Microsoft decides that it's in their best interest for all customers to use identical UIs, so they make Metro the standard interface on phones, video game systems, tablets, desktops, and servers. Apple decides that it's in their customers' best interest for products to have similar but individualized UIs, so they create tailored interfaces for tiny, small, and large displays.
That, in a nutshell, is the difference between the two companies (and why Apple is eating Microsoft's lunch in every category where they directly compete).
Exactly. Someone else, mod parent up, please!
Microsoft has not ever understood one thing.
People ***HATE*** "Windows". Windows is associated with work, pain, crazy difficulties, nerds and viruses. The brand name has negative value.
So what does Microsoft do? They double and triple down on fucking *Windows*. They had the opportunity with the Metro to finally make people see Microsoft as going beyond Windows. "No this isn't Windows any more, it's not supposed to be Windows, and that's OK. We're more than Windows, so try it on its own terms".
And now with phones they kill the one name, Nokia, which people did have a good association with, in favor of a nothingburger which might as well be a suppository name.
That's because, if you have paid attention these last few years, Microsoft thinks that the name "Microsoft" is what is "tainted"; not "Windows". They're wrong, of course. And all they would have had to do was ask about 100 people randomly off the street, and that would have been well-enough data-sample to show that in abundance.
So they are trying like hell to run away from a pile of dogshit they stepped in, while ignoring the fact that they are still carrying the stench of it with them on their shoes.
All I gots to say is, Run, Ronny, Run!!!
The kernel IS unified. They're literally using the same kernel across all devices since Windows 8 and equivalents. APIs are already optionally unified.
R U Serious?
Are you REALLY saying that a PHONE is running a full-blown NT Kernel?!?
That's actually pretty impressive. But dumb.
MS could have been wise about the whole situation and looked to GNOME and Unity as some attempts at putting a touch screen orientated interface on a desktop environment and the uproar it caused. I am not sure how Microsoft thought they would have any different results. And I think MS is trying to beat Apple to unifying their operating systems; they want to look original when they finish first even though they didn't start first.
Yeah, but you'll notice that Apple is VERY selective about "unifying" the Desktop (pointer-driven) and Tablet/Phone (touch-driven) environments. And I am sure that they have been even MORE selective after seeing the adoption rate of Windows 8...
Because unlike the neck beards, MS is innovating. Why does a view (desktop, tablet, phone) have to be tied to the OS?
For certain activities, it doesn't (and usually isn't in any reasonably-modern OS). However, at some point, the UI "becomes" the driving factor in the OS (and Application) design, and when that is ignored, you get the clusterfuck that is The Interface Formerly Known As Metro.
Hardly, they are trying to catch up with Linux which is already literally one OS running and holding a strong footprint on all these things. Of course Linux runs on platforms both smaller and larger than any form of Windows.
You're joking, right?
Even Linux fans acknowledge that there is anything but "literally one" Linux. In fact, that's either one of its biggest drawbacks or one of its greatest strengths (or both, somehow)...
Or are you new here?
goto fail; goto fail;
So you design a better, practical system.
And of course the intent of a backup system is among other things to keep data that was deleted by mistake - how can iCloud know if you deleted something by mistake or not?
This.
That is precisely why I have set our work backup software to not erase "Deleted" files from our backups. Instead, the backup software just sends me a reminder every month to review the deleted files (which I will do when storage-space or backup-time becomes a problem). Until then, it is pretty cheap insurance against tears...
Right but having a more powerful one next to other vital organs is just fine.
Actually! I do worry a bit about that, too. That's why I usually put my phone on the passenger seat when I can, and in my laptop bag's front pocket, or on my desk when at at work. At home, my phone is likely to be anywhere.
And now we go full-circle, with me having to worry about the BT in the Apple Watch as well...
But, quite frankly, nothing scares me quite as much as a diagnosis of Brain Cancer/Brain Tumor. I watched the wife of an extended-family member go from seemingly fine to a corpse (quite unpleasantly) in the space of about six weeks due to brain cancer. It ain't pretty...
So, if I can avoid that fate by avoiding microwave transmitters strapped to my head for hours at a time, I think I will.
BTW, I was given a hand-me-down BT earpiece. Liked the convenience, but just couldn't get by that whole microwave thing...
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. -- Niels Bohr