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	<title>Pierre-Nick is dynamik &#187; Apple</title>
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		<title>Brilliant UI: Shake to Reload</title>
		<link>http://www.pierre-nick.com/2008/10/13/brilliant-ui-shake-to-reload/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 01:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pierre Nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you own an iPhone (or iPod touch) and you are as addicted to Facebook as I am, you then probably have the new Facebook 2.0 app installed on your Apple mobile device. Facebook Version 2.0 is like day-and-night when compared to 1.x as it offers pretty much all of the functionality of its Web [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="size-medium wp-image-114" style="margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom:10px; float:left;" title="photo" src="http://www.pierre-nick.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/photo-200x300.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="300" />If you own an iPhone (or iPod touch) and you are as addicted to Facebook as I am, you then probably have the new <a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=284882215&amp;mt=8">Facebook 2.0 app</a> installed on your Apple mobile device. Facebook Version 2.0 is like day-and-night when compared to 1.x as it offers pretty much all of the functionality of its Web counterpart.</p>
<p>But it is only last week that I was playing around my iPhone&#8217;s settings, only to discover there is a Facebook settings pane that had this very interesting option turned off by default: <strong>Shake to Reload</strong>.</p>
<p>This shows one again how the iPhone&#8217;s capabilities can bring man-machine interaction to a more natural level.  I love this feature, use it all the time. The problem is.. I find myself shaking my phone in all other apps to reload too.. Mail, Safari, STM Mobile &#8230; to no avail.  My message to developers: you know what to do!</p>
<p>Shaking your iPhone like that in public can make you look a bit crazy, as if you&#8217;re about to beat the world record in cellphone throwing, but I&#8217;m ready to accept that for the sake of a higher UI usability.</p>
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		<title>Hands-on first look at STM mobile for iPhone [updated]</title>
		<link>http://www.pierre-nick.com/2008/07/31/hands-on-first-look-at-stm-mobile-for-iphone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:14:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pierre Nick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Transport]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I stumbled at STM mobile, a new iPhone OS application that lets you get the Société de Transport de Montréal’s bus passing times, all with detours, and cancelled stops. Also included are the last Métro hours and interval times for each station.
This thing is just brilliant. In less than 24 hours, it became one [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yesterday I stumbled at <a href="http://directionfilms.net/stmmobile/index_en.html">STM mobile</a>, a new iPhone OS application that lets you get the <a href="http://www.stm.info">Société de Transport de Montréal</a>’s bus passing times, all with detours, and cancelled stops. Also included are the last Métro hours and interval times for each station.</p>
<p>This thing is just brilliant. In less than 24 hours, it became one of my most frequently used apps.  I took 3 buses yesterday, all I had to do is get my iPhone out of my pocket, tap in the bus stop number and select my bus line. Very quick and fast.</p>
<p>And when it’s set to your favorites, it takes 3 seconds (as opposed to the 1 minute it takes to call AUTOBUS, with STM always wanting you to answer their automated survey, <em><strong>before</strong></em> you actually get your bus times)</p>
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<p>This little application is pretty great, but I hope to see some new things in possible updates. Here&#8217;s my little feature list so far:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Information caching</strong><br />
In “Favorite stops” the app should be able to cache the times. When you quit the app and come back, it has to fetch the times again. Instead of displaying the last fetched times if no network connection is present; it displays a [n albeit very elegant] warning that I am not connected to the Internet. This could be easily fixed in a future update. [<strong>Update: This was fixed in 1.0.1!</strong>]</li>
<li><strong>Use of localization services</strong><br />
Use of the localization of the iPhone, somehow. I shown this to a friend and the first thing he said was “And does it find your location automatically and the nearby stops?” All I could say is “uhm.. Oh.. No.. No it doesn’t”.</li>
<li><strong>Trip planning and more</strong><br />
Metro map [<strong>Update: added in 1.0.1!</strong>], &#8220;Tous Azimut&#8221; trip planning support (if STM would allow such).</li>
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<p>This application is a must have for those taking the bus regularity in Montreal. It’s available for $0.99 on the iTunes App Store. As of 3:45 pm on July 31st 2008 it is the 10th most downloaded paid app of the Canadian iTunes Store!</p>
<p>Now the geeky part:<span id="more-101"></span></p>
<p>First, let me add that this is the most beautiful application I have seen so far on the iPhone OS beside Apple’s. The developer is a true master of Cocoa Touch, as this uses user interface controls and features I have only seen in Apple’s own apps so far.</p>
<p>Second, I’ve been trying to find out how this application fetches this information. I doubt STM has REST API web services for apps like these to bring back the content.  I just don’t feel like sniffing the traffic between my iPhone and my WiFi access point right now! ;) Anybody know? I’ll email the author of the app and ask him. [<strong>Update: It seems the app fetches the info directly from the web pages it parses</strong>]</p>
<p>If  STM were to make such info available via web services or the like, perhaps they could also open up access to their trip planning service, which could then be integrated in mobile apps like this.  This would be the most remarkable thing.</p>
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		<title>Compendium of Interest X: iTunes Canada rentals, Detroit</title>
		<link>http://www.pierre-nick.com/2008/06/04/compendium-of-interest-x-itunes-canada-rentals-detroit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 03:08:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pierre Nick</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Compendium of Interest]]></category>

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Apple movie rentals/purchase are now available in Canada! [Press] Yay!
I still prefer to buy my movies on disc (for the time being anyway: no special features, not even near DVD, even less HD quality, for the downloads) but for the rental, it&#8217;s a great deal I think. Here&#8217;s a summary in Canadian dollars:    




 


Buy


Rent


Rent (HD)




“Catalog title”


9.99


3.99


4.99




“Recent releases”


14.99




“New releases”


19.99


4.99


5.99





Detroit [...]]]></description>
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<li>Apple movie rentals/purchase are now available in Canada! [<a href="http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2008/06/04itunes_ca.html">Press</a>] Yay!<br />
I still prefer to buy my movies on disc (for the time being anyway: no special features, not even near DVD, even less HD quality, for the downloads) but for the <strong>rental</strong>, it&#8217;s a <strong>great</strong> deal I think. Here&#8217;s a summary in Canadian dollars:    </p>
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<li>Detroit gagne la coupe. Mais me semble que c&#8217;est assez poche de pas gagner la coupe chez vous. Les joueurs se font interviewer sur la patinoire mais il n&#8217;y a personne dans les estrades en arrière-plan.. </li>
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		<title>MacBook Air ou l&#8217;art de ne jamais être content</title>
		<link>http://www.pierre-nick.com/2008/01/15/macbook-air-ou-lart-de-ne-jamais-etre-content/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pierre-nick.com/2008/01/15/macbook-air-ou-lart-de-ne-jamais-etre-content/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 03:28:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pierre Nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ça se plaint qu&#8217;il manque des ports et un lecteur optique, que la batterie est intégrée et non-amovible, que la RAM ne peux être accédée.. MAIS ça se plaint PAS que c&#8217;est la plus merveilleuse ingénierie au monde &#8212; HEY! la batterie est plus grosse que le logic board! &#8212; que c&#8217;est un ordinateur portable [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ça se plaint qu&#8217;il manque des ports et un lecteur optique, que la batterie est intégrée et non-amovible, que la RAM ne peux être accédée.. MAIS ça se plaint PAS que c&#8217;est la plus merveilleuse ingénierie au monde &#8212; HEY! la batterie est plus grosse que le logic board! &#8212; que c&#8217;est un ordinateur portable <span style="font-style: italic" class="Apple-style-span">de la mort</span> en terme de performance, avec une épaisseur qui va de 0.16&#8243; à 0.76&#8243; pour 1.3 kg par exemple!<span style="font-weight: bold" class="Apple-style-span"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold" class="Apple-style-span">Mise en situation:</span><span style="font-weight: bold" class="Apple-style-span"></span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: bold" class="Apple-style-span">Steve Jobs:</span> We have for you the new MacBook Air! It&#8217;s 1&#8243; thin, with a removable battery, an optical drive, 5 USB 2.0 ports! Oh also no solid state memory option, it&#8217;s got a big nice ol&#8217; notebook hard drive! Amazing!<span style="font-weight: bold" class="Apple-style-span"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold" class="Apple-style-span">Tout le monde:</span> Ah ben là! C&#8217;est ça qui appellent un sub-notebook? C&#8217;est même pas mince <span style="font-style: italic" class="Apple-style-span">s&#8217;t'affaire-là</span>! Ils auraient pu ôter des ports, ou peut-être même le lecteur optique! Y&#8217;ont tu pensé à une batterie intégrée? Yé pas vraiment léger aussi, &#8216;Air&#8217; mon oeil!</p></blockquote>
<p>Arrêtez donc d&#8217;être jamais content.</p>
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		<title>The Microsoft envy syndrome</title>
		<link>http://www.pierre-nick.com/2007/10/29/the-microsoft-envy-syndrome/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2007 22:49:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pierre Nick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[More than ever with the release of Leopard and my deep annoyance of Windows (in general but mainly Vista) have I wanted to write a short article on what I find that is so wrong with Microsoft right now. Luckily for me, some people share my exact view on the mater and how it can&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>More than ever with the release of Leopard and my deep annoyance of Windows (in general but mainly Vista) have I wanted to write a short article on what I find that is so wrong with Microsoft right now. Luckily for me, some people share my exact view on the mater and how it can&#8217;t go on forever.</p>
<p>C|Net blogger Don Reisinger writes an excellent <a href="http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13506_1-9806255-17.html">article</a> about the 3 majors facts Microsoft is not going the right way. Although I don&#8217;t agree with everything he writes, the three reasons follow my train of thought and here&#8217;s my own view on them.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Reason1</strong>: The Vista debacle</li>
</ul>
<p>Computer makers have been asking Microsoft the right to continue bundling Windows XP with their hardware because some believe that Vista has slowed down sales. I&#8217;d like to add the fact that I know one single person who loves Vista very much, and he admitted to me yesterday he was coming from XP Home and that he never actually used or seen Mac OS X. Vista annoys the hell out of everyone and from everything with security pop-ups. Haven&#8217;t they heard of the fable The Boy Who Cried Wolf? Microsoft is only training its users to mindlessly click &#8220;Allow&#8221; on all those scary security threads (such as changing the date and time), until a real security breach occurs, which will of course get the standard &#8220;Allow&#8221; treatment. This is 1. Annoying 2. Ineffective 3. Not user-friendly (from Microsoft, surprise surprise). One could go endlessly here about Vista (<a href="http://badvista.fsf.org/">DRM</a> anyone?) &#8230;</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Reason2</strong>: Google envy</li>
</ul>
<p>This is one of my favorite argument against how bad Microsoft has become. First, Microsoft is losing focus (mainly in online advertisement) so it can try to catch up to Google. The Search Giant buys DoubleClick: Microsoft buys a random advertisement firm for $6 billions. And this doesn&#8217;t only apply to Google. Second, <strong>Microsoft aims at beating others, unlike others who try to beat themselves first, which subsequently allows them to beat others.</strong> All that Microsoft does is trying to go against others to annoy them: when Google bought this 1.6% stake into Facebook, it did only because Google was also after it.</p>
<p>All of this from the company who&#8217;s CEO once <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/microsoft-ceo-im-going-to-fing-kill-google/2005/09/03/1125302772214.html">said</a>: <em>&#8220;I&#8217;m going to fucking bury that guy [Eric Schmidt], I have done it before, and I will do it again. I&#8217;m going to fucking kill Google&#8221;. </em>Ahh! What an exemplary well tempered and rational chief executive officer.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m sorry but no one can keep up with such a business model forever. Having a truckload of money and a complete monopoly on the corporate world (read: sign deals with key upper-management people who have zero clue about technology and/or when huge bonuses are involved) only postpones their fate.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Reseaon3</strong>: It&#8217;s beyond Microsoft&#8217;s control</li>
</ul>
<p>Basically, Microsoft doesn&#8217;t drive innovation (oh really!). Not a single Microsoft product was meant to innovate (even Microsoft Surface, which we have been seeing for a few years at MIT&#8217;s Media Lab). Luckily, the guys at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Research">Microsoft Research</a> Centers come save the day on this one.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s a sad thing innovation only comes from a handful of players. If they were to disappear (say for example if Microsoft assimilates them), I don&#8217;t want to imagine what would happen to the tech world.</p>
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		<title>The World Wild Web</title>
		<link>http://www.pierre-nick.com/2007/10/27/the-world-wild-web/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Oct 2007 01:15:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pierre Nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hmm.
Am I sure I want to open this application?
(Well I obviously am, because that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m using right now since Safari still doesn&#8217;t play nice with TinyMCE used as the WYSIWYG WordPress editor. Oh snap!)

Still this is a nice addition to OS security!
Unlike Microsoft&#8217;s approach to &#8217;security&#8217; with Windows Vista, which literally alerts you every [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hmm.<br />
Am I sure I want to open this application?<br />
(Well I obviously am, because that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m using right now since Safari still doesn&#8217;t play nice with <a href="http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/">TinyMCE</a> used as the WYSIWYG WordPress editor. Oh snap!)</p>
<p><img src="http://www.pierre-nick.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/picture-1.png" alt="FirefoxOS10.5" /></p>
<p>Still this is a nice addition to OS security!</p>
<p>Unlike Microsoft&#8217;s approach to &#8217;security&#8217; with Windows Vista, which literally alerts you every minute of a possible security breach, from every s-i-n-g-l-e action you take on your computer.</p>
<p>Never an OS made me want to jump out of the Window[s] (oh Ha Ha) more than Windows Vista. What a horrible OS.</p>
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		<title>Est-ce seulement moi..</title>
		<link>http://www.pierre-nick.com/2007/10/27/est-ce-seulement-moi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Oct 2007 00:45:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pierre Nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; ou le backup initial avec Time Machine dure une éternité! Ça fait une heure qu&#8217;il travaille sur le 1er Gb de backup!
C&#8217;est sûrement dû au fait que Java 6 n&#8217;est pas inclu dans Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, hmm Apple&#8230;? (Je suis au courant que ça n&#8217;a pas vraiment rapport mais j&#8217;aime dénoncer cette [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8230; ou le backup initial avec <a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/timemachine.html">Time Machine</a> dure une éternité! Ça fait une heure qu&#8217;il travaille sur le 1er Gb de backup!</p>
<p>C&#8217;est sûrement dû au fait que Java 6 n&#8217;est pas inclu dans Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, hmm Apple&#8230;? (Je suis au courant que ça n&#8217;a pas vraiment rapport mais j&#8217;aime dénoncer cette calamité)</p>
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		<title>Nokia wants you to come in, it&#8217;s open.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2007 05:10:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pierre Nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Using slogans such as “The best devices have no limits” and “Phones should be open to anything”, Nokia clearly points its position on mobile device openness in this new ad campaign. [Photo credits macrumors forum user mcdj]

This comes just when Apple releases iPhone software update 1.1.1 which rendered unusable any user-installed application and relocking the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Using slogans such as “The best devices have no limits” and “Phones should be open to anything”, Nokia clearly points its position on mobile device openness in this <a href="http://www.nseries.com/open">new ad campaign</a>. <a href="http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=362519">[Photo</a> credits macrumors forum user <em>mcdj</em>]</p>
<p><img src="http://www.pierre-nick.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/attachmentphp.jpg" alt="Nokia open to anything" title="Nokia open to anything" height="646" width="500" /></p>
<p>This comes just when Apple releases iPhone software update 1.1.1 which rendered unusable any user-installed application and relocking the unlocked devices, while also completely disabling the said phones in an effort to keep its platform closed.</p>
<p>This is a sad thing to behold. An Apple-designed phone user interface sleekness was very welcomed in a world were phone interfaces offer nothing to be proud of, where Palm OS is slowly dying on the account of the exceptionally atrocious Windows Mobile, or where Symbian which even while having a rock solid core, is usually garmented with poor user interfaces. The difference is that all those platforms are known for all the applications you can get for them.</p>
<p>Apple had a slew of developers at its knees, begging for an iPhone software development kit. They were offering Apple the biggest gift of all: propelling the platform higher and further. The Web apps are great but they aren’t only what its all about. If Apple so believes in this, I ask why didn’t they make all their own included applications work this way as well?</p>
<p>On the other hand, I can live without added applications. I must assert that I have faith in Apple’s capability of delivering an amazing user-experience through its own applications. But I still can’t imagine owning a $400 phone locked to one single carrier. That sure is a definite no-go.</p>
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		<title>L’utilisabilité, bâtisseuse de hype.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2007 00:45:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pierre Nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Note: Ce texte à débuté comme simple réaction à l’article Le coté obscure du hype de l'Étudiant alpha, mais a rapidement pris l’ampleur d’un simili-essai sur ma conception de la relation entre le hype envers un produit et les interfaces utilisateur que ce dernier offre. Je fais tout de même référence à l’article d’Étudiant alpha, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[<em>Note: Ce texte à débuté comme simple réaction à l’article <a href="http://etudiantalpha.blogspot.com/2007/09/le-cot-obscure-du-hype.html">Le coté obscure du hype</a> de l'<a href="ttp://etudiantalpha.blogspot.com/">Étudiant alpha</a>, mais a rapidement pris l’ampleur d’un simili-essai sur ma conception de la relation entre le hype envers un produit et les interfaces utilisateur que ce dernier offre. Je fais tout de même référence à l’article d’Étudiant alpha, ceci étant à l’origine ma réplique.</em>]</p>
<p>Je dois applaudir le département marketing d&#8217;Apple pour le iPhone. Jamais les méthodes d&#8217;Apple n&#8217;ont été aussi agressives pour la mise en marché d&#8217;un de leur produit. Apple a su construire une hype tellement puissante et forte autour de l’iPhone, comme il ne l&#8217;avait jamais fait avec aucun autre produit, si ce n’est peut-être pour l’introduction du Macintosh en 1984.</p>
<p>C&#8217;est tout de même brillant d&#8217;un point de vue publicitaire. Et ça semble avoir fonctionné.</p>
<p>Il ne faut pas oublier que le hype est uniquement un véhicule, pour faire jaser et faire désirer. Mais si ce produit tant convoité est vraiment merdique (ou comme diraient les analystes financiers « <em>it failed to impress</em> »), ça ne fait que de l’argent jeté par les fenêtres pour la compagnie (et donc les actionnaires) en coûts de marketing, en plus de donner (et ça c&#8217;est plus grave) à cet échec un retentissant éclat, d&#8217;une amplitude digne du hype original et dont le grand public prends plaisir à se remémorer.</p>
<p>Et ça prends quoi pour qu’un produit ne soit pas merdique? Il doit venir combler un besoin bien-sûr.  Cependant ce n’est pas tant ce que le produit peut faire selon moi, mais comment il le fait, au niveau de l’interface homme-machine, de sa facilité d’utilisation. C’est de là que vient souvent l’élément déclencheur. Il peut y avoir une hype sans cet élément, mais l’engouement ne subsistera pas si longtemps.  J&#8217;ai acheté un iPod en 2002, quand ce nom ne disait rien à personne (c&#8217;était uniquement pour Mac/FireWire). J&#8217;ai choisit ce lecteur-là car Apple sait faire des interfaces utilisateur. C&#8217;est tout.</p>
<p><span id="more-42"></span> Tu mentionnes t’être battu en novembre dernier pour avoir ta Nintendo Wii. C’est un phénomène assez semblable. Le déclencheur de la hype autour de la Wii est dû en partie à l&#8217;interface utilisateur révolutionnaire (dans un contexte de jeu vidéo), qui permettait à ma grand-mère de jouer au Nintendo si elle le voulait.</p>
<p>Il y a aussi ces technologies de navigateur Web de 1996 qui étaient perçues en 1996 jusqu&#8217;en 2004 comme des nuisances. Le JavaScript était vu comme quelque chose qui ne servait à rien, sinon que de faire défiler un message dans la barre de statut d&#8217;une fenêtre WWW, tout en ralentissant le navigateur entre deux pop-up et une phrase multicolore qui traine derrière le curseur de l&#8217;utilisateur.</p>
<p>Mais on l’a présenté d’une façon différente ces dernières années : AJAX et compagnie. Dans quel but? Augmenter de façon considérable l’utilisabilité des sites Web en faisant usage, qui deviendront progressivement de véritables applications en ligne.</p>
<p>C’est un bon hype. Une hype propulsé par le désir de vouloir tout faire plus simplement, d’une façon humainement naturelle. Les gens sont tellement accoutumés de travailler avec des systèmes peu ergonomiques que lorsque surgit une technologie venant pallier ce manque, ils s’émerveillent et commencent à en rêver.</p>
<p>Pensons à la manette audacieuse de la console Wii, à l’écran « multitouch » du iPhone (ou de tout autre appareil), aux interfaces Web de nouvelle génération qui nous font oublier que nous sommes dans un fureteur.  C’est un hype qui selon moi vient adoucir la dégringolade du Technology Hyper Cycle Curve proposée par le Gartner Group :</p>
<p><img src="http://www.pierre-nick.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/gartnercurve-1.jpg" alt="Technology Hype Cycle, Copyright The Gartner Group" title="Technology Hype Cycle, Copyright The Gartner Group" height="333" width="500" /></p>
<p>La courbe reste la même : on imagine encore et toujours que le produit va révolutionner le monde d’une manière jamais vue dans l’histoire de l’humanité (« Peak of Inflated Expectations »); même dans le cas d’un « Technology Trigger » basé sur une nouvelle technologie grand public fournissant une meilleure interface homme-machine.</p>
<p>La différence vient selon moi du fait qu’on ne s’en lasse pas aussi rapidement qu’un produit qui – par exemple –  n’est publicisé uniquement que pour son apparence (ou son « coolness factor »). Ils deviennent de simples commodités au bout d’un temps (pensez au Motorola RAZR) ou alors on les oublie. En prenant du recul, on se rend compte que le RAZR n’a pas vraiment révolutionné à ce point comme l’a fait le iPod, le iPhone, la Wii ou bien AJAX.</p>
<p>Bref : comment faire en sorte que votre création fasse parler d’elle et qu’elle soit entre les mains de tous, même si à la limite le besoin qu’elle vient combler est discutable? Donnez leur un niveau d’utilisabilité inégalé, qui procure une telle joie de vivre lors de l&#8217;utilisation qu’on oublie presque qu’on a entre les mains un dispositif électronique.  Tous les constructeurs et développeurs pensent y parvenir, mais la quasi-totalité échoue.</p>
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		<title>Compendium of Interest I</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2007 18:41:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pierre Nick</dc:creator>
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iPod touch more and more desirable. Some people at Yulblog aren&#8217;t helping me trying to resist getting it. And now this.
iPod Touch Can Run All Apple and Third-Parties&#8217; iPhone App
Mail-in rebates have always been sketchy anyway.
1,300 Unopened Rebate Applications Found In Dumpster
She is new to the blogosphere and Yulblog, she loves shoes, she blogs in [...]]]></description>
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<li>iPod touch more and more desirable. <a href="http://www.edito.qc.ca">Some</a> <a href="http://blondeetaddictedtoshoes.blogspot.com/">people </a>at Yulblog aren&#8217;t helping me trying to resist getting it. And now this.<br />
<a href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/breaking/ipod-touch-can-run-all-apple-and-third+parties-iphone-apps-296837.php">iPod Touch Can Run All Apple and Third-Parties&#8217; iPhone App</a></li>
<li>Mail-in rebates have always been sketchy anyway.<br />
<a href="http://consumerist.com/consumer/fry.s/1300-unopened-rebate-applications-found-in-dumpster-297016.php">1,300 Unopened Rebate Applications Found In Dumpster</a></li>
<li>She is new to the blogosphere and Yulblog, she loves shoes, she blogs in class instead of listening and it&#8217;ll be worse once she gets an iPod touch.<br />
<a href="http://blondeetaddictedtoshoes.blogspot.com/">Blonde et addicted to shoes<br />
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