on 2012-11-27 13:41 Bruce Walker wrote
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 3:18 PM, steve harley <[email protected]> wrote:
on 2012-11-27 13:10 Bruce Walker wrote
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 3:04 PM, steve harley <[email protected]> wrote:
there are no touch-screen Macs
Besides iPhones, iPads and iPod Touches.
those are Apple products, but they aren't Macs
But they run something awfully darned close to Mac OS X. I know, they
aren't "Mac platforms" like the iMac and Macbooks, etc.
much of Apple's success has come from repurposing mature technologies; we don't
call OS X NeXTSTEP …
But from all the chit-chat I gather that Apple considers the iPhone UI
to be the future in much the same way that Mickeysoft is going with
Win8: a largely touch-screen-oriented UI. So apparently Mac OS X will
start converging to look and act like iOS.
it already has, except there is a clear divide on the touch screen gestures of
iOS versus keyboard & mouse/touchpad of OS X; and there is substantial
chit-chat about Apple supposedly understanding the difference better than Microsoft
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 agree wrt OS X, but i like iOS pretty well; if OS X continues it's current
direction (not touchscreen so much as making the environment more
appliance-like), i may want something different fairly soon
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.
i don't have that much trouble, but it is a confined, compromised environment;
i think we have a lot of evolution ahead in how these devices work
And if both Apple and Mickeysoft are going to foist this stuff on us
there'll be nowhere else to turn. For sure, the Linux crowd will
follow suit.
i understand Richard Stallman is extremely productive doing almost all his work
in plain text with GNU Emacs
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