On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 3:18 PM, steve harley <p...@paper-ape.com> wrote: > on 2012-11-27 13:10 Bruce Walker wrote >> >> On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 3:04 PM, steve harley <p...@paper-ape.com> wrote: >>> >>> there are no touch-screen Macs >> >> Besides iPhones, iPads and iPod Touches. > > those are Apple products, but they aren't Macs
But they run something awfully darned close to Mac OS X. I know, they aren't "Mac platforms" like the iMac and Macbooks, etc. But from all the chit-chat I gather that Apple considers the iPhone UI to be the future in much the same way that Mickeysoft is going with Win8: a largely touch-screen-oriented UI. So apparently Mac OS X will start converging to look and act like iOS. Frankly this scares me more than a little. I don't want to have to deal with dumbed-down interfaces where you have to try and convince the machine what you want to do. I've likened attempts to browse on an iPhone to working an elevator wearing boxing gloves. If you whack repeatedly at it you may eventually get it do what you want, but it's a real pisser. And if both Apple and Mickeysoft are going to foist this stuff on us there'll be nowhere else to turn. For sure, the Linux crowd will follow suit. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
