Not the most stupid strawman non-argument in the history of debate, please.
Just because problem B also exists doesn't mean problem A should be ignored. So unless there is a causal link between smoking and motor vehicles, you're just being a troll.
I want by default a person-centric interface instead of a delivery-method-centric interface.
Are you sure you want that, or does it just sound like a cute idea?
I have an interest in HCI even though I'm not an expert. But one of the things you learn quickly in that area is that what people say they would find easy to use and what they actually find easy to use are quite often different things.
In a person-centric interface, you burden your brain with remembering individual data points, instead of having one rule that it needs to remember and can apply to everything. There's a lot of research that indicates that the second is the better choice.
If your company relies on the CEO to be the final QA, you have a bigger problem.
Other companies would kill for having the problems that Apple had during the past decade. So your point is?
I really, really welcome them.
I frankly don't care if you want to kill yourself, now or over time with smoking. But you are poisoning the same air I am breathing and that bothers me. And anything that can solve that is fantastic.
You, Sir, have no idea what the heck you are talking about.
You still think that technology matters, but it frankly doesn't, or very little. It's not who has the coolest widgets, it is who can make it work.
All the PDAs at that time, all of them, without exception, were toys. Average people wouldn't touch one with a ten foot pole. Heck, I'm an IT guy and I considered them barely useable. In fact, for serious stuff I even moved back to paper and pen.
The iPhone was, above all, useable. No, more then that, it was a pleasure to use. That's why it essentially started the smartphone market even though smartphones had been around for quite a while already.
aiming for further ones, like 720p video recording.
That's what I mean.
Why in all hells would I want a watch that does video recording? Or Facebook? Or messaging?
You completely missed the point. It's not about having anything for free-as-in-free-beer. I'm quite willing to pay for my Internet access. I'm just not ok with everyone who thinks he's a big honcho messing with it.
Oh, I don't doubt that there are elements within the state that I wouldn't want to mess with.
But they are rarely the government.
I'm not so quick in discounting them, even though the effect of Steve's passing has been quite obvious.
But Apple never was a one-man show, even though he took the spotlight. From all I know, Steve's strength was not in designing or creating anything, but in inspiring others and, most importantly, his ability to cut through the crap to the core issues and to kill anything that sucked. Where other companies spend time and resources on bad products (and sometimes even bring them to market), Steve would just kill it brutally with a few words and everyone could go back to making something good.
The only possible interpretation of any research whatever in the `social sciences' is: some do, some don't. -- Ernest Rutherford