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Love or Hate Apple, one thing I've always admired is their focus on directing the user to perform actions. It's (usually) very obvious how one goes about doing obvious things.
However, lately I'm finding more and more cases where usability is worse than it has been. The Calendar on iOS is a huge backward step, the disappearing browser controls on Safari mobile, and the not-obvious Spotlight in iOS.
The latest thing I've found just has ben scratching my head.
Hands up who can find the link to download safari: http://www.apple.com/safari/[^]
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Download ? Don'T you have to buy it and it comes over SnailMail on a design-shaped DVD ? After all, it's an Apple product.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Can't find it either.
Moving on.
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Easy: It's right there[^]
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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I can't even see it in Opera's links tab. Weird.
Reminds me of the SUPER ©[^] video converter download page(s), which are so far away from desirable UX that they're not even in the alphabet.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: download page(s), which are so far away from desirable UX
Not talking about the UI of the app itself. The design is about as bad as the software is awesome. (Mind you, I prefer it this way around).
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Rage wrote: The design is about as bad as the software is awesome.
My thoughts exactly.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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...Because they are busy selling you their stuff.
And I thought providing the different links to download different browsers is Microsoft's job. 
But I like the new Twitter feed integration with Safari.
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I have submitted the feedback. I guess they are secretly planning to launch Mac App store for Windows. 
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Chris Maunder wrote: has ben scratching my head
Why is Ben scratching your head?
I have to agree the usability has gone downhill. My uodate icon currently has several updates that need to be loaded, A couple that I've installed have had me restoring my iPod touch from a backup. I need to google what each update breaks prior to installing.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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Now seriously, is there any download link somewhere ?
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Nope. Not on that page, anyway.
You probably have to install itunes to get it.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Racist discovers he is Black[^]
However, it should be pointed out that we all have African ancestry.
It is also an oddity but virtually all the indigenous white people in Britain have some black African ancestry.
Black people have been living in Britain since at least Roman times, possibly before, (indeed, the Emperor Severus was a Black African who died in York after failing to invade Scotland).
So for anyone who is white to be a Supremacist not only shows stupidity and contemptuous intolerance, but also woeful ignorance of their own history.
I am not above pettiness, but I cannot abide racism, or the French.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Dalek Dave wrote: I cannot abide racism, or the French.
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Dalek Dave wrote: I cannot abide racism, or the French.
I agree, all extremists should be shot dead.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
modified 12-Nov-13 7:41am.
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I hate all generalisations.
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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You should never use absolutes.
speramus in juniperus
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I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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Also avoid alliterations. Always.
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Eschew verbose prolixity!
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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"According to Mr Cobb they have been willing sellers who support his belief that like-minded people should be able to live together."
Well, if he wants to create a concentration camp for undesirables, I say that we let him get on with it.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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When I think about all the beautiful women and all the colors and styles (hair, eyes, etc.), I can't comprehend why any male with a mg of testosterone could possibly be a racist. Sexist, maybe (I want them all) but . . . well, I just don't get it.*
* This opening about 'getting it' was deliberate - have fun.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Well, actually, racism and attraction can co-exist. African-Americans come in all sorts of skin tones that you won't find in Africa, and this goes back long before abolition.
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Dalek Dave wrote: I am not above pettiness, but I cannot abide racism, or the French.
I don't think the French are considered 'white' are they?
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What has ethnicity got to do with race?
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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