Arthur Fuller
fuller.artful at gmail.com
Tue Jun 11 03:53:13 CDT 2013
At the moment I have here a friend's new Dell laptop with Win8 installed, and I guess it was a good idea to retire, because I find this UI the most balling and frustrating experience of my life. So does my friend, who owns this new laptop. She's asked me to reformat it and convert it back to Windows 7. At first I was dubious about this move, but after the last few days, I'm beginning to think that she is right. AFAICS, the whole concept behind this OS is asinine. As for tablets, Android on an Acer or Nexus 7 is lovely. On my trusty aging desktop, I have no plans to change anything, other than apply the usual Tuesday patches from MS. Sometimes I wish that I still had a DOS box and Clipper. That was a comfortable environment! On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 4:15 AM, Hans-Christian Andersen < hans.andersen at phulse.com> wrote: > I think you are disregarding the fact that Metro has been a failure for > Microsoft, because it was too much of a change for users to adapt to. > Someone got fired for that, if you recall. > > Also, the UI/UX of iOS is in the complete control of a designer. > > The jury is still very much out - even more so than ever. > > - Hans > > > On 2013-06-11, at 1:05 AM, "Gustav Brock" <gustav at cactus.dk> wrote: > > > Hi Shamil > > > > Skeuomorphism sure looks dead. And thanks for that. > > > > After the introduction of Metro/Modern UI, I was convinced that in a few > years skeuomorphism would be so much yesterday. > > The new design of iOS settles this. > > > > Now the Linux people are the left behinds ... > > > > /gustav > > > > -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- > > Fra: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto: > dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] På vegne af Salakhetdinov Shamil > > Sendt: 11. juni 2013 08:54 > > Til: Discussion of Hardware and Softw > > Emne: [dba-Tech] Skeuomorphic UIs are dead? Apple to follow MS Win8 UI > design principles with iOS7? > > > > > > Hi All -- > > > > See subj questions and the following links: > > > > http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/10/apple-ios-7/ > > > > > http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/10/take-a-good-look-at-apples-new-ios-7-with-these-early-screenshots/ > > > > > http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/10/apples-flashlight-is-why-we-cant-fund-nice-dumb-things/ > > > > etc. > > > > it looks like iOS7 is preparing for iOS8 to get running transparently on > "Apple Pince-nez"?... > > > > > > -- > > Салахетдинов Шамиль > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > dba-Tech mailing list > > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > -- Arthur Cell: 647.710.1314 Prediction is difficult, especially of the future. -- Niels Bohr