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Due to my recent... issues with my computer it has exposed me to where the OS world is going. Something I had not previously been tracking with any kind of interest. No, Sir, I don't like it (Mr Horse Voice).
I will admit that I am more of a "power user" and that the future UI Design Concepts focus on the Joe and Jane Average.. but why am I forced into that box with them?
If you have not been following the trends either then let me regal you. Everyone is going "smartphone" UI for their future OS's and GUIs... well except KDE as far as I can tell. The embodying concept is the same as on Smart Phones.. WE OWN YOU and YOUR DEVICE. No customization or if it is there it is hidden and buried.. seriously why have it if you then hide it.. oh it is for the CHOSEN people.
To be frank I don't like someone else dictating to me what I can and cannot do on my computer. Even with all of its restrictions Win7 is still a very open OS. Now Ubuntu going Unity, Gnome 3 removing ALL potential to customize, Windows 8 (uggggggh). Everything is locked down, controlled, and served to you as they see fit. All of them now operate APPSTORES. I understand the driving concept though. If you lock everything down you can essentially drive people towards your paid service APPSTORE and to avoid it they have to figure out a work-around. Since Joe and Jane Average don't think like that you have a new captive audience who will do it your way and funnel money into your coffers. I have no problem with making money, I have a problem with people locking down my interface. I want it MY WAY.
If the future is the Smartphone type UI's then I don't want to Compute any longer (Farnsworth Voice). Mostly because I know what the next step is, limited development and "approved apps". Most people don't know that in their CPU is a system by which one can actually prevent applications from running. No one uses it as of yet, but it has been there, quietly, for a long time.
I hate tablet computing and Smartphones not because they are not useful in their proper place but because of how controlled they are. My Droid2 was unrooted for all of 15 minutes after I bought it.. the time it took to drive home and plug it into my computer to be hacked. Sure Freedom has its risks and many of the locked down interfaces claim better security but as anyone who knows anything about computer security knows, that is just an illusion. The same kind of illusion held by socker moms and the Brady Bunch. SO maybe my over offense over the future of computing is not the way it works but the driving force behind it. The same social concepts that are driving our society into the ground and down a dark path. Seeing the computer world going the same direction is angering. If there is anything I hate openly it is just that, the Illusion, the Grand One that everyone is so desperately clinging to and brining their own destruction and mine with them. The sad part is that soon I won't have a choice of alternate OS and UI that offers freedom and usability. Since everyone, even the open source guys, have a massive hard-on for the New Computing World Order.
I will admit that I am more of a "power user" and that the future UI Design Concepts focus on the Joe and Jane Average.. but why am I forced into that box with them?
If you have not been following the trends either then let me regal you. Everyone is going "smartphone" UI for their future OS's and GUIs... well except KDE as far as I can tell. The embodying concept is the same as on Smart Phones.. WE OWN YOU and YOUR DEVICE. No customization or if it is there it is hidden and buried.. seriously why have it if you then hide it.. oh it is for the CHOSEN people.
To be frank I don't like someone else dictating to me what I can and cannot do on my computer. Even with all of its restrictions Win7 is still a very open OS. Now Ubuntu going Unity, Gnome 3 removing ALL potential to customize, Windows 8 (uggggggh). Everything is locked down, controlled, and served to you as they see fit. All of them now operate APPSTORES. I understand the driving concept though. If you lock everything down you can essentially drive people towards your paid service APPSTORE and to avoid it they have to figure out a work-around. Since Joe and Jane Average don't think like that you have a new captive audience who will do it your way and funnel money into your coffers. I have no problem with making money, I have a problem with people locking down my interface. I want it MY WAY.
If the future is the Smartphone type UI's then I don't want to Compute any longer (Farnsworth Voice). Mostly because I know what the next step is, limited development and "approved apps". Most people don't know that in their CPU is a system by which one can actually prevent applications from running. No one uses it as of yet, but it has been there, quietly, for a long time.
I hate tablet computing and Smartphones not because they are not useful in their proper place but because of how controlled they are. My Droid2 was unrooted for all of 15 minutes after I bought it.. the time it took to drive home and plug it into my computer to be hacked. Sure Freedom has its risks and many of the locked down interfaces claim better security but as anyone who knows anything about computer security knows, that is just an illusion. The same kind of illusion held by socker moms and the Brady Bunch. SO maybe my over offense over the future of computing is not the way it works but the driving force behind it. The same social concepts that are driving our society into the ground and down a dark path. Seeing the computer world going the same direction is angering. If there is anything I hate openly it is just that, the Illusion, the Grand One that everyone is so desperately clinging to and brining their own destruction and mine with them. The sad part is that soon I won't have a choice of alternate OS and UI that offers freedom and usability. Since everyone, even the open source guys, have a massive hard-on for the New Computing World Order.
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