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Re: Mercury OS

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Post by dang »

Related:

MercuryOS – A speculative reimagining of current operating system paradigms - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29948455 - Jan 2022 (8 comments)

Introducing Mercury OS - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20043255 - May 2019 (2 comments)

Mercury OS: Modern, Humane OS Design Concept - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20033445 - May 2019 (1 comment)

Mercury OS – A speculative vision of the operating system - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20033328 - May 2019 (1 comment)

Re: Mercury OS

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Post by pedalpete »

This is a beautiful looking OS, and the idea of "spaces" may be worth exploring. I was just reading about Facebook's failed Home phone project where rather than apps, the interface was focused on people.

I thought it was a real OS, and wanted to try it, as I've got a Fire tablet gen 1 that is looking for a new use.

Weird question, the credits say Mercury is dedicated to Jef Raskin. Why not have the home screen in the demos say "Good Morning Jef," instead of Jason? Who's Jason?

Re: Mercury OS

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Post by daniel_iversen »

Oh boy I’d like to play with something new and exciting like this and was sad to hear it’s just a design mock-up/idea. The OS space seems to have been quite stale for a decade or two, is there anything super exciting and different out there from a UX perspective? Remember installing Linux in the late 90s or rooting Windows phones and installing whatever latest Android OS was available in the early days of iOS and Android, and that was always quite thrilling.

Re: Mercury OS

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Post by provenance »

Nice. Reminds me of my unfinished project “SynchronizedOS” which automatically handles securi..err, synchronicity concerns re: Cloud/Endpoints

Inmates/asylum cc: dang

Re: Mercury OS

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Post by Lalabadie »

pedalpete wrote: post #3

This is a beautiful looking OS, and the idea of "spaces" may be worth exploring. I was just reading about Facebook's failed Home phone project where rather than apps, the interface was focused on people. I thought it was a real OS, and wanted to try it, as I've got a Fire tablet gen 1 that is looking for a new use. Weird question, the credits say Mercury is dedicated to Jef Raskin. Why not have the home screen in the…

Jason Yuan. MercuryOS is his project.

Re: Mercury OS

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Post by tyingq »

I see where they are trying to go with the "humane" approach, but the examples seem to require big companies to play along. For example, the shopping examples put the control back with the user, and companies supply basic info like pictures, pricing, descriptions.

In real life, of course, they won't cede that control easily. You'll get the same sort of mess you see on Facebook Marketplace, for example..."for sale" listings of cars that put the down-payment in the sales price spot and some wording telling you to call for more info. No actual prices are shown.

So, it would probably require some sort of unapproved scraping, collating, etc, to really work as intended.

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