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"That's the same year that multi-touch interfaces exploded, low power consumption became key, and the tired, old trappings of faux-desktops were finally set asi
by krig 15y ago
"That's the same year that multi-touch interfaces exploded, low power consumption became key, and the tired, old trappings of faux-desktops were finally set aside for something completely new. "
Funnily, this statement sounds a lot more like it is spoken by someone who has fallen in love, in this case someone infatuated with multi-touch interfaces and so on.
It sounds like the author is arguing that new is automatically better. I mean, I think I understand the point he is trying to make about being trapped in the familiar and being unable to appreciate new approaches, I just don't think it's said very well here. Is he claiming that input interfaces and power consumption are areas of technology that are seeing high innovation and rapid adoption of new ideas, in contrast to the area of build systems and editors? That seems patently absurd to me. Input devices have barely changed at all since the typewriter (the exception would be the invention of the mouse), and although touch interfaces have uses in some areas, in others they are not an improvement at all - one new piece of input technology making it into general use since the sixties does not rapid innovation make. Oh, and build systems and editors are the two things where there are new approaches popping up all the time. The latest I heard was that google Go will ship version 1 with their own build system, for example.
- wladimir 15y agoIt reads like a rambling. He's pitting Linux advocates against touch technology? I don't even understand why. Android is based on Linux, and Ubuntu has been developing a touch-friendly interface for a long time. And what does that have to do with makefiles? Is there suddenly some magical "miniority report" touch wand that replaces them? (yes, I know there are alternative systems, but they're generally a new syntax for representing the same thing) "Absurd" is indeed the appropriate word. Too much of the tech brochure cool-aid...
- shoover 15y agoForget the details. They are examples. Back up. Make something.
- wladimir 15y agoHuh? Like "don't read the article, that's just details, make something!". But it can't be Linux-based? Or use makefiles? To "make something" you do need to care about details. At least a bit (depending on the complexity).
- shoover 15y agoNo, like read the article and get the point he's trying to make instead of insisting that he's judging one tool against another.
- shoover 15y agoClick around and read some archives on that blog. The author writes lots of interesting things about all different kinds of technology, lots of it quite old. But he also writes from a perspective of what it means to him. Far from infatuation with the latest and greatest from Apple. That's an example, for crying out loud. Just read the last paragraph of the OP over and over until it sinks in.
- krig 15y agoI don't think I mentioned Apple? You say it's an example, but an example of what? If I misunderstood what he meant, then perhaps you can enlighten me. I did the read the last paragraph of the OP, and I tried to summarize my interpretation of it in my post. If you disagree, perhaps it would be helpful if you shared your point of view. Just telling me to read it again is not very informative.