Re: Pharo on Apple App Store
Posted by
Mariano Martinez Peck on
Mar 04, 2011; 6:36pm
URL: https://forum.world.st/Pharo-on-Apple-App-Store-tp3334878p3335752.html
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Alexandre Bergel
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>> 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"
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.
Alexandre
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