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The year of the Linux tablet?

The year of the Linux tablet?

Posted Aug 24, 2011 1:13 UTC (Wed) by bronson (subscriber, #4806)
Parent article: The year of the Linux tablet?

Well that explains why Gnome3 is trying so hard to look like a mobile phone.


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The year of the Linux tablet?

Posted Aug 25, 2011 7:44 UTC (Thu) by ebassi (subscriber, #54855) [Link]

<blockquote>Well that explains why Gnome3 is trying so hard to look like a mobile phone.</blockquote>

<p>considering that a lot of GNOME developers have been working in the mobile and embedded space for a living, it should surprise at all that we decided to bring some stuff from that experience over.</p>

<p>it's also the nature of things: it happened in Apple, it happened in Microsoft, and it happens to users as well. more and more people are using smartphones: they are getting used to some of the concepts, semantics and experiences of the smartphone user interface. the line has been blurred to the point that there is a continuum of usage: start a task on the phone, follow through on the tablet, then resume on the desktop. designing for that flow is neither new nor unexpected.</p>

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