On Oct 20, 2010, at 3:29 PM, Bill Cheeseman wrote: > > But I must say that the presentation scared me.
To me, the iOS model seems passable for mobile devices but I fear its invasion of the OSX desktop. My first impression of iOS/iPad was "wow, it's so dumbed down, how do you actually do any work on it?" A friend of mine disliked her 1st iPad experience mainly because she couldn't chat and surf at the same time. She want's to run 3 or 4 things all at once. Why not? Its a natural workflow to multithread and not have one app hog the entire GUI. But iOS shoe-horns you into a 1-window-per-screen-per-app-at-a-time model. That may work for some workflows where you only want to be doing one thing at a time, but I think it's going the wrong way for the desktop in general. Lion = iOS + OSX would be okay if it stays an optional 'crossover' or 'overlap', but evolutionary-wise it looks like the high-productivity desktop of todays OSX isn't long for the chopping block. Will we end up needing special developer systems like we do now for iPhone/iPad/iPod because OSX won't support our current usage of it? Maybe the almost year away release date of Lion means this presentation was meant in one sense as a trial balloon to see how the changes in Lion would be received? _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
