You know, the CLI might very well be one of the things that people feel is faster, but actually isn't. Do you have any studies to shoe that a CLI is faster for power users (by which I suspect you mean sysadmins and tinkerers mainly)? I am genuinely curious, because I often find myself pausing to remember a keyboard shortcut (or hitting the wrong one) for long enough that I could have used a mouse-driven menu to get what I want faster. I really do wonder what the best approach is.
While I generally agree with your post, I think you're wrong about graphic designers loving Flash, specifically Flash the content creation tool. I think most of them would love to see a complete replacement -- I know I would. The most common complaints are that it's buggy and slow, it's drawing tools are a complete mess (neither like Photoshop or Illustrator, but an ungodly compromise between the two), and that it's keyframing, timeline, and motion tools all suck (compared to, say, After Effects).
Adobe tries to make out that their applications work together seemlessly, so it seems like you could use After Effects as your animation program and export to Flash. In reality, it's all broken.
One of the biggest complaints I have about Flash is that neither Macromedia nor Adobe could make up their mind as to whether it's an IDE or an animation application. Hence, it sucks at both. Years ago before they bought Macromedia, Adobe bought a Flash-animating application called Ground Zero (I think they released it as LiveMotion). It was for animating, and it was a joy to work with. Fast, as hell, really easy to use animating tools. They killed it after version 1.
So, to sum up, I think the market is wide-open to replace Flash, even the content creation tool. There's not a lot of love for it.
Exactly! That's what I bought my iPod Touch for. If the iPad had been out, I would have got that. It would also serve as small computer to take out of the house (I have a desktop) when I expect I'll want to write anything or show people something.
You're right. If you look at large-scale collaborations between "creatives", such as film making, they are often strictly hierarchical--and often tyrannical--enterprises.
Artists use macs because the design of the UI is the nicest thing out there. Windows, Gnome and KDE look amateurish by comparison. For most people that's fine, the UI looks good enough. However, for most people who really care about design, good enough won't cut it. All this talk about being different, or open, or whatever is horseshit. Macs have the most carefully and attractively designed UI, that's it.
Much of what you're saying is probably true, but there has been some movement. Ubuntu is overall as easy to use as Windows. Some things (like repositories and their associated application installation system) are definitely a lot better. I say this as a Mac user who will almost certainly never switch to either.
The most-used apps on the iPhone (and probably any other smart phone) are Google's. There is nothing Apple offers that anybody outside its 1% sliver of the phone market cares about.
Dude, you've got this seriously wrong, iTunes is the killer app. The iPhone isn't really a smart phone, it's an iPod with a built in phone. It got people who don't even know what a smart phone is buying them.
Android is a smart phone users/geeks gadget, I don't think the overlap is that great.
Agreed, but when somebody in a democracy is having their rightful liberties trampled, even if it's within the law, dismissing the problem as "well, they voted for it" is fallacious. It's a tyranny of the majority, and it some ways that's worse than a dictatorship.
They vote for him, thus they get what they want and deserve.
Except--and this is a really critical point, many (probably nearly half) of the people did nothing of the sort! Why should they live under an oppressive ruler who they did not vote for?
Specifically these variables:
ne = the average number of planets that can potentially support life per star that has planets
fe = the fraction of the above that actually go on to develop life at some point
Indeed. There is no way the Chinese government would let google go uncensored. However, this might be a boost for those in the government pushing for China to be more open.
Come on Discovery channel is way more than explosions. They got computer generated imagery of monsters, shark bites, more monsters, disgusting food from tribals, some more monsters, disaster videos, and some monsters, some more shark bites and did I mention monsters?
Fixed that for you.
Discovery channel "dinosaurs" don't have much to do with dinosaurs.
These are just the ones I can come up with off the top of my head. Basically, any market that is not "consumer electronics" is beyond the scope of what Apple does. Even within consumer electronics, there are submarkets that they are not touching, like gaming. None of these markets are being targeted by this tablet, and I am guessing that most of them are not even on Apple's radar. After all, there is no need for "pretty" or "trendy" in telemetry or automotive systems.
Well, they are starting in on gaming with the iPod Touch. There were a few articles a while back on slashdot talking about how Apple was disrupting the (casual, not hardcore) gaming market.
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You know, the CLI might very well be one of the things that people feel is faster, but actually isn't. Do you have any studies to shoe that a CLI is faster for power users (by which I suspect you mean sysadmins and tinkerers mainly)? I am genuinely curious, because I often find myself pausing to remember a keyboard shortcut (or hitting the wrong one) for long enough that I could have used a mouse-driven menu to get what I want faster. I really do wonder what the best approach is.
While I generally agree with your post, I think you're wrong about graphic designers loving Flash, specifically Flash the content creation tool. I think most of them would love to see a complete replacement -- I know I would. The most common complaints are that it's buggy and slow, it's drawing tools are a complete mess (neither like Photoshop or Illustrator, but an ungodly compromise between the two), and that it's keyframing, timeline, and motion tools all suck (compared to, say, After Effects).
Adobe tries to make out that their applications work together seemlessly, so it seems like you could use After Effects as your animation program and export to Flash. In reality, it's all broken.
One of the biggest complaints I have about Flash is that neither Macromedia nor Adobe could make up their mind as to whether it's an IDE or an animation application. Hence, it sucks at both. Years ago before they bought Macromedia, Adobe bought a Flash-animating application called Ground Zero (I think they released it as LiveMotion). It was for animating, and it was a joy to work with. Fast, as hell, really easy to use animating tools. They killed it after version 1.
So, to sum up, I think the market is wide-open to replace Flash, even the content creation tool. There's not a lot of love for it.
I wonder if Apple's making Adobe look weak to lower it's share price for a takeover...
Google is sucking more and more. All queries return pretty much the same thing: #1 Wikipedia x, #2- portals and link farms.
Actually IE5 for mac had SVG support back in... 2001? Also full PNG support. Best browser Microsoft ever made.
But a real correlation (i.e. not a fluke) does imply causation, it just doesn't tell you where the causation coming from.
You find the tube confusing?
Actually, it's Java and Flash, not your browser per se, but yeah it's a bit disturbing.
Newer 10" netbooks have a normal-sized keyboards. They aren't much wider than the 7-9" ones, and generally thinner.
I have an iPod Touch. I have always thought I wanted a 10-inch iPod Touch, because I use it for web browsing and eBook reading.
Exactly! That's what I bought my iPod Touch for. If the iPad had been out, I would have got that. It would also serve as small computer to take out of the house (I have a desktop) when I expect I'll want to write anything or show people something.
Wow, tell us more about the stupid sheeple, oh insightful one!
You're right. If you look at large-scale collaborations between "creatives", such as film making, they are often strictly hierarchical--and often tyrannical--enterprises.
Artists use macs because the design of the UI is the nicest thing out there. Windows, Gnome and KDE look amateurish by comparison. For most people that's fine, the UI looks good enough. However, for most people who really care about design, good enough won't cut it. All this talk about being different, or open, or whatever is horseshit. Macs have the most carefully and attractively designed UI, that's it.
Much of what you're saying is probably true, but there has been some movement. Ubuntu is overall as easy to use as Windows. Some things (like repositories and their associated application installation system) are definitely a lot better. I say this as a Mac user who will almost certainly never switch to either.
The most-used apps on the iPhone (and probably any other smart phone) are Google's. There is nothing Apple offers that anybody outside its 1% sliver of the phone market cares about.
Dude, you've got this seriously wrong, iTunes is the killer app. The iPhone isn't really a smart phone, it's an iPod with a built in phone. It got people who don't even know what a smart phone is buying them.
Android is a smart phone users/geeks gadget, I don't think the overlap is that great.
Agreed, but when somebody in a democracy is having their rightful liberties trampled, even if it's within the law, dismissing the problem as "well, they voted for it" is fallacious. It's a tyranny of the majority, and it some ways that's worse than a dictatorship.
They vote for him, thus they get what they want and deserve.
Except--and this is a really critical point, many (probably nearly half) of the people did nothing of the sort! Why should they live under an oppressive ruler who they did not vote for?
. From not only a scientific point of view with the near complete annihilation of Drake's equation ...
Err, this would help us pin down one of the variables in the drake equation, not destroy it!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation#The_equation
Specifically these variables:
ne = the average number of planets that can potentially support life per star that has planets
fe = the fraction of the above that actually go on to develop life at some point
Indeed. There is no way the Chinese government would let google go uncensored. However, this might be a boost for those in the government pushing for China to be more open.
To be fair, some are superior remakes. The new Battlestar Galactica is far better than the old one.
Why is this stupid joke always modded up? Enough already.
Come on Discovery channel is way more than explosions. They got computer generated imagery of monsters, shark bites, more monsters, disgusting food from tribals, some more monsters, disaster videos, and some monsters, some more shark bites and did I mention monsters?
Fixed that for you.
Discovery channel "dinosaurs" don't have much to do with dinosaurs.
These are just the ones I can come up with off the top of my head. Basically, any market that is not "consumer electronics" is beyond the scope of what Apple does. Even within consumer electronics, there are submarkets that they are not touching, like gaming. None of these markets are being targeted by this tablet, and I am guessing that most of them are not even on Apple's radar. After all, there is no need for "pretty" or "trendy" in telemetry or automotive systems.
Well, they are starting in on gaming with the iPod Touch. There were a few articles a while back on slashdot talking about how Apple was disrupting the (casual, not hardcore) gaming market.
Jeez, enough with the stupid surrender monkey shit. Honestly.