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Old 09-12-2012, 10:26 PM   #269
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Originally Posted by SkinnyPupp View Post
I recall when the N9 design came out people were complaining that it copied nanos design

they're very similar I agree especially this new iteration by Apple brings them to an almost identical look

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Originally Posted by dangonay View Post
Wow, so clever.

Apple has never made anything in a variety of colors before. It must have been such a stretch for Apple to think of removing the scroll wheel at the bottom of an older generation Nano and making a device with nothing but screen. They had to wait for Nokia to think of a coloured surround on all four sides when Apple could only count to three.

http://media.gdgt.com/img/product/15...en-p43-640.jpg

http://cdn.electricpig.com/wp-conten...09/nano-11.jpg
Well Apple did praise Nokia for their unique and awesome design for the Lumias (which is the N9s design and its derived from the N8)

Especially in their lawsuit against Samsung, Apple even made a point to note how awesome Nokia worked on That design

so Apple certainly admires it....

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Originally Posted by dangonay View Post
I've been building PC's for 20 years now. It's always been the same. Pick a CPU/motherboard. Install your RAM. Put it into a case and mount up your drives. Install your video card. Maybe a sound card if you don't like on-board audio. Connect everything up and install your OS.

Nothing has changed in 20 years. Sure we have much faster CPU's and graphic cards, hard drives have gotten larger and cheaper, and we've gone from CD-ROM to DVD to Blu-Ray. But the basic PC has changed very little. I've built 2 new rigs the last 4 years and the only improvement was they got faster. They never gained any groundbreaking features - only a few minor updates like hard drive interfaces and USB ports.

Now think about Windows. In the last 10 years what "amazing" new features have you seen appear in Windows? Mobile OS's are getting to the same stage that Windows is - they are full-featured and there won't be a lot of "huge" features added to them.

And where do you draw the line between the OS and the App? At what point do you decide if a feature should be part of an App or the OS itself? Should you just put everything (including the kitchen sink) into the OS so that it becomes bloated? Should you make a barebones OS and rely on App developers to add the features everyone wants?

Its Apples fault, their brilliant marketing over the Iphone has a side effect and that is they have to try and live up to their own Hype and that Hype compounds year after year

that's why the Ipad3 and the Iphone5 has been so disappointing for people

you can't blame people for expecting when Apple has instilled in them the emotions to feel that way
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