What Apple Needs to Do Now

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Dig, however, the page-curl animation (beautifully rendered, but stick-in-the-craw wrong) in iBooks.

I have to agree. It's superfluous eye candy. I much prefer the Kindle iPad app. It's very functional and stays out of your way. BN app? What's the deal with the startup time when you call the mothership? Why does it take BN app several times longer than the Kindle? Why make me wait til it's over? Show me the darn book! The Kindle app gets all of this right.

If they include, they should at least do it well; my iPhone 3G makes it a terrible feature to have. I don't think there's a disable option, but I would love to have it.

I think that these affordances are more important for non-tech people than what techies in particular give them credit for. In order for people who prefer using the analogue equivalents, this is a great way to inspire confidence enough to rely on the computerized tools, and to see some of the advantages of having the stuff in a computer.

I think it's a phase in many ways, but an important phase nonetheless. Scaling UX to handle total newbies and hardcore experts is not a simple one, and so far examples of doing that in any way that could be considered successful are few and far between.

Just make sure you're not in the same room as John Gruber when you praise the floppy save icon in Office.

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