>Ive — and Apple as a whole — is fond of saying that design is about more than the way something looks, it’s the way something works. OS X Mavericks might be the most iOS-looking version of OS X to date, but it’s a fundamentally different operating system built for a different type of input.…
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Neither iCloud nor Dropbox
> Those of us used to, and clinging to, traditional file systems love it, and will continue to love it as it becomes marginalized into obsolescence, as the growing mainstream -- **those who aren't power users but are increasingly empowered users, and who won't get it and shouldn't be subjected to it** -- sweep past…
Read Full Postwillhains:Williams Hains wrote about his experiences setting up his new iPhone 4S from an iCloud backup.I recently had to get my iPhone 4S replaced at the Genius Bar twice within the space of a week. That’s another story. But it meant that I had to go through the new iPhone set-up process a few times, something that normally I would only do once a year at most.He then writes about how he had to re-enter the account ID and password for all his apps and wonders why developers can’t just store and restore his credentials in iCloud. Could it be that app developers with ID-and-password cloud services just haven’t thought of this? Or is it that the APIs for iCloud are just too hard to use? Or perhaps, because this only happens to people once a year or less on average, developers don’t see it as a big problem?No. Not a good idea. The thought of an app like Instapaper, and Flipboard and Instagr.am etc all storing my Facebook, Twitter or Tumblr userid and password iCloud
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