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Title: Think Retro: Why the cute and quirky eMate was Apple’s most human product Post by: HCK on December 09, 2014, 03:00:22 pm Think Retro: Why the cute and quirky eMate was Apple’s most human product
<article> <section class="page"> <p> It’s not that I don’t like Apple’s current hardware and software, but I fondly recall the days when its computers were suffused with a chirpy, cheerful personality. Today’s slabs of aluminum and black glass are powerful, desirable, and elegant, but you could also call them austere, anodyne—perhaps even unfriendly.</p><p> It’s a world away from the Apple of the ’80s and ’90s. Then there was a playfulness—a playfulness that shaded almost into anarchy—in things as dull as error messages, even in flagship software. True, this was not always welcome, nor to everyone’s taste—Exhibit A: Clippy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Assistant)—which is probably why the practice died out as software became more professional.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2856351/think-retro-why-the-cute-and-quirky-emate-was-apple-s-most-human-product.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Think Retro: Why the cute and quirky eMate was Apple’s most human product (http://www.macworld.com/article/2856351/think-retro-why-the-cute-and-quirky-emate-was-apple-s-most-human-product.html#tk.rss_all) |