Apple is known for fantastic product design, but it’s not known for customization. The first iPhone hit the world nearly eight years ago, and yet our “customizable” home screen options are limited to the organization of app icons and some wallpaper choices that can produce color tints through translucent layers. So all of us future Apple Watch owners likely will have to settle for a handful of Apple-developed watch faces. I’ve been hoping for months that Apple would let third-party designers rethink how to show time through watch faces.
There is such a thing as too many options. Throwing a bunch of options out there is way to avoid having to study or think about how to complete the task of delivering a finished product.
Many people enjoy some level of customization, but don't want to spend too much time diving into the guts of a device--so for those many, it doesn't really take much to create a sense (illusion?) of uniqueness, of being different. And for those that do spend more time in customization, from what I have been able to observe, oftentimes the result is simply change for the sake of change, not for improvement ("eye of the beholder" considerations notwithstanding).
So it seems to me the "different" part of "think different" is actually the effort that goes into the "think" part.
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Take Your Apple Watch Face and Love It!
Posted by: Chris Maxcer April 23, 2015 03:04 PMApple is known for fantastic product design, but it’s not known for customization. The first iPhone hit the world nearly eight years ago, and yet our “customizable” home screen options are limited to the organization of app icons and some wallpaper choices that can produce color tints through translucent layers. So all of us future Apple Watch owners likely will have to settle for a handful of Apple-developed watch faces. I’ve been hoping for months that Apple would let third-party designers rethink how to show time through watch faces.
Many people enjoy some level of customization, but don't want to spend too much time diving into the guts of a device--so for those many, it doesn't really take much to create a sense (illusion?) of uniqueness, of being different. And for those that do spend more time in customization, from what I have been able to observe, oftentimes the result is simply change for the sake of change, not for improvement ("eye of the beholder" considerations notwithstanding).
So it seems to me the "different" part of "think different" is actually the effort that goes into the "think" part.