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No one expects Microsoft to retrench from touch, nor does anyone misunderstand what they were trying to do: They wanted to leverage their desktop dominance into
by corresation 13y ago
No one expects Microsoft to retrench from touch, nor does anyone misunderstand what they were trying to do: They wanted to leverage their desktop dominance into some mobile/tablet marketshare. Many words can be spilled justifying this (unifying being one), but the stark reality is that it degraded the experience on the mouse and keyboard desktop, where the design simply followed the desire to get into what Apple was having success at.
- leoc 13y agoAnd ofc Apple, in turn, spent much of its 30-years-of-Macintosh celebration making indirect slams on the Metroisation of Windows and the whole desktop/touch-unification idea http://www.macworld.com/article/2090829/apple-executives-on-the-mac-at-30-the-mac-keeps-going-forever.html http://www.macworld.com/article/2090829/apple-executives-on-... "You don’t want to say the Mac became less good at being a Mac because someone tried to turn it into iOS." etc.