Am 04.12.2011 21:05, schrieb Fernando Cassia: > On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 15:59, Reindl Harald <h.reindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> what did you exactly not understand in "the percent does not matter" >> all this counts will not change the fact that workstations and >> powerusers will exist in 10 years as they do now > > The percentage DOES matter in terms of GROWTH and MIND SHARE. > Mobile devices and mouse-less, or keyboard-less devices will be where > growth will be you do NOT WANT to understand me it does not matter in the context "we optimize all for the new devices because a traditional pc is not cool enough" where did i say any word that these devices sgould be ignored or not supported as good as possible? but it is dumb to make a desktop DEFAULT which ignores real computers! > often at a fraction of the cost of a traditional computer. laughable, many of this new devices are at the same cost as a traditional computer if you look at the real price and not what your mobile providr pays for you > In other words, the ´new´ devices will grow and the traditional pc > environment will eventually stall. so what.... > If any OS decides to ´ignore´ this trend it will become a niche > market. who spoke about ignore them? make a useable desktop for classical computers where you can switch to a mobile-view, but do not handle every device like a mbolie OR YOU BECOME A NICHE > That´s the reason why Linux cannot afford to ignore the new devices > and ´morphings´ of the computer to new aread, and why it must offer > UIs designed for these new devices and paradigms. did i say anything against this? the problem is that childish developers forget real devices > In fact, I worry that Canonical´s latest "get Ubuntu on TVs" might be > too late already. nobody needs a crippled distribution which does not fit well on a tv and not on a real computer for such things were and are specialized distributions much better and there is no need to cripple down desktop distributions > Rest assured, nobody will be taking your XFCE and KDE desktops from > you, if you want to use them on a traditional PC. hopefully that the other developers will not get infected by this "all for the new coll play-devices"
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