Die Bilder oben sind keine Designstudie, sondern the real thing. Dieses kleine Schmuckstück wurde the litl getauft und kann ab sofort für $699 im Netz bestellt werden.

Hier ein paar Worte zu den zugrunde liegenden Designprinzipien des litl…

The computer exists to do things you care about, not for its own sake. Today, we liberate your photos, view web sites as channels, and provide a great web experience. Over time, we’ll only add capabilities that home users care about. Everything else, we’ll keep small.
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Our next goal was to improve the user interface. We used a simple rule: Any computer task that had the word “management” next to it had to be eliminated. File management. Gone. Windows management. Gone. You get the idea. All this management came from the earliest days of computing. The definition of an operating system is an interface that let humans interact with hardware. Yeech. I don’t want to interact with my hard drive; I want to interact with my friends. So we focused our user interface on interactions with your content (stuff like photos, mail, web sites) not your computer hardware.

…und hier noch ein Video, in dem die Features des litl sehr genau erklärt werden…

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