Comments on: Just A Thought on Business Culture and Design http://www.kvwong.com/2007/10/04/just-a-thought-on-business-culture-and-design/ insights from everyday observations Tue, 06 Oct 2009 05:59:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Mark Pris http://www.kvwong.com/2007/10/04/just-a-thought-on-business-culture-and-design/comment-page-1/#comment-3106 Mark Pris Fri, 29 Feb 2008 07:46:11 +0000 http://www.kvwong.com/blog/2007/10/04/just-a-thought-on-business-culture-and-design/#comment-3106 Hello, your website is very informative and useful, I would like to share with you links, send all the questions on my e-mail. Hello, your website is very informative and useful,
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]]> By: Billy Shih http://www.kvwong.com/2007/10/04/just-a-thought-on-business-culture-and-design/comment-page-1/#comment-3084 Billy Shih Fri, 05 Oct 2007 05:02:49 +0000 http://www.kvwong.com/blog/2007/10/04/just-a-thought-on-business-culture-and-design/#comment-3084 I'm waiting to find a company that doesn't compromise features over design or vice versa. I hate how companies either have their strengths in features (HTC) or design (Apple). The closest I've ever come to having both is with the Sidekicks, which have great design and a lot of great features. The Ocean is the only thing that has done that after the Sidekick, but they all are still flawed. Apple executes everyone else's ideas well, but they don't come up with any of their own. Not to say that they're the only ones guilty of that, Microsoft copies everyone else too, they just suck at it. In addition, Apple still has made questionable choices: gimping the Touch, how the fuck do you not have IM?, and let people update their phones and tinker with them. Also, if we were a small ass island and more technologically inclined, I'm sure we'd be way past Japan. 3G networks, as much as you might think they're not important, are the norm in Japan giving them a lot more capabilities. Look at how much the internet has changed with the progression of broadband. YouTube would not be exist, video would not exist at all, podcasts? not that either, nor would torrents, and maybe even myspace would suffer a lot. I'm waiting for a company to be like a hardware version of Google or Facebook and completely changing the game. Apple has come very close to that, but where's the innovation? I’m waiting to find a company that doesn’t compromise features over design or vice versa. I hate how companies either have their strengths in features (HTC) or design (Apple). The closest I’ve ever come to having both is with the Sidekicks, which have great design and a lot of great features. The Ocean is the only thing that has done that after the Sidekick, but they all are still flawed.

Apple executes everyone else’s ideas well, but they don’t come up with any of their own. Not to say that they’re the only ones guilty of that, Microsoft copies everyone else too, they just suck at it. In addition, Apple still has made questionable choices: gimping the Touch, how the fuck do you not have IM?, and let people update their phones and tinker with them.

Also, if we were a small ass island and more technologically inclined, I’m sure we’d be way past Japan. 3G networks, as much as you might think they’re not important, are the norm in Japan giving them a lot more capabilities. Look at how much the internet has changed with the progression of broadband. YouTube would not be exist, video would not exist at all, podcasts? not that either, nor would torrents, and maybe even myspace would suffer a lot.

I’m waiting for a company to be like a hardware version of Google or Facebook and completely changing the game. Apple has come very close to that, but where’s the innovation?

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