Apple has always taken great pride in the elegant design and intuitive user interface of all of its products. The iPod is beautiful. The new iPhone is a piece of art. No buttons...because buttons are hard wired and can't change. Everything is touch screen controlled.
User Interface design matters...a lot!
Engadget is at MacWorld and is covering it with multiple blogs. Ryan Block is covering the keynote speech. Chris Ziegler is covering the iPhone...with pictures. In this case a picture is truly worth a thousand words. Here are a few from Engadget.
the touchpad seems so obvious in retrospect. Are we all morons for not thinking of this? Aside from the elegance in using it, someone finally figured out a way to provide a large screen without having a massive phone (to make room for the keypad.
Posted by: chris | January 09, 2007 at 07:24 PM
It is a piece of science ;-)
The videos at http://www.apple.com/iphone/ are even better than pictures.
Posted by: Lloyd Budd | January 09, 2007 at 08:45 PM
You ever tried typing on a small virtual keyboard with no tactile feedback?
Bad input mechanisms and being too large will make this a Newton for a new generation.
Posted by: Erik Schwartz | January 10, 2007 at 11:00 AM
I get a kick out of the one slide's last bullet, "Patented!"
Posted by: Lloyd Budd | January 10, 2007 at 08:16 PM