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Re:A Disturbing Dialog About Ubuntu and Unity by Someone on Thursday November 03, 2011 @04:42AM (#3190851)
a concept of an "app" makes no sense on a modern desktop, and windows is what users want to manage, not "apps"

I do not disagree with you (long live OpenDoc ;-)), but as a counterpoint: users buy _apps_, not _windows_.

As long as that is the case, apps do make sense on a desktop.

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Re:A Disturbing Dialog About Ubuntu and Unity by lwhi on Thursday November 03, 2011 @04:47AM (#3190864)
Personally, I think users want to manage and navigate documents (not Apps or Windows).
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Re:A Disturbing Dialog About Ubuntu and Unity by Sandman on Thursday November 03, 2011 @05:17AM (#3190934)
Could you elaborate on this further? I ask this because not every application is about document processing.
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Re:A Disturbing Dialog About Ubuntu and Unity by lwhi on Thursday November 03, 2011 @05:20AM (#3190941)
Perhaps document was the wrong term. I think that 'content' (either via creation, management or consumption) is central to all we do with a computer. I think that a successful UI would focus on this fact.
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