when you build a piece of technology you get to put a lot of work into it – software and hardware – to make it natural and obvious and easy to use for a human being. Then you have priced the human being at the top of the chain. If you simply put in every feature in the world and every ability and let the human being modify their normalness to learn how to use it, you place the technology higher, as the master, and the human being more as a slave.
...THIS is what differentiates iOS from Android. Apple's competitors design around features with little to no out-of-the-box human use cases supported. Apple, however, does it the other way around.
The Hyundai Genesis has got to be the greatest example of a car with a slapped-together design lacking any direction or in-house design ethos.
Take a Sachsenring P-240, a Mercedes Benz, a little Audi, and the ass-end of a BMW 5 series and you get this. It even seems as though the designers knew what an unoriginal hatchet job of Xeroxed sedan designs this is and decided not to tarnish their company's brand any further by putting the "H" logo on the hood. It's as though they want people looking at it head on to think it really is something other than Hyundai.
On Thursday, Narayen said of the episode with Apple: “Yes, the argument is over from our point of view. ” He added, “We are so excited about opportunities we have. We’re focused on that.”
An Apple spokesman didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. Jobs has endorsed an emerging standard on the Web called HTML 5, which is being developed by a consortium that Apple is a part of, alongside Google.
Narayen said Adobe now “welcomes the evolution of HTML and are actively contributing to it” with typographic and design expertise. He downplayed how much Flash contributes in revenue to Adobe, calling it just a “small part” of the company.
Narayen added: “At the end of the day, where Adobe makes its money is through our application tools, as well as our solutions, (and) being able to make that content and measure that content and manage that content.”
Translation: Adobe knows this is fight they cannot and will not win. This is a great day for the Web, and hopefully will be the first day of an era where we're not faced with a Web hobbled by plug-ins.
We have a FIAT 500. We love it. I'd like to see more models, including this beauty come state-side.
