Apple should keep its iOS push-notification and social crap at the application level. Do NOT corrupt the OS as MS has done.

What’s the problem?

MS will still manage to make record profits because people will eat their lard ridden office cake no matter what they do. If they don’t like the MacDonalds birthday cake with yellow, red, and green icing tiles, there’s always the Windows 7 cake with tasteless icing and a dried out center.

Hahahahaha.

that of course is a death knell. when even the hack pundits turn against you, it’s over.

Vista was bad. but W8 is terrible.

There is the simplicity and elegance of a MacBook Air – or iMac – or the new ear buds – etc. Or there’s the simplicity of, “I have NO taste and know absolutely nothing about design.”

His site is ugly – and always has been. Looks like a site from 1995. Even uses the very limited color range from back then. Ugliness does not increase usability.

How closely does what is actually happening follow Steve Job’s plan and timetable for competitor ambush?

Knowing your enemy will toss out a knee jerk reaction to your carefully planned products is a strategic advantage.

That page is way too busy – it needs to be redesigned by a better designer with only a few very salient points and links to interior (less cluttered) pages. It’s like being far-sighted trying to read the phone book. Yikes!

I am having a difficult time remembering the name of the book. However the point being, as an example. Slides in a presentation should be devoid of colors and images, with respect to pleasing the eye and only to re-enforce the message.

Nielsen may be a follower of the idea that visual rhetoric detracts from what he is trying to provide, therefore his page is very simple and to the point. I have not taken the time to read it carefully.

I am just trying to provide a perspective that he actually may know what he’s talking about.

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But then he did switch from Macintosh to Windows a number of years ago…

You throw it into the trash like all the other M$ garbage!

This is what happens when you panic and have no “actual” innovative ideas. You end up calling this abortion innovation.

Unfortunately, it will not totally disappear because of Windows corporate lock-in for most cubicle drones.

Before iPhone, Windows Mobile had a large mobile OS share. After iPhone was released, Microsoft (after some “denial”) panicked, threw away their existing base of Windows Mobile customers, and put everything into Windows Phone 7, which essentially started at zero. A lot those former Windows Mobile users got an iPhone instead.

Before iPad (and after the disastrous Vista), Microsoft released the respectable Windows 7. It was headed for a good run as the successor to Windows XP, to be the long-term “standard” for Windows on the desktop.

But after iPad, Microsoft panicked again. Windows 8 is the equivalent act of throwing away their huge existing base of Windows users, in an attempt to pursue new tablet customers. A lot of those existing Windows users (many still using Windows XP) are going to get a Mac or an iPad (or both).

Apple will pick up another 5-10% of first world computer market sales as a result, and tablet sales will boom. at least 1/2 will be iPads. almost none will be the Surface.

this may prove to be Ballmer’s Waterloo.