DigitalDaily has a fascinating interview with Adobe’s co-founders. Go read the whole thing. I’m going to talk about two exchanges that I think are quite illuminating. Here’s the first: John Paczkowski : Cross-platform mobile apps tend not to take advantage of native features unique to each device. What do you have to say about complaints [...]
Rarely have I laughed so loudly and so hard as when I read through Adobe Gripes, a user-submitted image blog of all the galling user interface cock-ups in today’s “professional” Adobe software. I like it because I have to use that crap and it’s cathartic to see that others as as annoyed as I am [...]
So I’ve spent a lot of time with the latest version of Firefox. I’ve used it as my primary browser, my secondary browser, and tried running with both it and Safari at once to highlight differences. I’ve reeeeeeeeeeally wanted to like Firefox 3, but in the end, I just keep going back to Safari. Why? [...]
So a particularly embarrassing email written by Bill Gates and made public during the company’s antitrust investigations was just put all over the internet, and boy is it a doozy! Here goes: From: Bill Gates Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 10:05 AM To: Jim Allchin Cc: Chris Jones (WINDOWS); Bharat Shah (NT); Joe Peterson; Will [...]
Operating systems are like governments; they serve functions that individual citizens/users could not realistically accomplish on their own. Governments often raise armies, bail out natural disaster victims, and lay roads. Many go beyond this and offer additional services, such as emergency first responders, education, healthcare, and subsidies for certain privileged businesses. Operating systems are just [...]