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Re:The iPhone Software Revolution by mixmax on Thursday June 25, 2009 @10:43AM (#673707)
The bad usability and user friendliness in free software is a product of the process, namely that anyone can change anything, and that there isn't one master designer. The reason Apple's products work so well is that there's a strict hierarchy, and only one person gets to decide how the product looks.

This won't change.

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Re:The iPhone Software Revolution by stalf on Thursday June 25, 2009 @10:56AM (#673736)
It is changing. Canonical's CEO (Mark Shuttleworth) said their aim is to deploy interfaces as good as Apple's.

What do you say about projects like GnomeDo with great interface?

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Re:The iPhone Software Revolution by igorgue on Thursday June 25, 2009 @11:04AM (#673755)
I totally agree and we can name a lot of apps... people, use the software before criticizing!

IMHO yes, there are some OS X apps that are very good in usability but there are a lot of exceptions:

Banshee > iTunes Gnome-do > Quicksilver (even though this is not from Apple) Nautilus > Finder (yes this is very true)

I'm not even mentioning the apps that just don't exist in OS X: a real multi-desktop, Tomboy (even though there is a port), a real app manager.

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