How about a real, honest to god dynamic programming environment that offers live updating of code on the fly? (We had that in 1980: Smalltalk)
Or maybe a handheld computer that *isn't* trying to be a clone of a desktop OS, to the point that it is more or less a horrible hack that is barely usable as a remote access device?
Windows is, simply put, a shoddy UI over a crappy OS running on budget hardware produced by manufacturers racing to the bottom. The fact that much of the Windows 'ecosystem' is comprised of creating solutions for problems that Windows *creates* should say something. Think about what might be arriving in the market if all those folks and resources were freed up to do something *new* instead of just trying to plug the holes in the Titanic. It's just a colossal waste of time and money.
Consumers are finally figuring out that computers *don't* have to be virus-ridden, fragile, OMG-don't-touch-that-you-don't-know-what-will-break products. I have literally had people tell me, quite seriously, that Windows *must* be the technological pinnacle, because if MS, with all its resources, couldn't produce better, no one could.
Well, now they're waking up, and realizing that is complete BS. There are options out there. Apple is *one* of them, (Ubuntu is a rather nice distro for folks looking for a free OS, IMO) but in my experience and opinion, it's simply the one that works, and lets me do my job.
Which is, of course, making new things. ;)
So yeah, I have a vested interest in seeing the industry steer away from the mutual masturbation quagmire that MS has put it into, and start looking up a bit to see what's possible when you're not bogged down in fixing the basics.
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Date: 2007-10-23 11:27 pm (UTC)Or maybe a handheld computer that *isn't* trying to be a clone of a desktop OS, to the point that it is more or less a horrible hack that is barely usable as a remote access device?
Windows is, simply put, a shoddy UI over a crappy OS running on budget hardware produced by manufacturers racing to the bottom. The fact that much of the Windows 'ecosystem' is comprised of creating solutions for problems that Windows *creates* should say something. Think about what might be arriving in the market if all those folks and resources were freed up to do something *new* instead of just trying to plug the holes in the Titanic. It's just a colossal waste of time and money.
Consumers are finally figuring out that computers *don't* have to be virus-ridden, fragile, OMG-don't-touch-that-you-don't-know-what-will-break products. I have literally had people tell me, quite seriously, that Windows *must* be the technological pinnacle, because if MS, with all its resources, couldn't produce better, no one could.
Well, now they're waking up, and realizing that is complete BS. There are options out there. Apple is *one* of them, (Ubuntu is a rather nice distro for folks looking for a free OS, IMO) but in my experience and opinion, it's simply the one that works, and lets me do my job.
Which is, of course, making new things. ;)
So yeah, I have a vested interest in seeing the industry steer away from the mutual masturbation quagmire that MS has put it into, and start looking up a bit to see what's possible when you're not bogged down in fixing the basics.