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Display Name: rickysalsberry
Personal URL: http://rickysalsberry.com
Member Since: 1/8/09

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"While it's true that the iPad is one of the best tablets around, the closed nature of the device makes it somewhat problematic for some users. Instead of using an iPad, which you'll most probably want to update the following year, try a non-iOS device."

First: Who is the closed nature a problem for? Developers who want to make shitty apps? 1% of the userbase who want to customize every pixel of the OS? These users jailbreak and are still happy. Based on sales, "closed" only matters to a few vocal devs. The consumer doesn't care, at all.

Secondly: Don't buy an iPad because you'll want to upgrade? Have you SEEN the update history of non-iOS devices? http://theunderstatement.com/post/11982112928/android-orphans-visualizing-a-sad-history-of-support

You'd HAVE to buy a new tablet every year if you went non-iOS. The Apple one would be fully supported for years.


How to Live without a Cell Phone or Tablet
11/2/11 11:41 AM

For anyone curious, the little guy was done by illustrator Jana Kinsman

http://janakinsman.com/


What Thrift Store Find Do You Treasure Most?
7/2/11 1:52 AM

It's Shepard Fairey — of course it doesn't match the message. He's handcuffed based on what Constructivist poster he's plagiarizing.


Jonathan Adler's Love Unites Print for Auction | Apartment Therapy Los Angeles
12/13/09 12:03 PM

The dark grout really sets this off.

Nice Work. Looks great.

Anyone who says this is a slap in the face to the poor needs to rethink that point. This is cheap.

As for legality, if the gov't comes after someone for this, I'm moving to Europe.


Apartment Therapy New York | Penny Tile Floor at the Standard Hotel NotCot.com
7/5/09 12:43 PM

Forbes proved recently with its article on the 'snooty business' of graphic design that they are a joke.

This ranking just cements that with me.

Forbes is a joke.


Apartment Therapy Chicago | Thoughts on Forbes Most Miserable American Cities List Forbes.com, 02.06.09
2/11/09 12:10 PM

If anyone from Bassam is reading this - I didn't go to your web page simply because it resized my entire browser. So much for buying your stools.

Fix that shit.


Apartment Therapy New York | Best Simple Backless High Stools
2/6/09 2:20 PM

Anybody know what grey comforter/quilt/blanket is on the steel platform bed?? I'd like to have that.


Apartment Therapy Chicago | Scavenger: Room Board Steel Platform Bed for $600 Chicago
1/29/09 5:21 PM

"The scale was off, straight lines for subway routes were used instead of more accurate representations...a classic example of bad design."

— It's simplification and is essential in wayfinding maps to show the user ONLY what they need to know. You are exactly wrong. The user does not need to know that a subway line weaves slightly left, then right, underground. They only need to know that it goes from A to B.

Giving the user precisely the right amount of information is good design. Whether it is a factual representation of unnecessary details is irrelevant.

Mr. Vignelli may have gone a hair too Modernist with his map but it's worlds better than what we are forced to use today. Too much information to digest.


Apartment Therapy New York | Massimo Vignelli Updates his New York City Subway Diagram
1/22/09 7:43 PM

Great quote - but I reeeally can't stand Fairey.


Apartment Therapy Chicago | Good Quotes: Noam Chomsky On Hope
1/20/09 7:22 PM

The entire system can be found here:
http://segd.org/awards/2006/07_bloomberg.html


Apartment Therapy New York | Hot or Not? Level 5 by Paula Scher
1/8/09 3:52 PM