poma:
> Lately half of the off topic threads ends with some sort of a
mobile
> agenda. :)
> Is it really so attractive, or is it just a good job of marketing. :)
David:
Perhaps a sign of the times? :-)
And no I could not replace my desktop with a handheld. But... I can do
one heck of a lot more of my 'away from my desk' business with my
smartphone than just make phone calls.
Most of the time that I see someone playing with their $500 smart phone,
it's just a toy, or a music player. Business users are about the only
ones who actually use it as a tool.
It's all well and good developing Linux for these gadgets, but do that
as a separate thing. Develop an OS for a portable gadget, FOR those
portable gadgets. Don't stuff up an OS for a normal computer to be a
poor OS on both.
Touch screen type of interfaces, don't work on non-touch screen devices,
and are a bad interface for desktop or laptops. And the usual
interfaces that go along with them are appalling for multi-tasking. The
standing joke that to multitask using an iPad requires using more than
one iPad, isn't far from the truth. This is not a good design path to
go down.
It's probably time to define the desktop model (as in user interface,
commonly called Windows Managers) better. If your OS has a desktop
interface, it's for a computer. Handheld devices need a differently
named interface.
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