> I can hear the head of development for courier at MS...'Apple released > what? The iwhat?...dammit!...scrap everything!'
Really. It's too bad, though. According to a couple of articles I've seen, Courier was one of the few tablet-size boxes that was designed from scratch to be its own thing--neither an upsized phone nor a downsized laptop. "If you watch the Courier video above, you'll notice that it's an entirely new class of interface. It doesn't have anything reminiscent of applications, which are the way phones do it, and it doesn't have the traditional windowing (lower-case) for programs, which is what desktops use. It's kinda just one big interface where everything talks to everything else, where you can do stuff in a natural way that makes sense." http://gizmodo.com/5461767/the-two-wrong-ways-to-make-a-tablet ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
