"Andrei Alexandrescu" <seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org> wrote in message news:hjhl98$93...@digitalmars.com... > Nick Sabalausky wrote: >> "Andrei Alexandrescu" <seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org> wrote in message >> news:hjgopn$1i7...@digitalmars.com... >> - iPods have a Power button, but they cannot be turned off via the >> so-called Power button. They are turned off by holding "Up" for a few >> seconds. Easily wins the lifetime award for "Dumbest Interface Design >> Choice I've Ever Seen". > > http://www.macnn.com/articles/06/05/25/apple.wins.dad.awards/ > >> - How long did it take the iPhone to get basic copy/paste? (I'm not sure, >> but I know it was a ridiculously long time for such a basic feature. >> Handspring, for instance, had smartphones with copy/paste from day one, >> and that was years before the iPhone was ever announced.) > > http://www.appletell.com/apple/comment/apple-wins-eight-product-design-awards-at-cebit/ > > Brownie points for not going with the mainstream opinion. >
"Gone With The Wind" won prestigious awards too. I still hated every minute of it. > > P.S. Never heard of Handspring. They were one of the biggest manufacturers of third-party PalmOS devices (I miss PalmOS PDAs). My first PDA was a Handspring Visor. Handspring's Treo was one of the earliest smartphones, although that was before people were calling them smartphones.