Salakhetdinov Shamil
mcp2004 at mail.ru
Tue Jun 11 04:08:29 CDT 2013
Hi Arthur -- You and your friend better adapt - that seems to be the mainstream trend: "Apple Publishes iOS 7 Transition Guide To Help Developers Adopt Flat Design" http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/10/apple-publishes-ios-7-transition-guide-to-help-developers-adopt-flat-design/ -- Shamil Tuesday, June 11, 2013 4:53 AM -04:00 from Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com>: >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 >>\ <<< skipped >>>