New things are hard for most people to grasp, and so they don't see the innovation. Innovators have to spend a lot of time trying to demonstrate their innovation. In this matter, Apple has hardly done a good job explaining the innovations; they seem to have expected everyone else to look at the announcements and to put them into context. Obviously that hasn't happened, and everyone is saying that Apple made meager announcements, with nothing cool. Paul is one of the blind people, and most of Slashdot is blind too. Paul says that Time Machine was already implemented by Windows. That is balloney. Earlier, the Slashdot crowd claimed that Time Machine reimplements VMS's file system. That is balloney. Time Machine is too innovative for you guys to see why it is awesome, so here is my attempt at explaining it, to make it clear that innovation is hard to spot:
http://slashdot.org/~XMLsucks/journal/141549
Desktops and hand helds have very different requirements than mainframes, and thus when someone migrates a mainframe solution to a consumer environment, they often have to redesign. Apple's solution for Time Travel has massive integration with the applications to give a nice user experience; I've never seen such integration offered by versioning file systems before. This is quite a move forward.
Apple actually designs their user experiences. They didn't copy a virtual desktop from someone else. They *designed* a solution that gives the best experience. Design is something that for-profit companies do. And this is such a minor feature from their package of enhancements, that it is really lame to pick on it.
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New things are hard for most people to grasp, and so they don't see the innovation. Innovators have to spend a lot of time trying to demonstrate their innovation. In this matter, Apple has hardly done a good job explaining the innovations; they seem to have expected everyone else to look at the announcements and to put them into context. Obviously that hasn't happened, and everyone is saying that Apple made meager announcements, with nothing cool. Paul is one of the blind people, and most of Slashdot is blind too. Paul says that Time Machine was already implemented by Windows. That is balloney. Earlier, the Slashdot crowd claimed that Time Machine reimplements VMS's file system. That is balloney. Time Machine is too innovative for you guys to see why it is awesome, so here is my attempt at explaining it, to make it clear that innovation is hard to spot: http://slashdot.org/~XMLsucks/journal/141549
Desktops and hand helds have very different requirements than mainframes, and thus when someone migrates a mainframe solution to a consumer environment, they often have to redesign. Apple's solution for Time Travel has massive integration with the applications to give a nice user experience; I've never seen such integration offered by versioning file systems before. This is quite a move forward.
Apple actually designs their user experiences. They didn't copy a virtual desktop from someone else. They *designed* a solution that gives the best experience. Design is something that for-profit companies do. And this is such a minor feature from their package of enhancements, that it is really lame to pick on it.