On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 7:36 PM, Mariano Martinez Peck <marianopeck@gmail.com
wrote:
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Alexandre Bergel <alexandre.bergel@me.com>wrote:
Which is?
Alexandre
I read prediction Android may take it all.
Remember the '80 with the PC open standard? Now it is the software which is standard and pretty sure the Asian manufacturers will jump into, no?
Ah ah! I have a different opinion. I think the humanity, now, cannot produce a reliable and efficient operating system that works on many different platforms while caring about the user.
Do you want to build the best OS ever? Just write a nice/sexy UI with:
- a program to chat with all MSN/iChat/skype/etc - firefox (consider using a that a microsoft office like website for words, excels, etc) - a program to listen to music - a program to watch videos - a program to read pdfs
And that's all. You have covered 90% of the needs of 90% of the existen users. An OS that never fails, and that has just 5 buttons for those things, is all they need. Don't even put names to programs, jsut: "chat" "internet" "music" "videos" and "pictures"
cool ! An OS flamewar begins ! Love this. Linux rulez !!!!! Laurent
cheers
mariano
The effort is simply too big. Microsoft knows about it. State-of-the-Art formal verification techniques simply cannot ensure that a driver will not crash your machine. And so, whatever the amount of money poured into it.
By shipping the hardware, Apple is playing on a safe side. So, in my opinion, something like Ipad will rule on some point: a few different platforms, gorgeous interface, regarding the user as an intelligent being.
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