Clazh » Mac http://www.clazh.com Technology & Design Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:06:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Why Apple Is Good at User Experience And Design http://www.clazh.com/why-apple-is-good-at-user-experience-and-design/ http://www.clazh.com/why-apple-is-good-at-user-experience-and-design/#comments Fri, 14 Mar 2008 12:05:07 +0000 Arpit Jacob http://www.clazh.com/why-apple-is-good-at-user-experience-and-design/ The first two point from Michael Lopp, senior engineering manager at Apple, Presentation at SXSW caught my attention.

Pixel Perfect Mockups

Most companies or designers are pretty ok with creating wireframes or paper prototypes. Apple on the other hand spends a huge amount of time and effort on making pixel perfect mockups. This gives a clear focus to what the application does and looks like.

10 to 3 to 1

Apple designer have come up with 10 completly different designs. A huge amount of creative energy is spent in coming up with the designs. Heck I have trouble coming with more than 2-3 designs and tend to get brain dead if I try too hard. Out of the ten designs, only three are selected. Then more time is spent on those three mockups. At the final stage they nail down the best design out of the three.

Read More about Apples Design process at Businessweek.

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]]> http://www.clazh.com/why-apple-is-good-at-user-experience-and-design/feed/ 0 Did Someone Say Macs Are More Secure Than Windows? http://www.clazh.com/did-someone-say-macs-are-more-secure-than-windows/ http://www.clazh.com/did-someone-say-macs-are-more-secure-than-windows/#comments Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:07:23 +0000 Arpit Jacob http://www.clazh.com/did-someone-say-macs-are-more-secure-than-windows/ George Ou who writes for the security column at ZDNET did an analysis of security for Mac OS and Windows using data from impartial Secunia. The Results maybe pretty surprising depending on what your views are regarding MAC Vs PC. I am personally not surprised but I certainly didn’t expect such a big difference. I have never had any viruses or significant crashes with windows in the past 1 year that I running windows XP with Service pack 2 and the latest updates.

This shows that Apple had more than 5 times the number of flaws per month than Windows XP and Vista in 2007, and most of these flaws are serious. Clearly this goes against conventional wisdom because the numbers show just the opposite and it isn’t even close.

Also noteworthy is that while Windows Vista shows fewer flaws than Windows XP and has more mitigating factors against exploitation, the addition of Windows Defender and Sidebar added 4 highly critical flaws to Vista that weren’t present in Windows XP. Sidebar accounted for three of those additional vulnerabilities and it’s something I am glad I don’t use. The lone Defender critical vulnerability that was supposed to defend Windows Vista was ironically the first critical vulnerability for Windows Vista.

Source CybernetNews

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]]> http://www.clazh.com/get-a-mac-ad-choose-a-vista/feed/ 7 Apple Numbers http://www.clazh.com/apple-numbers/ http://www.clazh.com/apple-numbers/#comments Tue, 06 Nov 2007 06:38:46 +0000 Arpit Jacob http://www.clazh.com/apple-numbers/ apple dollarWith this whole hype of the iphone, Mac OS X Leopard, new ipods and the new imacs, much of the attention is focused on Apple. Bad luck Microsoft! But has Microsoft released anything in past 6 months? The answer is ‘Yes’ and they are:

  • Windows Home Server 2008
  • New Microsoft Zune models
  • Halo 3
  • Windows Live services

Since the attention is focused on Apple, here are it’s earnings, market share and sales:

  • On the Apple earnings call, CFO Peter Oppenheimer cited some research from Strategy Analytics placing the iPhone as the “fourth highest selling handset in the U.S. market in the September quarter.” (The Motorola V3 was No. 1).
  • Apple has sold 1.4 million iPhones in a little over a quarter. It took the iPod more than two years to reach the same number of sales. The price cut helped it reach that number, by nearly doubling the daily sales of the iPhone. And Apple says it is on track to sell 10 million iPhones by next year.
  • Of those 1.4 million iPhones, Oppenheimer estimates 250,000 (or 18 percent) were unlocked to work on networks other than AT&T. (That explains why Apple was so aggressive in bricking those iPhones. Apple only gets paid by AT&T for iPhones connected to its network).
  • The iPhone starts selling in the UK (with O2) and Germany (with T-Mobile) on November 9th, and in France on November 29th (with Orange).
  • iTunes has now sold 3 billion songs, and 100 million TV shows.
  • Apple’s retail strategy continues to power an increasing portion of its sales. In the September quarter, 57 percent of Apple’s sales were direct through its stores or Website, compared to 53 percent a year ago.

[Credit/data: Tech Crunch]

This post is by Michael. Find out more about him HERE

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