Useit.Com: Avoiding Commodity Status. However, industrial design is not the main road ahead for computers. Improved software design is much more important. This does require some thinking, and it's not Steve Job's strategy, but I believe that software innovations are the main way to differentiate both high-tech products and websites. [Tomalak's Realm]
Quote : 'Much has been made of the flat-panel display on the new iMac, but the use of anti-aliased typefaces in Windows XP is the true revolution in screen design this year.'
What's all this about? Am I missing the point here? Is the writer trying to say that there's something different about the way XP uses anti-aliased type compared with the Apple implementation in OS X, or is he claiming that XP 'pioneered' its use? Perhaps it's the former, since there's a very strange statement to the effect that XP's anti-aliasing isn't possible on CRT monitors. I'm confused!
Leaving aside the gratuitous sideswipe at Steve Jobs, the article comes across as wooly in its thinking -- e.g. turning on Clear Type saves the user $2,000. Huh?
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