Windows 8 is going to send everybody into overtime re-working all their guis not only for touch but to fit that one-Window 70/30 paradigm. They will also have to develop the active icon paradigm for every app or the app will not compare favorbly to others with cool active icons. It will all surely happen, and it's exciting. But is the Apple-driven market trend to replace most people's PCs with less flexible and powerful, portable narrow-purpose appliances a good trend? I worry that we may lose the "personal" in personal computer some day (but then I've been saying that for 20 years). I think it's important that Joe Geek can choose whatever hardware components he wants, build his own machine, and choose his own software, so he can continue to innovate, solve new problems, etc. That's what the PC revolution really was (and, I think, still is to a great extent). I don't think the dumbed-down appliance with a locked-down OS has to kill the powerful, flexible and "dangerously unsecure" OS, but it might make it more expensive, difficult to find components and software to fill your needs if your a future geek.polaris20 wrote:But their UI will positively suck on a tablet. I don't see how Windows 8 changes that, unless third party devs start coding a separate UI into their apps specifically for tablet use.
Also, it's completely silly to say "iPad is dead" or "Apple is finished". Last time I looked, there's no reason why there can't be more than one device, more than one OS.
I agree more competition can only be good, and since I'm American, I like to see Apple doing well and MS doing something fresh.
This is a cool, exciting thing