Comments on: Sidekick Issue Ushers in New Tech Terms

By: Luscious

Luscious — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:13:10 +0000

Now I know why TMO went with Catherine Zeta Jones instead of Chuck Norris. ;)

By: Decade

Decade — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:41:45 +0000

What makes this time special? Other than the built-in difficulty of backing data off the Danger servers onto your own computer.

What the PC industry needs is not knowhow, but the ability to make difficulty decisions about interface, so that they are easy to use. Too many times, the developers cop out by making lots of options, and then Joel Spolsky complains about bizarre shut down menus in Vista and Nate Anderson complains about bizarre controls on the Zune HD.

Now, Apple is pretty good about making good interfaces, even if they have to use weird software design choices such as hard-linked directories. They just need to work on not having horrible data loss bugs.

Apple’s user interface design process is publicly documented, and some Apple alumni replicate it with some success, such as the Pre. The PC industry needs to learn something from Apple’s design processes, and not just ape their hardware.

By: James Kendrick

James Kendrick — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:28:30 +0000

He turned at the last moment. :)

By: tal

tal — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:09:26 +0000

the “kick me” sign on the picture should be on his side ;)

By: turn.self.off

turn.self.off — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:26:16 +0000

sadly, in this knowhow starved time, whats needed is a one button solution that copies the data onto multiple inexpensive media that can be moved to a different read/write hardware if the original fails.