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interesting.

I love clever marketing. I wish I was a more clever marketer.

Again, I agree, I like it too. But so much about Apple has been making the aesthetics easy. Just look at how obsessive their Human Interface Guidelines are. They are intended for developers to ensure that good design is integral to how a user experiences software.

Apple used to invent a new and better Drill. I agree, design for the sake of things is a pain. Just think touch screens in Cars (rolling eyes emoji). That is bad design disguised as evolution of interaction. New better design is like invention. Obscure until discovered, then seemingly obvious when found.

I like Obsidian. I prefer it to notion too. I think like Obsidian. But, there has to be a more aesthetic option than Obsidian that does not involve Notion's online and therefore limiting and slow database architecture.

Do you think Notes is as good as it could be, in terms of the marriage of aesthetics and function?

My app presents just an alternative, its free, and there are screenshots on the app store. It is my response to my own criticisms of Apple. You can decide for yourself if you think I have achieved any goals. There is a website for the app if you are android.

But, my bigger frustration with Apple remains, that it no longer seems to prioritise the miraculous simplicity that obsessive and meticulous design can bring. It has become, as I said in a previous reply, the WhatsApp of the computer world. Play it safe. Don't upset ANYONE apart from shareholders who "know" what works.

But actually, you should read this...

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2022/jan/opinion-phonics-teaching...

Maybe. I think there is some real insight in this viewpoint.

I think there was a time, long ago, that I justifiably believed that some of Apple's design was forward thinking. But, I think they are now more like WhatsApp, who apparently have a unit that is charged with ensuring that the UI does not change for fear of unsettling users.

I think this translates to - 'Apple has to play it safe as it is too big a company to make risky changes'. Ie, it can no longer do revolutionary things for fear of a collapse in faith of the consumer masses rather than the avidly convinced first adapters.

Does anyone else remember being evangelical about literally every Apple design decision?

Has anyone read Karp's book? It seems to have been a brochure for this.

This is useful. Thank you.

so cool

So clever. I gave a UI idea to think about... What about instead of having to click to choose a calculator, have some of the most popular ones load automatically at the top are of the site, so users can directly perform those calculations without having to navigate to another page.

I miss those "extra" icons mac used to have.

( i like it)

Ok - this is too brutally honest.

good idea

so cool

Nice. I go to cafes that always have different beans, and some are really good. I'm going to try this with the beans I end up liking from the single coffees vs the bags which I rarely buy.

Could save a lot of arguments and wasted time with this.

If Sony mastered interface, a GUI for music rearrangement, they could have stopped the iPod and iTunes in its tracks. Apple took away some of the freedom that managing discs and tapes gave, with the upshot of a proper visual interface.

Minidiscs, now those are my nostalgic weaknesses. I weighed up between DAT and Minidiscs, and they were just made for portable recording and listening; and they looked so cool. The players were amazingly designed also. They gave a lot of freedom. Excellent compression and digital line-in recording meant that they were so so much better than tape. I used one until I got the iPod shuffle Stick thing and a proper iPod.

Do they even know they're lying?

thanks for this: I know for next time.

Wow, thanks for this, Ill give it a read.

Lol Emoji

Are LLMs really just glorified Magic 8 Balls?

cool, some chromium forks forget to add the support. Thanks

Does it support MP4 playback?

If you share an email address, I think I could send you a code that lets you have it for free; you wont need to buy in that case.