Five Things Apple Can Learn From Windows 8 • Hacker News Board

Re: Five Things Apple Can Learn From Windows 8

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Post by ewrgsdfg » Wed, Sep 14, 2011, 6:57 AM UTC

jinushaun wrote: post #8

Apple said they plan to merge iOS and OSX, but looks like MS beat them to it. Plugging my tablet to an external monitor, mouse and keyboard; that's the killer feature for me. I can have my cake and eat it too.

They beat them to it....... in 2013?

OSX and iOS are converging.

Windows8 is built for notebooks and styluses.

iPad 4 will be due when Windows 8 is being lumped on some beefy "tablet". With a tedious, over weight Office app.

Re: Five Things Apple Can Learn From Windows 8

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Post by Vitaly » Wed, Sep 14, 2011, 7:08 AM UTC

The only one of those that I'd like is multiple logins/profiles. I'd like to have a separate profile for kids. Preferably with bigger icons.

Re: Five Things Apple Can Learn From Windows 8

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Post by VladRussian » Wed, Sep 14, 2011, 8:03 PM UTC

lurch_mojoff wrote: post #9

VladRussian wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

history repeats itself, 20+ years ago it was windows and Mac OS getting into multitasking http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS#.22Classic.22_Mac_OS_.28...

It is way too early to proclaim that history is repeating itself. 20 years ago Apple were a rudderless ship. Today they are on of the most efficiently operating computer companies out there. They have a vision, they have a solid foundation on which to build, and they have the resources to execute rapidly on that vision.

>20 years ago Apple were a rudderless ship.

because they detached the rudder 26 years ago.

>Today they are on of the most efficiently operating computer companies out there. They have a vision, they have a solid foundation on which to build, and they have the resources to execute rapidly on that vision.

Sounds like you're talking about Apple of 1982-84. Apple that had had a several years long run under Jobs. Btw, the vision they execute today is the vision outlined in the Jobs' 30 years old Macintosh business plans.

Re: Five Things Apple Can Learn From Windows 8

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Post by bsphil » Thu, Sep 15, 2011, 2:11 AM UTC

johnzachary wrote: post #2

I like the pane-based user interface. I welcome any alternative to the desktop metaphor.

Just looking at the screens I've seen, I can't help but shake my head. Mind you, I haven't seen many. Inconsistent sizes of those "desktop" boxes, no coherent organization (there's a picture here, then an icon, then the time, then a different app, then news...), and an arbitrary rainbow of colors. I'm not too big on following pre-beta release info like this because there's just not enough there to answer my questions, but I'm hoping that the desktop/laptop installations of Windows 8 will still have a more familiar organization to it.

Full disclosure, I've never owned a smartphone or tablet, so maybe I'm just not used to that sort of layout yet. I can't help but think that everything is just randomly dumped together.

Re: Five Things Apple Can Learn From Windows 8

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Post by uris » Thu, Sep 15, 2011, 7:57 AM UTC

The visual contrast between Metro's modern look and the vulgarity of the standard Windows GUI is nauseating.

I hope Apple won't be tempted, rather, I'm sure they will not. It looks incoherent: from the the Metro UI's concept of tiles, which I dislike, to the duality of the desktop as an app. Cool for geeks, maybe, horribly confusing idea for anyone else. It's stupid to force a full fledged desktop into a tablet. Yet again, anything with a fan is not really a tablet, that's a PC.