The Apple tablet is going to be awesome, we all know it. But in my mind, what is going to make me want to buy one? The software..

Right before the PowerMac G4 came out, I was ready to plop down some money for a new Macintosh. I was leaning towards the next laptop that was coming out. What changed my mind was the introduction ofiDVD. Here was a way to put those home movies onto an actual dvd! Or make an awesome slideshow of pictures of a particular event for family.

It was a solution that I didn’t know I needed or was really possible. That’s what the tablet needs tomorrow. Something that I didn’t know I needed or was really possible.

An iPhone four times the size with the same applications isn’t going to cut it.

Notice the dark, medium, and light circles around the numbers? I found these immediately distracting, and wondered why they decided to make them in this pattern? Are they significant in some way? Do they indicate some sort of relative importance to spots in the list?

As far as I can tell, no. Here’s an Acornified version that removes that distraction, and allows us to concentrate on the the games themselves:

Better, yes?

First and most importantly, the Cocoa programmer’s focus is always the end result for the user, not the academic sophistication of the code.

(Via Theobroma Cacao.)

(Via Manage This.)

Jim posts a pretty cool article about the Web 2.0 Conference going on now in San Francisco, and the designs of the free stuff. Well worth clicking through to read.