"Apple is brilliant on interface and usability, but in Europe, phones are so heavily subsidized, there's a perception that they're worth nothing," says Boris Nemsic, chief executive of Telekom Austria Group, a European telecom company with 11 million mobile customers.
I still have my Blackberry Curve 9360 in my office, I saw it in my draw today and had a pang of longing to use its wonderfully simple menu system, brilliant email interface and superb keyboard.
Now that the debut has run its course, anyone can go to http://24hoursofhappy.com/ and hover over the screen to manipulate a brilliant digital interface that allows users to navigate to various points in the content, scroll credits for the project of We Are From L.A. and Iconoclast, and of course "share this moment" on social media.
In January, when he wrote about the "radical and gorgeous" iPhone, he described its "brilliant new user interface; the handsomest email program and Web browser I've ever seen on a phone; a full-blown iPod music and video player built in; and even a cool new voicemail system".
What was missed, and still is, was stellar innovation in software and systems engineering, that set up the conversion of the communications grid from analog to digital, enabling an Internet boom, advanced cellular communications, corporate networks, along with the adoption of Apple's brilliant graphical user interface in the Microsoft PC world, so-called Windows computing.
The interface is brilliant, but potentially spellbinding.
I use an iPhone 4. It's a gorgeously designed, powerful gadget which combines brilliant functionality with an endlessly delightful interface.
Unfortunately, you really miss the scroll wheel (like the one on a mouse) that was on the original Vudu remote--a brilliant touch on a gadget whose interface consists primarily of lists.
"Chierchia is a brilliant and influential semanticist whose work focuses on the interface between semantics — the study of meaning — and syntax, the study of sentence structure.
Google's decision to give 'rules' to its new Android user interface is not just brave, it is brilliant and easily the most exciting thing about Lollipop.
