You're right. Apple apps are tacky looking. I hadn't really thought about it. I just use them and like the way they work. I can add a contact on my phone and it shows up immediately on both of my computers. Same thing with notes, reminders, and calendar entries. For us oldsters, it's nice to have a visual clue for those times when we forget what we're doing:-).
On Mar 31, 2013, at 7:38 AM, "Bob W" <p...@web-options.com> wrote: > I bought an iPad yesterday, which is the first Apple product I've ever > owned, although I've used a few over the years, especially when they went > wrong for non-computer-literate friends. I'm setting it up at the moment, > and transferring various bits and pieces off the Thinkpad notebook I've been > using for the last 2 or 3 years. > > Considering the reputation they have for good design, I'm really surprised > at some of the shitey junk in Apple's apps. > > For example, at the place where I worked way back in the Windows 3 days we > used Lotus Notes for our calendar and email. The calendar had this really > awful Filofax look, with fake ring-binder clips, and pretend paper and bits > of pretend leather for the cover. It was really vile, the worst sort of > 'chartjunk', to borrow Tufte's term, and used to get a real hammering in > books on good visual design - the same books which often promoted Apple's > visual design as a standard - which described this sort of thing as > 'overbearing metaphor'. Think of Microsoft Bob > <http://toastytech.com/guis/bob.html> for another classic example, lest you > think I'm merely Apple-bashing. > > So what do I find when I start setting up my calendar and stuff on the iPad? > > > A calendar with a really awful Filofax look, with fake ring-binder clips, > and pretend paper and bits of pretend leather for the cover. It is really > vile, the worst sort of chartjunk. > > They've committed the same crime with their Contacts app, and worst of all > is their Newsstand, which has faux woodgrain shelves, believe it or not (not > that I want to use it). > > It's not even ironic post-modernism. > > Do any of the Apple junkies here know if there's a way to re-skin these apps > to something that doesn't look like it was designed by a 13-year-old? > > Cheers, > Bob > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
