Re:Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and C...
by soneil on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @06:03PM
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I have to agree that sharing the UI seems like a dead-end.
We saw this in the leap from WinCE to the iPhone, and from tablets that were essentially laptops with the monitor facing outwards, to iOS & android tablets. Besides the hardware finally getting to the right place, designing the UI for the experience was a huge leap.
"Convergence" feels far too much like trying to compromise one to suit the other, right when we've finally learnt not to do that.
We saw this in the leap from WinCE to the iPhone, and from tablets that were essentially laptops with the monitor facing outwards, to iOS & android tablets. Besides the hardware finally getting to the right place, designing the UI for the experience was a huge leap.
"Convergence" feels far too much like trying to compromise one to suit the other, right when we've finally learnt not to do that.