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Mobile plans?Mobile plans?Posted Mar 28, 2013 5:52 UTC (Thu) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582)In reply to: Mobile plans? by rahulsundaram Parent article: GNOME 3.8 released I wouldn't be so sure about that. Mac, iOS, Android etc is doing just fine without being "familiar" if you read that as the typical Windows UI. Well, Mac OS X is very high quality and that helps. It also helps that Apple tightly control the hardware. But in the earlier years a lot of OS 9 die-hard users vocally hated it. As for iOS and Android -- as several people have observed, the interface is progman.exe from Windows 3.1, with animations. Both are used in a single-task manner. Neither is used in conjunction with printers, scanners, external webcams, or other peripherals. And the office-suite / productivity-app support on both is rudimentary at best. (An android tablet actually makes a fine laptop with a linux chroot -- I use libreoffice as well as latex on mine. I think Ubuntu "gets" that, too. But the current best solution for viewing the linux display -- vnc -- is not good enough for a mass market.)
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