Look at that handsome bastard.
Jay Robinson
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Wednesday 3/17/2010
10:47am (21 notes)
photo; Apple; Steve Jobs; oknowthisobsessionisgettingunhealthy;
“Steve Jobs” by Susan Kare.
“Doing it with ‘Mac’… –or– “I ♥ Susan Kare”
In this television piece on the original Apple Macintosh computer, designer Susan Kare spells out user interface concepts that we take for granted now, e.g. pull down menus described as operating like “window shades”. She also explains how and why the Mac uses rich graphics to communicate with the user “so that there’s no need to translate.” Apple has been light years ahead of the competition ever since. Beautiful footage demoing the Mac OS starts in at about eighteen minutes.
By comparison, note that PC users had to wait until Windows 95 to do something as simple as naming their files with more than eight characters. Why it took the Mac so long to catch on is completely beyond me.
"Between the hours of 8:30 and 8:45 this morning, I bought two things: 1) Breakfast, consisting of a wheat bagel and a Diet Coke. Purchase price: $1.74. 2) An iPad. Which cost me more than the breakfast."
I just ordered the new magical, revolutionary product from Apple. I got my Apple iPad with 64GB WiFi, the Apple case and dock. I will buy the 3G eventually, but this should hold me over for a while.
The language at the end of the order process was very clear that the iPad would be delivered on April 3rd, which means they must be gearing up to ship millions of these bad boys.
The first Apple iPad commercial, “Meet iPad,” debuted during the Oscars tonight.
The thirty second spot features quick interactions with the device and an upbeat song called “There Goes My Love” by The Blue Van (iTunes link).
Available in HD. Enjoy.
"Whenever possible, add a realistic, physical dimension to your application. The more true to life your application looks and behaves, the easier it is for people to understand how it works and the more they enjoy using it."
Apple’s iPad Human Interface Guidelines
The beauty of full-screen glass with no visible buttons is your device magically appears as any physical object you want. Matt Gemmell has an excellent post on this as well.
"I don’t want to know about PICT files. I don’t want to know about TIFF files (I don’t. They give me the willies). I don’t want to have to worry about what file type to ask MacWrite II to save my work in so that I can get Nisus to read it and run one of its interminable macros over it. I’m a Mac user, for heaven’s sake. This is meant to be easy."
The late, great Douglas Adams, writes about his ideal computer in 1989 and inexplicably describes the iPad, the computer that lets you ignore the other stuff and simply get to work.
Oh boy howdy are you gunna look nice on my shiny new Apple Tablet!
Last time I checked, coffee did not look like that.
"‘We have no interest in being in the TV market.’ This means that Apple will either continue to stay out of the TV market, or will come out with a TV in a year and proclaim that it’s the greatest TV of all time."
Launching 10 apps at once: 200GB HDD vs 48GB SSD
Skip to 3:33 for the app launch.
