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What is all this "native" digital medium that he mentions three times in this post? While a lot of metaphors to old ways of doing things (office work, etc.) ma
by mmagin 13y ago
What is all this "native" digital medium that he mentions three times in this post?
While a lot of metaphors to old ways of doing things (office work, etc.) may be clumsy, the "native" interface to the computer is really far too low-level for everyday use.
- krapp 13y agoThat part was confusing. I suspect though it more or less refers to the crux of whatever point he's trying to make, so maybe he needs to run it through a couple more drafts and clarify. Sounds like voodoo to me. He talks about having users provide their own gestural icons... which just seems like it would be a pain to have to come up with a new kind of flourish every time you installed an app, and I supposed speech recognition, which like gestural commands has a place but I don't think necessarily surpasses the utility of "the little orange and blue round thingy makes firefox happen". I mean that's just perfect.