Slogans That Work
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| Nintendo now outsells Microsoft and Sony, and last year its market
| capitalization surpassed Sony's.
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http://www.forbes.com/global/2008/0107/040.html?partner=yahoomag
Highs and Lows for Geeks in 2007
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| The success of the Nintendo Wii proved that gamers are more interested in fun
| than they are in snazzy graphics. Sure, the fact that the game system cost
| half that of the Sony PlayStation 3 or the Xbox 360 didn't hurt, but the real
| coup was how enjoyable the games are to play.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/60984.html
Vista is just too heavy, expensive, and complicated. For the same reason that
Nintendo does well, Linux is gradually taking over the desk/laptop.
Related:
Is Simple Software Always Better?
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| On the opposite end of the spectrum, some software is built to be
| so simple and elegant that you wonder if the developers only created
| it so that it could be entered into a beauty pageant. All beauty and
| no brains isn't a good combination either, but even with that said,
| this is the development style that some OS X developers have fallen
| into. Their applications may animate a certain action beautifully,
| which is cool, but does the software actually do what it needs to
| do? Are you sacrificing functionality for looks? Does the program
| really add anything new, or is it the same old thing with an
| extreme makeover? The truth of the matter is that looks will only
| get you so far. You may be able to initially draw some eyeballs
| your way, but once the novelty wears off, what do you have to show
| for yourself? If you leave your users wanting more, then they may
| even switch over to the "old-fashioned" applications that may not
| look very pretty, and they may have a lot going on, but at least
| they can get the job done.
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http://www.osweekly.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2394&Itemid=449
Goodbye, cruel Word
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| So that’s how it is now. I write within the pure, glowing universes of
| Scrivener and WriteRoom. I send articles to the Guardian as plain-text rather
| than .doc. I am confident that I will be able to open those articles and the
| chapters of my book again, if I want to, in 30 years’ time. And now a
| 1000-word review weighs 4K instead of 30K. I weep at all the innocent
| electrons I wastefully killed over the years, sending those massive,
| lumbering Word documents through the internet. I apologise for my particle
| profligacy. I have learned my lesson. Goodbye, cruel Word.
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http://stevenpoole.net/blog/goodbye-cruel-word/
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