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I knew that someone would make that comment, but I thought it would be someone else.![]()
You know I'm working for Apple now, right? Yeah. I quit Samsung. Apple pays better.
I knew that someone would make that comment, but I thought it would be someone else.![]()
I never really understood the people who claimed that OS X was getting 'iOSified' anyway. The Launchpad is incredibly useful; not only is it the quickest way to access all your applications, but it just displays the application within folders.
To anybody who uses loads of third-party music plugins, or even Adobe software as a good example, you'll see they're buried in folders in the Applications folder.
Thank goodness they confirmed it though, it's always a fear that they'll take unified experiences to an extreme.![]()
You know I'm working for Apple now, right? Yeah. I quit Samsung. Apple pays better.
I don't think that anyone here is going to believe you. Especially since your Special Opps. The masses are convinced you work for Samsung.![]()
Let them. Apple doesn't care what they think, and neither do I. Image
Your're just trying to throw people off your trail since your cover was blown. Now Samsung is paying you to pretend that you work for Apple. You're not fooling us. We all know how Samsung operates.![]()
It is really amazing how far technology has come between the two systems in that picture.
As for convergence. I am worried that the next OSX will take an iOS 7 redesign, which won't look right on a desktop system, in my opinion. However, I have agreed with Apple's move toward integrating iOS and OSX without actually uniting them...
Curious how a hybrid would work...
There won't be an convergence in the Windows sense, where one OS serves multiple purposes. It'll be through software, much like what we're seeing with the iWork suite on OSX and iPad. Functionally the same, though designed with different interfaces in mind.
Honestly, I'm starting to think this is the best way to do things. One OS for touch, one OS for mouse and keyboards.
You seem to think 'convergence' is ... about making an interface that responds equally well, under all usage scenarios and conditions, to both a pointing device and your finger via a touchscreen. Since there are fundamental differences (pros and cons) to each of these input methods, any attempt to cater to both in a single interface is doomed ...
This is strength of Windows 8--it is a hybrid, not an attempted convergence. It works great with touch and any pointer interface. But an ios/osx hybrid would be a much better product--if only because ios and its infrastructure is so much more developed, and osx has not yet become truly awful
You seem to think 'convergence' is a simple matter of giving a tablet more processing power, or making a MacBook smaller! Those things are incidental. It's about making an interface that responds equally well, under all usage scenarios and conditions, to both a pointing device and your finger via a touchscreen. Since there are fundamental differences (pros and cons) to each of these input methods, any attempt to cater to both in a single interface is doomed to mediocrity. It might be okay for both, but it won't be great at either.
"Convergence" is the wrong word. "Intersection" is a bit more along the lines of what I am envisioning. For example, I think it would be awesome if you could attach a mouse and keyboard to the "iPad Pro" and have it run an OS that has more of the features
I don't care about merging the software, but I'd really like to merge the hardware. It's crazy to have an iPad Air and a MacBook Air instead of just one device with a removable top
Apple gets it.
Microsoft doesn't.
And why would that change in the future? Are people about to evolve fingers capable of the same precision as a pointing device, or arms which are capable of extending out to a vertical screen for hours without fatiguing?
Tim Cook never said we're doubling down on secrecy, Steve Jobs never said they wouldn't make a smaller iPad and he never said the original iPhone was the ideal size. Whatever you say.![]()
I agree. A tablet is fundamentally a handheld touch device. You put a desktop operating system on it, and you have a hot mess. You merge desktop and touch UI, and you have a hot mess. You make the tablet larger (say 12inches) to handle the desktop OS, and you have an awkward handheld device and another hot mess.
I am not saying that it can never be done, but so far, the attempts to merge touch and desktop OS have not appealed to me. Furthermore, there is really no advantage to owning a single hybrid device. With cloud syncing, I can move almost seamlessly between my iPad and my desktop. I don't think the cost of buying two devices is a big difference, since I can buy a Mac Mini plus iPad for the same price as a Macbook.......I assume an Apple laptop-tablet hybrid with touch screen and retina would cost at least as much as a retina MacBook Pro.
Why do you think so? because this is something that people are clamoring for because it "makes sense"? If the former, please point me to this clamor, other than MS and Windows 8. if the latter, please explain why...