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doubledee	2008-09-29 , 09:09
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Originally Posted by ragnar

So it would be a better idea for the designers to think that they do _not_ know the use cases?
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but surely the idea of "open source" and the aim of having more independent developers come on board with apps would only be helped by the designers having a virtually limitless idea of "use cases"?

Originally Posted by ragnar

Attempting to create a device that tries to please every use case known now and later will really please nobody. "Oh put a d-pad there... No, put two d-pads there! Put 5 keys on the top! Just in case... Somebody might come up with some use for them.".

Texrat beat me to the pc "function keys" answer. But your response is a little fatuous - the single d-pad was obviously seen a s a good idea for the 770 and 800, and double ones are for gamer/multi-use devices of similar size. The regularity of iphone comparisons in some of the answers on this thread are a little worrying in some respects - the iphone in not a nit and the nit is not a phone.

Originally Posted by ragnar

I'd also say that real buttons are a poor substitute for the future technologies (not yet available) with proper haptics and visuals.

this is perhaps the strangest comment of all. if we are truly waiting for a step 4 device to be reliant on technologies that are not yet available then surely that's equivalent to being told "we've lost this particular race to the iphone - we're waiting for the next race to start in a year or so".

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