[Info-vax] RMS intro

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

On Wed, 3 Jan 2024 21:52 +0000 (GMT Standard Time), John Dallman wrote:

> In article <umv3ll$2adef$1 at dont-email.me>, arne at vajhoej.dk (Arne Vajhøj)
> wrote:
> 
>> If MS want to continue the big presence in the consumer segment,
>> then they need to address it. Somehow they need to get into the phone
>> and tablet market. This is why the MS CEO recently said that he
>> regretted killing Windows Phone.
> 
> Then he still hasn't faced up to the reason for its failure.As far as I
> can tell, that was because it was too much like desktop/laptop Windows. 

There you have in a nutshell, this conflation between the core OS and the 
GUI that should be a separate layer on top of the OS. Remember, the whole 
“tiles” interface was developed as part of the emphasis on mobile, and 
then Windows 8 tried to retrofit it onto the desktop, which people hated.

Imagine saying that Android is “too much like desktop/laptop/server/
embedded/supercomputer Linux”, because it is: they share essentially the 
same kernel. Yet that didn’t stop Android from taking over the mobile 
world: in fact, it probably helped.