"Walter Bright" <newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote in message news:i5nco0$1bp...@digitalmars.com... > Nick Sabalausky wrote: >> That's all I can think of. Certainly nothing from Apple since Woz left, >> and that's the company most people try to point to as a shining example >> of alleged "polish". > > All I can say is you need to look at the product before it was polished to > see if progress was made during the polishing process. Looking at just the > end result doesn't tell much.
The pre-release iterations are completely irrelevant. If the end result is something with nearly-zero tactile feedback, super-ultra-hyperly-modal interface, and can't be turned off with the "power" button, but only by holding "Up" for five seconds, or has tiny ui elements that can't be accessed with a stylus or fingernail but is far too small to do reliably with a finger, or is a closed-locked-down-platform, or is branded as being a PDA-like device but still doesn't support something as basic as copy-paste that PalmOS devices already had nearly ten years prior even in smartphone form (Handspring Treo), then yes, the polish is crap no matter how much crappier the early iterations were. Apple's "polish" exists as nothing more than aesthetic-oriented graphic design, and it fools most people.