{"id":1006,"date":"2010-02-01T23:17:25","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T15:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/02\/01\/its-all-about-the-interface\/"},"modified":"2010-02-01T23:17:25","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T15:17:25","slug":"its-all-about-the-interface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/02\/01\/its-all-about-the-interface","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s all about the interface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve already explained why <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/01\/28\/lemme-at-that-overgrown-iphone\">I personally think the iPad is a solid\/useful gadget for my tastes.<\/a> But of course there will always be people in the &#8220;other camp&#8221; that disagree; people who think that the tablet is utterly useless because of how &#8220;limited&#8221; it is compared to a laptop, or comparing it to the competition which &#8220;does more.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To all those who think that way, and are trying to understand why people like me think otherwise, I present to you three articles below. I believe that all the points\/concepts in these articles give a good overall picture of what people from &#8220;our side of the fence&#8221; are seeing.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/macme.org\/2010\/01\/115\">The Apple Tablet Interface Must Be Like This<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cruftbox.com\/blog\/archives\/001592.html\">A Message to the Internets regarding the iPad<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/stevenf.tumblr.com\/post\/359224392\/i-need-to-talk-to-you-about-computers-ive-been\">Old World vs. New World computing<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Bottomline is, that you can have all the bells and whistles in hardware, but your device will always be as weak as its interface. And historically speaking, choosing the best &#8220;interface metaphor&#8221; to use for different devices has always been Apple&#8217;s forte.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve already explained why I personally think the iPad is a solid\/useful gadget for my tastes. But of course there will always be people in the &#8220;other camp&#8221; that disagree; people who think that the tablet is utterly useless because of how &#8220;limited&#8221; it is compared to a laptop, or comparing it to the competition &hellip; <p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/02\/01\/its-all-about-the-interface\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It&#8217;s all about the interface&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,13],"tags":[96,594,595,600,602,1145],"class_list":["post-1006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-interface","tag-internet","tag-ipad","tag-iphone","tag-tablet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}