On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 3:56 PM, John Francis <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 03:41:01PM -0500, Bruce Walker wrote: > > > > Frankly this scares me more than a little. I don't want to have to > > deal with dumbed-down interfaces where you have to try and convince > > the machine what you want to do. I've likened attempts to browse on an > > iPhone to working an elevator wearing boxing gloves. If you whack > > repeatedly at it you may eventually get it do what you want, but it's > > a real pisser. > > Let's face it - you (and I) aren't the target market.
Which is exactly the attitude that concerns me. I'm not doom and gloom paranoid enough to think that the industry leaders will simply stop addressing the part of the market who aren't adroit enough to deal with these touch screens, but it's not completely out of the realm of possibility. I see the iPad/iPhone UI (and Win8 as far as I can see) as a UI tuned for consumers of info, not creators. That's fine, as long as creators needs aren't ignored. If creator's needs are thwarted, then where will that content that consumers crave come from? There just better continue to be an escape hatch to Old Fart Mode or there's gonna be trouble. :-) -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
