Other folks? They’ll either sense it too, or they won’t.ġ3 Responses to “You Sense It Or You Don’t” If you’ve got a taste for something, a nose for something, an eye for something, an ear for something, a feel for something, and you find a product that soothes that sense, then you have a special gift: the ability to cast judgement on inferior efforts. Nor does it need to be something “high class.” I’m sure a number of hard-working farmworkers could explain to me in agonizing detail why I picked the absolute worst rake and shovel for my garden.
I can imagine some of my wine-loving friends holding up a $15 bottle of something precious they’d discovered, while expressing disdain for a $200 bottle of swill that somebody else just adores.
It’s also, of course, not restricted to vision. It doesn’t have to relate to expense, and isn’t restricted to a premium class of product. It’s a big freaking deal to us, while other people just don’t see it.
#MARSEDIT ANDROID ANDROID#
It’s exactly the details like the persistently stuttering scrolling that MG points out that continue to make Android products appear less polished to us. This is the “polish.” The rest of us just don’t see it.įor many of us who make, use, or write about software for a living, polish is all about removing from the software as many jarring behaviors as possible. They shake their heads at silly iPhone lovers, hold their phones up high and take pride in these qualities.
#MARSEDIT ANDROID INSTALL#
How about those Android aficionados? They’ll point to the flexibility afforded by true multitasking, freedom to install unapproved apps, etc. For whatever details a given person appreciates and values, far more people will be disinterested and be unlikely to even distinguish differences. This is egalitarian, relating to all facets of life, in every nuanced area of preference or priority. I didn’t pick up on some of the cringe that Joshua pointed out, in particular the implication that rich people who have “nicer” stuff will always enjoy some impossible to crack understanding of the finer things in life.Īnd yet John and MG are totally right.
I enjoyed Joshua Topolsky’s rebuttal to the high-fives exchanged between John Gruber and MG Siegler about the Galaxy Nexus allegedly being less polished than iPhones are.
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