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> not merely a computer in everyone's hand but a far more 'personal' and capable device than any Win 95 PC ever was. I don't know if it's just me, but my feeli
by cesarb 7y ago
> not merely a computer in everyone's hand but a far more 'personal' and capable device than any Win 95 PC ever was.
I don't know if it's just me, but my feeling is that a Win 95 PC is far more "personal" than any modern smartphone. With a smartphone, you are limited by whatever the mass-produced OS and apps allow (and it's getting worse - more recent OS releases allow much less access to the filesystem, for instance), while a Win 95 PC was wide open and could be customized the way you wanted - in the extreme, the whole operating system could be easily replaced.
That is: when I use my smartphone, I feel like I'm a guest at a Google-owned hotel. When I use my PC, I feel like I'm at my own home.
- pvg 7y agoWell, in the extreme you can gut your phone to make it pretend to run Win 95. But that isn't really what I'm talking about, my point is the idea that there's been no work done on UI recently seems plainly inaccurate to me. The last 10 or so years of UI have seen more drastic and widely adopted changes in modes of interaction than the decade between the original Mac and Win 95.