I hate to say this, but an ideal Desktop OS, at least for majority of consumers is mostly here, and it is iOS 11.
Having use the newest iPad Pro 10.5 ( along with iOS 11 beta ), the first few hours were pure Joy, after that were frustration and anger flooding in. Because what I realize, is this tiny little tablet, costing only half a Macbook Pro or even iMac, limited by Fanless design with lower TDP, 4GB of memory, no Dedicated GPU, likely much slower SSD, provides a MUCH better user experience then the Mac or Windows PC i have ever used, that is including the latest Macbook Pro.
Everything is fast and buttery smooth, even the Web Browsing experience is better. The only downside is you are limited touch screen and Keyboard. I have number of times wonder If I can attach a separate monitor to use it like Samsung Desktop Dock.
There are far too many backward compatibility to care for with both Windows and Mac. And this is similar to the discussion in the previous Software off Rails. People are less likely to spend time optimizing when it is working good enough out of the box.
you don't have access to the file system in iOS. This makes me crazy. You also can't do any change that changes the os's behavior in any meaningful way. For a dev at least, even for mobile, it feels really limiting to use.
Quite true. I'm genuinely surprised how much progress Apple has made with iOS 11. The fact that they are giving users a file management app means they are finally ready to handle real work. With a really good Bluetooth keyboard....
Wut? MailDrop is what you're talking about and it's optional on top of only kicking in with attachments over 25mb IIRC.
Maybe you prefer whalemail, yousendit, or one of the other sign-up-free and get-ads-forever services for large attachments, and that's fine, they're not going away.
Neither is DropBox, for the time being. I'm both worried and excited about DropBox's new offerings and I'm all for it as long as they don't become Evernote and start selling backpacks and rebranded Fujitsu scanners. :(
Did you read the article? His entire premise is now that consumers have finished with the desktop, we can get them back to being workstations again, unencumbered by the requirements of consumers.
Talking about how iOS is great for consumers but doesn't have a good keyboard is a bit tone deaf.
My bad. Sorry I Skim Read it, Headlines and Tl;dr. May be he should name it as Workstation OS, although I guess all "Desktop" are pretty much Workstation these days.
But if Non-Consumer, Workstation OS is what we want, then I value backward compatibility over everything else. Which means everything he wanted to remove are here to stay.
Having use the newest iPad Pro 10.5 ( along with iOS 11 beta ), the first few hours were pure Joy, after that were frustration and anger flooding in. Because what I realize, is this tiny little tablet, costing only half a Macbook Pro or even iMac, limited by Fanless design with lower TDP, 4GB of memory, no Dedicated GPU, likely much slower SSD, provides a MUCH better user experience then the Mac or Windows PC i have ever used, that is including the latest Macbook Pro.
Everything is fast and buttery smooth, even the Web Browsing experience is better. The only downside is you are limited touch screen and Keyboard. I have number of times wonder If I can attach a separate monitor to use it like Samsung Desktop Dock.
There are far too many backward compatibility to care for with both Windows and Mac. And this is similar to the discussion in the previous Software off Rails. People are less likely to spend time optimizing when it is working good enough out of the box.