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No it will not pay off, do you want Ferrari's to have a crappy engine to deliver a unified experience between city cars and race cars? No you don't. And for us
by Aardwolf 14y ago
No it will not pay off, do you want Ferrari's to have a crappy engine to deliver a unified experience between city cars and race cars?
No you don't. And for user interfaces it's the same.
A desktop computer provides a lot more space than a mobile device, so just because mobile devices exist, is no reason to suddenly make a design meant for small screens on the big screen with comfortable input devices.
- codeulike 14y agoTo draw on your Ferrari analogy: Ferrari market to a tiny percentage of the car driving consumers as a whole. So of course that would make no sense. Also, Ferrari drivers don't tend to also drive Minis, so why have a unified experience. PC-users and Tablet-users and Phone-users are all huge, mainstream, overlapping markets. I can see there might be some trade offs and problems with unifying experience - which is why I said this is a brave move by Microsoft. But you're basically bringing up one of the trade offs (screen size) and using that to write off the whole initiative.