Joe Day

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September 3, 2010

@luzbonita

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over 1 year ago JoshSquintz (Twitter) responded:

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So simple in its complexity that it's brilliant!

over 1 year ago Luz Bratcher responded:

Luz Bratcher

Gotcha.

I actually like it scaled back. More breathing space to find my music and minimize the player. Don't really want anything shiny. The optimist in me thinks they're stripping everything so they can make us pee our pants with revolutionary improvement.

over 1 year ago Joe Day responded:

Joe Day

I don't think it is an issue of shine. It's one of clarity in UX, visual hierarchy and usability. Apple has a legacy of winning with design, going one step further to make the UX amazing. In this release, Ping barely works, the UX is barely more than a wire-frame. That seems very unApple, and a weak strategy for software that has 10s of millions of users.

If they are stripping everything in advance of a revolutionary "magical" improvement, the Apple thing to do would be to release that and wow everyone. They just don't do stuff like this. That's what is so baffling to me.