On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Jonathon Kuo < [email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > So don't buy the iPad... I mean, we can't even seriously have a debate as to whether or not that's a valuable product. There have been TabletPCs for years that didn't sell much at all to businesses, and not at all to consumers. The iPad sells by the truckload. There's no question people want that simplified environment for certain tasks. > > 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? > Who has disallowed it? They just won't make a MacBook Pro Touch. There's nothing stopping you from buying a Wacom digitizer, and they even maintain handwriting recognition in the system for those who choose it. I don't know that there are any monitors with mac drivers and touch interfaces (I think someone just recently bemoaned this fact on the lists), but there's nothing preventing a third party from doing it. The general lack of such a monitor kinda speaks towards the perceived market for such a device. > 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. > They aren't removing any of those features from 10.7. They are just allowing for apps to eschew that.
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