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With many tablets and phones, they never leave either. People install them and forget about them. Hell, many are a pain to remove. My old phone had the micro SD slot under the battery. I would have to take the case off, the back cover and the battery to get to it and the SIM card.
And that iPad pic, you're looking at the shielding under the display, that doesn't give an accurate idea of space. And some people get obsessed only when the topic comes up. If they only ever talked about it, then you could say they lacked perspective. |
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Well, I'll just say, ask yourself, what fruit was it in the garden that did the deed?
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There is nothing subtle about this code of conduct either. It's pretty much standard on most civil forums throughout the web. It would be a pretty sad day when a person on a forum couldn't criticize a group of people. Your inability to understand this distinction between the general and personal is your problem. And no one is going to change just to accommodate your thin skin. Quote:
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So, if you include the card slot at the beginning of the design process, you can make other components into a different shape to accommodate the added card slot. So, NO, you would not necessarily have to change the shape of the design. An iPhone can still have the same iPhone shape. It might just be a tiny bit heavier or a tiny big larger (footprint) with the card slot. But it can retain the same shape as it had before. It may not even have to have a larger footprint. Making the phone a little thicker could be the way to go to accommodate the added piece of hardware. Quote:
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The reason for this is that with so few elements to play with, every one has to be tweaked so that it is just right. When Sony designed the original Walkman, it took them weeks and weeks just to get the feel of the button just right. We're not even talking about what something looks like here. The idea was to create something that had a really satisfying feel to it that made people just want to play with it, in a compelling bubble wrap kind of way. Quote:
Most people just have a sense when something looks right. They don't necessarily know why, but sometimes something looks so right that it looks effortless. So people think, "What's the big deal? Some curves here and there, an icon grid, it's obvious". it's actually not. It's kind of design nirvana to design something so well that there looks like no other solution. This is the kind of thing that Samsung have ripped off without putting the effort in. Just like the school jerk who plays around in class and copies exam answers from the quiet nerd who has been working hard - it's stealing, and it's plain wrong. Don't misunderstand, I'm not an archetypal Apple fanboi who thinks they can do no wrong. Apple Maps is a big problem, and Siri is frankly next to useless. In terms of hardware design though, Jony Ive is a truly great designer. Because he makes stuff that is relatively cheap (in comparison to cars, boats and buildings) many people don't seem to appreciate quite how good he is. Think about it, if the iPhone were a song, and the Galaxy S3 was just as similar, would this thread have gone on quite so long? |
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I don't think this thread's life will last much longer.
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Apple's Upper West Side store, opened 2009: And Apple had the nerve to patent the UWS store design. Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, and Mies van der Rohe never patented their architecture. But somehow, Apple feels the need to patent a design that's highly derivative of I.M Pei's Louvre entrance and the Rose Center! --Pat |
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Noooo, first of all we need to get to the stage where most people just accept that in the recent court case, Samsung clearly did rip Apple off. Despite all their arguing and posturing by expensive lawyers, anyone with a pair of eyes, an open mind and a clear sense of right and wrong, and an IQ significantly greater than their shoe size ought to conclude that in that particular instance, it was pretty much a straightforward rip-off.
It doesn't make Samsung evil, it certainly doesn't mean that they are nothing more than a talentless far Eastern rip-off merchant, but it does dent their reputation very badly and they have too much at stake to just acquiesce quietly. Then I need to move on to the anti Apple bias. I'm not the sort of guy that thinks the sun shines out of their corporate backside, but some of the invective labelled against them is hypocritical, disingenuous, misleading and plain ignorant. I think we have a little while yet.. |
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