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Amazing Rant on the Future by ex Apple UI designer
In our last post on “Why cloud the future of Dropbox and Evernote?”, our simple message was to dump on certain media bombast projecting the future as a mere extension of current trends. We chose to share a video on Microsoft Vision 2019 that impressed in “Minority Report” style as an evolutionary leap into the future, good enough to shame the extrapolating bots.
Alas, things have prompted a relook on our choice since then. Not the message but just the particular example.
We happened to stumble upon an absolutely BRILLIANT, enlightening curve ball of a post by an ex-Apple UI wiz Bret Victor. … Read the rest
Tags: Apple, Bret Victor, Design, dropbox, Evernote, Future, information, iPad, iPhone, Microsoft, SIRI, Tech crunch, UI, Vision, zukmo
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The last place you’d expect to see an Apple logo
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Check out the LiveMesh (a Microsoft service) site.
Guess who’s logo prominently features in the homepage?
Apple.
Yes, Apple!
And an Apple Mac, at that. Can’t see it clearly in the screenshot below?
Go ahead, check out the Live Mesh site.
I see this as another example of Microsoft’s new ‘approach’ that we spoke about earlier. Of course, they’re doing it to highlight the cross platform sync capabilities of their application – but a few years ago, you’d have expected Microsoft to pretend that a Mac didn’t even merit ‘consideration’ for their sync application.

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Tags: Apple, LiveMesh, Microsoft
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