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They hate it because it sucks. His whole article is about how much and why it sucks. Then he concludes that maybe it doesn't suck. Maybe it's just him. It rem
by msutherl 14y ago
They hate it because it sucks. His whole article is about how much and why it sucks.
Then he concludes that maybe it doesn't suck. Maybe it's just him.
It reminds me of Winston Smith, wondering whether it's he that's insane after all.
- jbigelow76 14y agoThat's kind of a grandiose comparison don't you think? 1984 is a cautionary (prescient?) fable about a totalitarianistic dystopia and the other is a tedious rant about consumer electronics in a shopping mall.
- Ygg2 14y agoThere are some funny parables that can be drawn between 1984 and the way iOS walled garden functions. It's not the same ofc, but to the hacker ethos it behaves in much the same way. EDIT: Just to make sure, by hacker ethos I consider something in the lines of Stallman which is a staunch proponent of tinker everything.
- randomchars 14y agoAnd the way Windows RT's walled garden works?
- seiji 14y agoIt's not about "sucks," it's about the difference between being a market leader and someone trying to emulate a market leader with no understanding of why things are popular. Touch? Sure, let's do touch, but we won't consider human aspects like the size of on screen elements. Gestures? Sure, let's make things swipe and tap and zoom. Why? Why not? The other people do it. Animations? Sure, they are pretty. Let's animate some things. They are optional and meaningless anyway, so we can be sparse and nobody will care. They should be happy we added animations anyway! Wooden tables with see through table toppers with t-shirted employees? It's just the natural order of things. We aren't copying anybody.