar with one of the 
"geniuses," the whole aesthetics of the store and the corporate cultural 
experience there was unnerving to me in some way I actually have trouble 
pinning down. And to me ugly are the crazy constrictions and loops I 
have to go through to get my music and audio books onto my iPod Touch (I 
admit that it is a beautiful form factor and for what it does, it is the 
best thing out there, which is why I suffer from the 
constrictions)...limits of how many computers you can use it on, the 
fact that it will wipe your songs if you try to update it on a computer 
that doesn't have each and every file you have on the iPod...and you 
can't use it as file storage device or do direct file transfers. And if 
one is a gamer, for practical (and monetary) reasons, the answer is 
simple, PC. All things which degrade the overall user experience in 
Apple products.

JC Helary wrote:
> http://stevenf.tumblr.com/post/101550689/office-2010-preview
>
> Everything is ugly under Windows. Except Apple software, but then 
> being on Windows makes it ugly because it does not fit into the 
> Windows standard ugliness.
>
> As the blogger writes:
>
> "There’s no question that Address Book and iCal do only 10% of what 
> Outlook can do, but somehow that 10% is 80% of what I need."
>
> Good design is about knowing what the 10% is, and not fearing to scrap 
> the remaining 90%. It takes time and money to make a successful 10% 
> product, because it must look like it does 80% of what you need, not 
> _only_ 10%.
>
>
> Jean-Christophe Helary
>