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iPad Pages vs. Microsoft Office
“So how will companies in the “now with more features!” business respond to Apple’s new model for simple, useful, and usable software? Spoiler Alert: they’ll ignore it and ride their market inertia gravy train straight to hell.”
Further reading:
via UX Hero by UX Hero on 3/30/10
Look at this leaked screenshot of Word 2011 for Mac:
How many pixels in that UI are for writing and how many pixels are merely about writing?
Now I want you to look at this screenshot from the demo video of Pages for iPad:
Has the difference between software for creating and software about creating ever been more obvious?
An aside: watching these iPad demos, can there be any doubt that people who said the iPad is just for consuming, not creating are suffering from shrinkwrap Stockholm syndrome?
So how will companies in the “now with more features!” business respond to Apple’s new model for simple, useful, and usable software? Spoiler Alert: they’ll ignore it and ride their market inertia gravy train straight to hell.
Further reading:
- “Desktop OSes aren’t optimized for concentration.” —Craigmod’s blog.
- iPad and the Brain by Dave Troy.
- UX Hero posts: Computers vs. Creativity, iPhone Apps: why closed is better, and Serendipity makes software fun.
