[Slight OT] TDPL in Russia

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Walter Bright" <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
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> Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> That's all I can think of. Certainly nothing from Apple since Woz left, 
>> and that's the company most people try to point to as a shining example 
>> of alleged "polish".
>
> All I can say is you need to look at the product before it was polished to 
> see if progress was made during the polishing process. Looking at just the 
> end result doesn't tell much.

The pre-release iterations are completely irrelevant. If the end result is 
something with nearly-zero tactile feedback, super-ultra-hyperly-modal 
interface, and can't be turned off with the "power" button, but only by 
holding "Up" for five seconds, or has tiny ui elements that can't be 
accessed with a stylus or fingernail but is far too small to do reliably 
with a finger, or is a closed-locked-down-platform, or is branded as being a 
PDA-like device but still doesn't support something as basic as copy-paste 
that PalmOS devices already had nearly ten years prior even in smartphone 
form (Handspring Treo), then yes, the polish is crap no matter how much 
crappier the early iterations were. Apple's "polish" exists as nothing more 
than aesthetic-oriented graphic design, and it fools most people.