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I don’t even understand what that sentence means.

http://cocoastuff.com/deepgreen/

Bondo decided to go with a clean and elegant design with the controls/widgets you need instead of hogging the display down with useless stuff people don’t care about.

Simplicity, elegancy and ease of use. Got to love it! :D

You might want to think a bit harder then..

Also I picked this up the other day on the recommendation of DaringFireball. It’s amazingly well put together. Definitely worth the 4.99.

I’ve been using the “Chess With Friends” app for the past month and they have a very easy interface and it’s FREE

Didn’t realize at first that Deep Green was a single-player chess game playing the computer. Chess With Friends only has 2 player mode (network or locally).

Achieving this is why I’m 4 months later than the rest.

Seriously—what is he trying to say here? I honestly have no idea? He’s used it for 4 months more? He’s behind 4 months in his progress? He started later? What?

It means stuffing an app full of UI to accomplish its task is a lot easier than building an app that has less UI with more functionality an more usability.

Although I admit that I read it five times myself.

Ok, so he means he released it 4 months later I guess (took 4 months longer? maybe I guess) Thanks CJ—meshes with the link.

I’m at a plant right now, and it gives me a headache looking at some of the stuff people have created for workers to interact with the automated equipment, even the charts they post. I just want to find the guy that used purple for a pushbutton and beat him with his mouse.

“I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.”
– Mark Twain

I use iChess Lite and love it. My daughter (8) is addicted to iChess Lite. No extra bells and whistles, just a regular chess board, play against the computer though. Logo has beautiful translucent chess pieces and is cheaper than Deep Green. Chesspuzzles (free) is OK.

“I just want to find the guy that used purple for a pushbutton and beat him with his mouse.”

LOL . The sad part is that it was probably a $10 million contract, chock full of usability panels, focus groups and design meetings. Not the machines…just the controls.

My favorite chess game is made out of wood, and there’s no requirement that you own an iPhone to use it.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Antoine de Saint Exupery

This is why I really, really, really, REALLY hate bloatware.

Is he Yogi Berra? His explanation does the opposite of what it’s explaining.

Interesting that Craig Hockenberry of IconFactory and Twitterrific sees the options in developing iPhones apps as either “simple and cheap” or “complex and expensive”.

http://furbo.org/2008/12/09/ring-tone-apps/

Same, the last sentence is hard to understand

He’s simply stating that making something simple is much harder to achieve than making it complex. It’s easy to throw every feature you can think of into an app. It’s much much more difficult to find the point where you have the least amount of features required to meet your goal.

That Mark Twain quote is superb.