The tabular structure of early web pages (now outlawed in all but exceptional circumstances, like HTML emaildesign) forced designers to internalize fairly rigid grid principles.
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In my view the only smart reason for this marriage is that all of the security of the Blackberry handset is, by design, embedded in the tablet with regard to email and other functionality.
Time savings aside, the new design simply feels more intuitive: though everything from email to photo editing still takes place in the browser, just knowing there's something behind that window makes the experience feel a little more familiar.
Apple has submitted to the court an email that a Samsung employee sent to his colleagues that included notes about a 2010 design meeting at Google to discuss two Samsung Galaxy tablets.