On Oct 22, 2010, at 6:50 AM, Scott G. Lewis wrote: > A computer is not a tablet is not a phone. Apple is the only one who seems to > fully appreciate that, therefore it would seem strange to expect 100% of the > iOS experience to become the norm on a notebook. > Exactly! It's odd that Apple seems to be herding its flock into a certain "this is what you want" workflow, when one size doesn't fit all. Why not have different workflow/UI experiences for different folks? Maybe its just me, but I really hate the dumbed-down UI thing, a la iPad. Yeah it works on a tiny scale, like with an iPhone, but with lots of screen real estate and CPU, c'mon.
> Proof: He specifically mentioned they played with touch screens on notebooks > and found it didn't work well. > Theres truth in that, but its too simplistic a conclusion. I think it *does* work for certain things, just not everything, or even most things. But why not support it for those things it works well for, instead of cutting it off and disallowing anyone the use of it? On Oct 22, 2010, at 6:56 AM, Scott G. Lewis wrote: > But everybody seems to continually confuse "something helpful to consumers" > and "I do business on the Mac, and I need this specific workflow". > I think its Apple that's conflating the two. Why not allow the users to customize their own workflow and UI experience? That's what people spend a lot of time doing anyway, with the desktop, the dock, folders, etc. trying to get their own custom environment. What's the first thing you do with stuff you buy, a cell phone, a car, a PC game, an apartment: customize it to the way *you* want to use it, not necessarily the way the designers thought you would use it. _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
