They have this brand image where everything is slick, tight, usable and so forth. It is "just right". To release (using Grubers example) half baked copy/paste would have appeased a few - but it wouldn't be the "Apple way".
That's not a bad thing; it doesn't make their products bad (and actually makes most products awesome!). More importantly it's their brand niche and they do it well. In fact they do it like no other.
Are you serious? If developers and startup founders really think this way we need to do something about it stat.
Having amazing user experience and products that "just work" shouldn't be something that only Apple does. The fact that you think of something being slick, tight, and usable as a brand image makes me dizzy. Shouldn't EVERYONE strive for these characteristics? I know my startup does.
Woah. I hope I didn't come across as saying that. What I meant to do was reply to the GPs specific comments about this being a big corporate thing. It's not - most big cos don't do it. In the world of big co this is an apple thing.
More to the point it applies to Apple.
They have this brand image where everything is slick, tight, usable and so forth. It is "just right". To release (using Grubers example) half baked copy/paste would have appeased a few - but it wouldn't be the "Apple way".
That's not a bad thing; it doesn't make their products bad (and actually makes most products awesome!). More importantly it's their brand niche and they do it well. In fact they do it like no other.