“Subcompact cars are usually either utilitarian, but uninspiring or they’re fun, zippy cars that are impractical and too expensive for the Gen-Y buyer,” said Dave Marek, Design Director at Honda R&D Americas, Inc. “GEAR Concept tears down those walls – it’s practical but fun, customizable, connected and affordable. Everything that young, discerning urban buyers would want in a car.”
by Peter Torr.
The basic premise is that the phone (and hence the applications on it) consist of a set of “places.” A place is a “user-recognizable collection of persistent state” (thanks to Alan Bush for that succinct description!) or in layman’s terms it’s a screen that the user visits that contains information, content, or links to other places. Now since a picture is worth a thousand words, let’s take a look at the structure of a typical content-browsing application…
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