{"id":259,"date":"2013-05-08T11:55:07","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T15:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/?p=259"},"modified":"2013-05-08T11:55:07","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T15:25:07","slug":"tim-cook-on-windows-8-ui-death-of-the-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/?p=259","title":{"rendered":"Tim Cook on Windows 8 UI &amp; Death of the PC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This has got to be one of the best quotes I&#8217;ve read on Windows 8&#8217;s new &#8220;Metro&#8221; user interface (UI).\u00a0Tim Cook, Apple&#8217;s CEO, <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2013\/05\/07\/business\/micrsoft-windows-8-u-turn\/index.html?hpt=hp_t4\" target=\"_blank\">said <\/a>that Windows 8 would be like combining a toaster and a fridge &#8211; something that, while technically possible, was &#8220;probably not going to be pleasing to the user&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In my playing around with Windows 8 the UI certainly <em style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>is<\/b><\/em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0nice for a\u00a0<\/span><em style=\"color: #000000;\">tablet<\/em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> (although my preferences are Blackberry Playbook, Android 4.x, Apple iOS and Windows 8) but for a desktop machine &#8211; no. Desktop knowledge workings won&#8217;t be reaching out to the screen to select, etc., &#8211; that is why we have keyboards and mice\/trackpads &#8211; unless we want humans to start looking like orangutans (picture: really long arms). And no, desktops are not in a death spiral like many pundits indicate. While the market is stagnant or slightly declining could you see an office administration professional trying to type letters on a tablet (or any serious\u00a0<\/span>management<span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0professional, for that matter)? No, the tablet market is growing because people are moving to devices that they need to really consume information or provide very mobile, forced-choice input &#8211; tablets. I have a number of tablets (Playbook, Asus Transformer and iPad) but for serious work I go back to my laptop. And, for gaming I am back to my desktop.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"BOSSKNB12_V2_SPECIAL_NODE\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This has got to be one of the best quotes I&#8217;ve read on Windows 8&#8217;s new &#8220;Metro&#8221; user interface (UI).\u00a0Tim Cook, Apple&#8217;s CEO, said that Windows 8 would be like combining a toaster and a fridge &#8211; something that, while &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/?p=259\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}