<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/6/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michele Manzato</b> <<a href="mailto:michele.manzato@verona.miz.it">michele.manzato@verona.miz.it</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">[Due to bad UI]
Even today I would never, ever buy a Motorola! </font></span></div></div></blockquote><div>I never personally owned a motorola, but it's far from being the first time I hear rants about their poor usability indeed. I also agree that Nokia produces rather well designed UIs, at least when compared to other makers.
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<span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">To me, GUI
usability is probably the most prominent factor of success in a
product when it comes to sales. </font></span></font></span></div></div></blockquote><div><br>To me, it ought to be, but facts prove that it isn't: I've almost never heard a marketing speech focused on this (except for iPhone); and if it were considered critical, I can't believe phone makers couldn't do a bit better than that.
<br><br>And it's not that surprising, if you come to think of it: as a customer, you've got very limited opportunities to judge a phone's usability until you've bought it and it's too late. There's the word of mouth between users, but models are renewed so fast that a reputation for usability hardly has time to develop before the phone is obsolete. The only thing we can rely on is coarse generalizations, such as your "Motorola UIs suck, don't buy Motorola".
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