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I'd like to agree with Marco's argument (and probably do over the long run). At the very least, I certainly hope this particular argument is correct. But, seri
by fpgeek 14y ago
I'd like to agree with Marco's argument (and probably do over the long run). At the very least, I certainly hope this particular argument is correct.
But, seriously, the cognitive dissonance on display here is absolutely breathtaking. This is the exact argument Android fans make about iOS. If he wants his argument to be convincing, he needs to address the elephant in the room.
- geofft 14y agoThe iOS sandbox is less restrictive in practice than the Mac App Store one. iOS manages to give a perfectly fine user experience by partitioning the user's home directory per application. Getting away with that on the desktop is harder. It's a different paradigm -- very few Android users, I'd bet, interact with the file manager on a regular basis. Every Mac user uses the Finder.
- fpgeek 14y agoSure. I'm not saying there aren't arguments to be made about the difference. What I am saying is that Marco needs to actually make one if he wants to be convincing here. That being said, I'll make two other points: 1. File managers aren't a good example of the benefits of Android's relative lack of restrictions for non-geek users. Good examples are alternative browsers (like Firefox - the best Gingerbread browser, IMO) and alternative, full-featured stores of all kinds (app/books/music/...). 2. Given items like this ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4292754 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4292754 )suggesting that Apple is trying to bring the iOS file system concepts to the Mac, I don't think I'd base an argument on how today's Mac users use the file system.