The Cycle Wherein Apple Creates a Product and People Copy It and Then ‘Improve’ Upon the Design and Then People Ask Apple to Do the Same ‘Improvements’ and Apple Doesn’t and Then People Get Mad at Apple and Apple Keeps Making More Money Than Eve
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From the comments:
> “Alice Bevan-McGregor says: If you consistently ignore the whining of the ignorant and produce a device built on a solid foundation of design, aesthetic, and usability (prioritizing working features over sheer numbers of crap features), your devices will continuously appear as magic to the unwashed, and underwhelming to the arrogant.”