Warbrain said:
Cheap imitation until you see the disgusting layout of ports and vents on the sides.
yeah, I didn't mean that in a
positive way.
What I don't get is that other than Apple I have yet to see another maker of computer products that manages to achieve a look in their products that makes them seem to belong to the sphere of good "interior design" products - like really well designed chairs and tables (
actually Sony in some cases comes close).
With other companies all they ever seem to be able to pull off is to design a good-looking
tech product.
Most companies seem to design their (computer) products (only) for "geeks" (no negative connotation here) - that's fine, but the general population doesn't belong to that group.
Apple designs their products for (all) human beings first and foremost.
At least, that's what Apple's design means to me. It's not supposed to be seen as a "computer product" (in the original sense) but as a part of your natural living space.
edit: I just realized that I'm more or less reciting one of Sony's own press releases for this laptop ... irony ? In more than one way, probably
edit2 (I hope incessant editing isn't against the rules or something ...
- All of this just started a larger train of thought regarding Apple's whole design philosophy that would really deserve its own thread (especially since this is more about the technical side of operating system design), but I just had to add the idea here: It
feels like e.g. the Linux community approaches OS-design by putting available technical tools to use and seeing what results out of that, keeping the best results - e.g. Apple on the other hand thinks about what the results
should be and
then uses the technical tools to get there in a very efficient and clean way. I see the same thing happening in their hardware design: What kind of product do we want to achieve ? What are the best ways to get there. With some other products it seems like they put all kinds of hardware together and then started thinking about how they could make it look nice. Anyone still with me here ?
