Comments on: On Why Apple is Bad For Design

By: barren

barren — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 21:43:01 +0000

apple, where can i start?, bad bad bad, rehash old ideas and make them look like your idea, basicly what they do. latest is face time. been around free for years any phone or puter can so it free. apple charge and make it so you can only use their stuff. only a retard would fall for their shit. 3% fools

By: raj

raj — Mon, 04 May 2009 12:39:37 +0000

hai dis isvery useful………………………

By: A rare glimpse into Apple’s design process « UserGoal

A rare glimpse into Apple’s design process « UserGoal — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:53:25 +0000

[...] A rare glimpse into Apple’s design process Peterme wrote a thoughtful piece a while back on “why Apple is bad for design” because they make it look so easy and they are so secretive about how they do it. Well one of Apple’s engineering managers allowed a rare glimpse into the Apple design process at a talk last month. His points are summarized in this BusinessWeek article. [...]

By: Gerald Buckley

Gerald Buckley — Wed, 09 May 2007 17:17:27 +0000

Peter… A very timely article serves as a fine rebuttal to your presumption of “Apple is Bad for Design”.

http://www.technologyreview.com/Biztech/18621/

Apple’s close-lipped nature isn’t to further or hamper design. They VALUE design so much it’s THEIR differentiator. Why give that up, of all things, as an Open Sourcing of the creative process!?

I’ve taken the mantle upon myself to get you to issue a retraction if you hadn’t noticed. All in good natured discussion. You’re still a genius too you know!

By: Jen B

Jen B — Tue, 08 May 2007 04:08:30 +0000

Really? Why must genius -if we agree that it is in fact genius- be punished and told it is bad? It’s a very sad day when companies cannot understand what deep commitment is needed to produce quality products whether it be pure genius or a user centered approach.

It sounds like Apple is bad for design because most projects won’t commit to that level of excellence so it makes everyone else look bad.

That sounds like Apple raises the curve.

I think raising the curve is a good thing and thus Apple is NOT bad for design.

By: gWHIZ

gWHIZ — Mon, 07 May 2007 22:05:37 +0000

Apple’s BAD For Design Because……

PUH-LEEZE! Peter Merholz, who I’ve read and followed avidly for about five months now plays right into the snark pit. Oh, the shame of it.
It wouldn’t be so bad if he hadn’t claimed, “Apple’s bad for design because they do…

By: Nicolas Cohen

Nicolas Cohen — Sun, 06 May 2007 03:09:19 +0000

Apple has done another thing against design: They focus too much on making the product "feel" good and solid an not so much on making it actually solid. They make such a good work that most people agree that apple's products have the best possible technology. But when entire years of production have known failures you must stop and think about it for a second. When you read iPods' support main keywords: "Reset. Retry. Restart. Reinstall. Restore." your eyebrows should raise at least for a few seconds. They spend a lot of time designing they're products but they still fail. MacBooks have been shipped with poor brightness, a plastic that gets the color of your hands and batteries that die (at least they are not catching fire anymore) a few weeks after you buy them. They excel in making their product desirable but forget about great design in engineering. And these products need so. Even OS X has weird issues. The other day my computer couldnt start up because the spotlight database got corrupted. i know files can get corrupted, you can only do as much to avoid that. But there's no good reason why the whole operative system should block for that. Thats not good error handling. And i've seen lots of apple's apps get slower and slower for poorly optimized logging and database files. I think design should be a global word meaning a product not only behaves and feels good but actually has solid technology inside empowering it.

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letspushthingsforward.com > log — Sat, 05 May 2007 17:28:34 +0000

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By: Just Fix It! « Bbbbblllllbbblblodschbg

Just Fix It! « Bbbbblllllbbblblodschbg — Sat, 05 May 2007 06:44:20 +0000

[...] Not that design is at all easy either, mind you – as noted in an article about Apple’s design work (also via Haddock), “hard work is lost on many, and the seeming simplicity of the end product suggests simplicity in the process.” It’s harder, not easier, to do a good, simple design. [...]

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Fri, 04 May 2007 23:02:22 +0000

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