Tag: design
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A week with the new MacBook Air 11″
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Andrew Orlowski
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The Cube: Apple’s daftest, strangest romance
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Andrew Orlowski
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Ten years ago on Sunday, Apple called it quits on one of its oddest products ever, the G4 Cube. The Cube was a strange and wonderful machine that continues to fascinate today – but it was widely perceived to have failed. Some people thoroughly enjoyed the failure, thinking it served Apple right.
Dull people will always cheer a bold experiment that goes wrong. After July 2001, Apple’s design team never again attempted anything as daring or distinctive. It has produced … Read More
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The next mobile UI (why nobody has a clue)
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Andrew Orlowski
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How things have changed. Fifteen years ago attendees at a select mobile conference might have been found sparring over spectrum allocation and control channels. Back then, 3G loomed large, and huge geo-political battles were being fought. Today the talk is – how do you make it all work nicely?… Read More
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Three things to improve Nokia Design
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Andrew Orlowski
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Rather like the old Soviet Politburo, the goal is internal conformity, rather than exciting and surprising the punter.Read more at The Register… Read More
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Why Android won’t worry RIM and Apple
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Andrew Orlowski
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My US colleagues are regulars on John C Dvorak’s excellent Cranky Geeks and a highlight of the show. I was recently intrigued to hear the opinion from Vulture West Coast (in Episode 232) that RIM was toast, and Android would triumph. Now, bearing in mind that I’ve been wrong about mobile more than I’ve been wrong about anything else – quite epically and unheroically wrong – I beg to differ.
Apple will continue to rule the roost, dictating terms and … Read More
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Why has Thunderbird turned into a turkey?
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Andrew Orlowski
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A while ago I wrote an old bugger’s whinge about the state of email clients in general. I realise this is now a minority interest.Read more at The Register… … Read More