Apple. A Brief History of the GUI. Part of the fourth and final: Today

Bad artists copy. Great artists steal.
Pablo Picasso.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
steve Jobs

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people are not used to an environment where excellence is expected.
steve Jobs

Just as two decades ago, Apple is one of the leaders in the field of human-computer vzaimdeystviya. Yes, since the region has expanded significantly, many new companies, their laboratories have got all the giants of computer building, but even Apple is now possible to implement in the finished commercial products that others have not been able to bring to the desired level or not brought on the walls laboratories. Here an important role is played not only that Apple is doing, but also what to do.

Here are just a few examples ...

Spotlight. Long before the advent of such features in OS X has announced a similar feature Microsoft. However, with the company's inherent optimism redmondovskie comrades believed that by the time their child is imetf aylovuyu new generation system, integrated with the database, as well as to recognize commands in natural language (English, of course), processing requests such as "Where are Bill's documents from yesterday? ". What came from Microsoft in practice, we know (and get something much more slow and miserable, than the Google / Yahoo products and others like them), Spotlight is also one of point'ov selling the latest versions of OS X.

Multitouch. Research in this field are more than a dozen years, and something similar can be seen even in the movie Bruce Starlight Tonyazini filmed them for Sun. iPhone is the first device who has led the technology to the masses.
Spaces. Virtual desktops are widely used for more than ten years, but similar in terms of convenience and beauty decisions I still have not seen anywhere else (although it participated in the development of one of these products).
Time Machine. Tell me honestly, if anyone of you have used before the advent of TM products to create backups? And often? I tried everything from Acronis True Image to samopisnyh scripts, but for transparency for the user, ease of operation and ease of analogues are not met. But, it would seem that complicated: just sit and do incremental backups, replacing duplicate hardlink. The benefit of the last are not new.

Safari. Many of the new can come up in the mechanism of association / merger tabs? Or search for the page, which existed long before the browsers Safari 3? As well shows an example of an interesting new - just brought to mind old.

The list is very long ...

Yes, Apple is not without sin, and there are many examples of sloppy monsters to iTunes podglyuchivaet at the wrong time or ugly Airport dialogues connect network resources. You can pile up remember QuickTime, uncomfortable Sharing files or gloat over the Mighty Mouse, adding here the application crashes when mismatch version OS... On the other hand, who in this world perfect? Even with many shortcomings Apple products attracts the users all over the world for its simplicity, elegance and design.

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