Comments on: Apple UI Nitpicking

By: Kelson

Kelson — Sun, 04 May 2008 01:47:20 +0000

A hobby? I know! I can surf the internet looking for random people, then make disparaging comments on their personal blogs! Does that sound like a better use of my time?

By: blanknull

blanknull — Sat, 03 May 2008 20:57:31 +0000

who has time to worry about this stuff? get a hobby.

By: Kelson

Kelson — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 04:22:07 +0000

I’m fully aware of why it does this, and described it in the original post, right below the screenshot.

It’s still bad design, like a program that only looks at the last digit when deciding how to create an ordinal number, and prints out the “11st” (elevenst) “12nd” (twelvend) and “13rd” (thirteenerd). You can tell what they meant, but it’s sloppy. It’s particularly ironic for a company that prides itself on its UI design.

By: David

David — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:11:51 +0000

It is like this because on the Mac Apple Updater, that part of the window is covered by the progress bar the entire time and status messages show up also covering the headline. Because Apple Software Update is originally Mac software, I don’t blame Apple at all. Its just one of those kind of funny things that happened as a result of the OS wars.

By: Martin

Martin — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 19:56:20 +0000

This should of course have been filed under Viruses, being about the “Apple Software Update”-worm/spyware/malware that infest not only those arbitrary play thingies (”Mac”) but also the working tools of serious information workers, the ibm-compatible pc’s

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 03:02:31 +0000

This is quite a amateur mistake… sad.

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