Ouch, what if Microsoft designed the iPod box

February 27, 2006 By

Just saw this on Channel 9′s forums: what if Microsoft designed the iPod box. It’s a video. It hurts. Ouch.

How do you improve yourself? 1) Be honest with yourself about what you do. 2) Repeat.

Honesty hurts. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch.

I’m off to New York. Behave yourselves!

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  • http://felixd.wordpress.com/ felixd

    honesty is bad words, how about the dream world, it is so comfortable, what to da with believes , hopes, faith…

  • http://felixd.wordpress.com/ felixd

    honesty is bad words, how about the dream world, it is so comfortable, what to da with believes , hopes, faith…

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  • Sebhelyesfarku

    “Goebbels” you are a retard. The iPoo’s “equaliser” is a joke and of course it distorts, you’re right. However a real parametric equaliser (like the one in e.g. the Rio Karma) allows to decrease specific frequencies not just overdrive like the iPoo does. And it’s for compensating for the differences in head/earphones, it’s not an “amateur” thing. Of course the iPoo is an amateur fashion item acting like a music player that can’t even play tracks gaplessly.

  • Sebhelyesfarku

    “Goebbels” you are a retard. The iPoo’s “equaliser” is a joke and of course it distorts, you’re right. However a real parametric equaliser (like the one in e.g. the Rio Karma) allows to decrease specific frequencies not just overdrive like the iPoo does. And it’s for compensating for the differences in head/earphones, it’s not an “amateur” thing. Of course the iPoo is an amateur fashion item acting like a music player that can’t even play tracks gaplessly.

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  • http://www.podzone.co.uk/news roanne vista

    Haha, this is funny… but I guess:
    “Jokes are really half-meant.” I wonder what that other half of the truth is?

  • http://www.podzone.co.uk/news roanne vista

    Haha, this is funny… but I guess:
    “Jokes are really half-meant.” I wonder what that other half of the truth is?

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  • Steve Holland, KD4TTC

    I wonder if the reason Apple has better graphic design might be that they are smaller. A smaller company has a smaller design staff, so fewer people are there and they all know the products. With a small design team they can have a standard look to work off, which saves time for a small team, and provides a graphic cohesiveness among the products.

    There is a comment about computer design regarding the Cray Supercomputers of a few decades ago: After CDC produced the CDC 6600 designed by Seymour Cray, I.B.M.’s chairman Thomas J. Watson Jr., wrote a memo to his staff noting that the 6600 team totaled only 34 people, “including the janitor,” and asked how I.B.M. had let such a small team offer the world’s most powerful computer. The answer is simply that a small team can do things in an elegant way that a large team cannot.

    It is interesting that both Cray and Jobs have a design ethic to simplicity. There are volumes of information available about Cray on the Web. http://www.businessweek.com/1989-94/pre88/b31571.htm is one example. Understanding Cray’s work and design vis a vi IBM has a number of parallels to Microsoft and Apple.

  • Steve Holland, KD4TTC

    I wonder if the reason Apple has better graphic design might be that they are smaller. A smaller company has a smaller design staff, so fewer people are there and they all know the products. With a small design team they can have a standard look to work off, which saves time for a small team, and provides a graphic cohesiveness among the products.

    There is a comment about computer design regarding the Cray Supercomputers of a few decades ago: After CDC produced the CDC 6600 designed by Seymour Cray, I.B.M.’s chairman Thomas J. Watson Jr., wrote a memo to his staff noting that the 6600 team totaled only 34 people, “including the janitor,” and asked how I.B.M. had let such a small team offer the world’s most powerful computer. The answer is simply that a small team can do things in an elegant way that a large team cannot.

    It is interesting that both Cray and Jobs have a design ethic to simplicity. There are volumes of information available about Cray on the Web. http://www.businessweek.com/1989-94/pre88/b31571.htm is one example. Understanding Cray’s work and design vis a vi IBM has a number of parallels to Microsoft and Apple.

  • http://www.watchanddown.com/ videos

    What a terrific piece. Thank you.

  • http://www.watchanddown.com videos

    What a terrific piece. Thank you.

  • Chris

    Ok i run a os x pannel on a vista pc,what whe say friends nothing k;) The 32 version works fine:)
    Thx btw ill never sheet whit that one’s for me only mac counts,win sucks ok!

  • Chris

    Ok i run a os x pannel on a vista pc,what whe say friends nothing k;) The 32 version works fine:)
    Thx btw ill never sheet whit that one’s for me only mac counts,win sucks ok!

  • http://www.gobignetwork.com/profiles/Chris-Hutcherson.aspx Chris Hutcherson

    I think I could lose the Nano 4, its just too light. Anyone else agree that these things are getting too light?

  • http://www.gobignetwork.com/profiles/Chris-Hutcherson.aspx Chris Hutcherson

    I think I could lose the Nano 4, its just too light. Anyone else agree that these things are getting too light?

  • http://www.dsoftsystems.com/ Billin

    I thought Microsoft are good to copy things :-) just killing.
    Apple good design is not because they small, you don’t call 10000 employees small. It’s the organization that provide the means to be that efficient.

  • http://www.dsoftsystems.com Billin

    I thought Microsoft are good to copy things :-) just killing.
    Apple good design is not because they small, you don’t call 10000 employees small. It’s the organization that provide the means to be that efficient.

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