There is no mandatory user tutorial for the iPad.
True, sometimes you need to teach the user to do something, but if you're forcing this even for basic usage, you're doing it wrong (unless this was a really specific tool/procedure, and even then)
True, sometimes you need to teach the user to do something, but if you're forcing this even for basic usage, you're doing it wrong (unless this was a really specific tool/procedure, and even then)
Microsoft did not build a bad OS by any means. As someone who can take this learning curve, I really enjoy using it on a tablet (I think it's much superior than iOS and superior to Android when it comes to the core OS), and I also like its Metro features a lot on my desktop. What Microsoft did very wrong however is building this interface for an audience where the overwhelming majority is not willing to take this learning curve. It's simply not built for the "average user".
Or better said: "The most powerful tools that don't care for user experience often require a lot of 'teaching'"
Unless you're talking about something like a CNC machine, Electronic test equipment, EEC machine, etc
'It's simply not built for the "average user"'
No? Then they shot themselves in the foot, because Windows is associated with that, more than anyone. Hence, they can't complain it's not selling well.
It's very easy to shy from making things easy to use behind "it has more features".
I guess he meant tank or nuke or something ;)
That is also why people often say the Windows 8 UI works well with touch, but is unusable with mouse and keyboard. The inherent usability characteristics are actually not hugely different between input methods, it's just that with touch there's not as much competition in people's heads from an entrenched existing model.
Cleverly subtle.
Swipe with finger to scroll, tap to press, and even pinch-to-zoom are as basic interaction as interaction goes. You only need a second to get them if shown, and most people can even discover them instantly without being shown.
It's actually an action you might not even use at all -- since you can do it in another way (home and click the app you want to open next).
It's not a common action since using apps is mostly a seggregated affair. Now you use this, after some time you go and use that. You don't usually flip from one to the next all the time.
Can't speak for cats as I don't have one.
I keep seeing this idea around Win 8 discussions. You aren't compelled to buy it.
So a company no longer offers a product you like, that doesn't mean you have to buy something you don't like from them.
Even if you do have to buy, you make the choice - Win 8 and trade offs or Mac or Linux or Chromebook or second hand Win 7. It's not compulsory that you have Win 8.