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Key point of the article is insightful and generally applicable. The stronger Android is, the more likely features which everyone want but Apple resists show up
by jacobscott 18y ago
Key point of the article is insightful and generally applicable. The stronger Android is, the more likely features which everyone want but Apple resists show up on the iPhone.
I'm also patiently waiting for Linux to catch up to OSX in usability/UI.
- msie 18y ago"I'm also patiently waiting for Linux to catch up to OSX in usability/UI." That gave me a chuckle. The first thing that the Linux world should do is decide on one UI to use but that will never happen. It is philosophically impossible.
- ii 18y agoAs it was "impossible" for Apple to decide when all they had was the old Macintosh toolbox and NextStep UIs, but they did it. They made Carbon/Cocoa to look reasonably consistent despite huge internal differences. Linux can do the same with Qt/GTK+/etc. It certainly possible to have high-level UI consistency between multiple toolkits, especially when they all share the same lower-level stuff (X11/Cairo).
- iron_ball 18y ago"Philosophically." With Apple, they had mechanisms of corporate governance to simply declare a standardization plan and follow it, and require developers to follow suit. Linux, not so much.
- omouse 18y agoLinux is a kernel, so I think you mean the X11 window managers that exist...like GNOME or KDE.
- jacobscott 18y agoSorry, I used linux in the colloquial sense. I meant GNU/Linux, distributions of which I can install on my hardware. Anything that would replace OSX, Windows, etc...