Langer
01-06-2009, 04:53 PM
GONE IS THE AGE OF THE ROTARY PHONE - UPON US IS THE NEW AGE OF ROTARY COMPUTING
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Here's Apple taking a step in the right 'intentions' but ultimately a step in the wrong direction.
There is a formula that governs an interfaces 'ease of use' or 'intuitiveness' - it pretty much goes:
1button with 1function = %100 efficient.
Each additional function exponentially decreases its level of intuitive use by the uninformed user.
The keyboard as we know it then is incredibly inefficient with ~115keys governing just about every function possible on your PCs. So there is no doubting that we need to loose the keyboard and mouse - I work every day on solutions that will do just that... but what Apple did is just too much.
Here we go:
Apple is thinking the other way... just like most of their products (especially their software) they got the right idea but they fuck up the application of the idea.
Apple must have said "hmm... 1button = easy to use... only 1button afterall" - which is flawed thinking from the get-go.
They've actually decided to replace the keyboard with a ipod style scroll wheel.
here is the link to the article in Engadget (http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/05/macbook-wheel-revealed-by-the-onion-news-network/)
Goodthing it's a joke. =)
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Here's Apple taking a step in the right 'intentions' but ultimately a step in the wrong direction.
There is a formula that governs an interfaces 'ease of use' or 'intuitiveness' - it pretty much goes:
1button with 1function = %100 efficient.
Each additional function exponentially decreases its level of intuitive use by the uninformed user.
The keyboard as we know it then is incredibly inefficient with ~115keys governing just about every function possible on your PCs. So there is no doubting that we need to loose the keyboard and mouse - I work every day on solutions that will do just that... but what Apple did is just too much.
Here we go:
Apple is thinking the other way... just like most of their products (especially their software) they got the right idea but they fuck up the application of the idea.
Apple must have said "hmm... 1button = easy to use... only 1button afterall" - which is flawed thinking from the get-go.
They've actually decided to replace the keyboard with a ipod style scroll wheel.
here is the link to the article in Engadget (http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/05/macbook-wheel-revealed-by-the-onion-news-network/)
Goodthing it's a joke. =)