On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 8:15 PM, laurent laffont <[email protected]>wrote:
> > > On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 7:36 PM, Mariano Martinez Peck < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Alexandre Bergel <[email protected] >> > wrote: >> >>> >> Which is? >>> >> >>> >> Alexandre >>> > >>> > I read prediction Android may take it all. >>> > >>> > Remember the '80 with the PC open standard? Now it is the software >>> which >>> > is standard and pretty sure the Asian manufacturers will jump into, no? >>> >>> Ah ah! I have a different opinion. I think the humanity, now, cannot >>> produce a reliable and efficient operating system that works on many >>> different platforms while caring about the user. >> >> >> Do you want to build the best OS ever? Just write a nice/sexy UI with: >> >> - a program to chat with all MSN/iChat/skype/etc >> - firefox (consider using a that a microsoft office like website for >> words, excels, etc) >> - a program to listen to music >> - a program to watch videos >> - a program to read pdfs >> >> And that's all. You have covered 90% of the needs of 90% of the existen >> users. >> An OS that never fails, and that has just 5 buttons for those things, is >> all they need. Don't even put names to programs, jsut: "chat" "internet" >> "music" "videos" and "pictures" >> > > cool ! An OS flamewar begins ! Love this. Linux rulez !!!!! > > sure. Whatever. (I was a linux guy too, but now I have a mac hahah). Pute those 6 buttons in fullscreen, with those 6 tols and you have the perfect and easy to understand/use OS. > Laurent > > > >> >> cheers >> >> mariano >> >> >> >> >>> The effort is simply too big. Microsoft knows about it. State-of-the-Art >>> formal verification techniques simply cannot ensure that a driver will not >>> crash your machine. And so, whatever the amount of money poured into it. >>> >>> By shipping the hardware, Apple is playing on a safe side. So, in my >>> opinion, something like Ipad will rule on some point: a few different >>> platforms, gorgeous interface, regarding the user as an intelligent being. >>> >>> Alexandre >>> -- >>> _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: >>> Alexandre Bergel http://www.bergel.eu >>> ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >
