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Merging MacOS X and iOS
Nov. 2nd, 2013 10:47 amMany have seen Samsung Android vs Apple iOS mobiles commercials by Samsung. In those commercials, Samsung is showing how the OS allowing multitasking is better than the single task OS. I guess Cupertino geniuses disagree, and they think that it is multitasking that prevents them from winning the same market share in desktop/laptop that they enjoy in smartphones. So several years ago they decided to make MacOS X single task OS too.
This is how it works: I have an Eclipse IDE on a big monitor, and a web browser on a laptop screen. Once I click full screen on a youtube clip in a web browser, the IDE on a big screen is replaced with a grey background. Why? Because Apple designers think that using a big $1000 monitor to display grey background improves my user experience. Proof? The thread discusses this "feature" in details, it started more than two years ago and is still active. It shows how Apple made this "user experience improvement" when moving from Snow Leopard to Lion, kept this "feature" in Mountain Lion, and after many requests nearly fixed it in Mavericks.
This is how it works: I have an Eclipse IDE on a big monitor, and a web browser on a laptop screen. Once I click full screen on a youtube clip in a web browser, the IDE on a big screen is replaced with a grey background. Why? Because Apple designers think that using a big $1000 monitor to display grey background improves my user experience. Proof? The thread discusses this "feature" in details, it started more than two years ago and is still active. It shows how Apple made this "user experience improvement" when moving from Snow Leopard to Lion, kept this "feature" in Mountain Lion, and after many requests nearly fixed it in Mavericks.
