Desktop design and it's irrelevance.
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- formed0
I am not so surprised to see mobile take over, everyone has a super phone, not everyone had a good desktop or laptop. The screens on an average phone is so superior to the average monitor.
What scares me is this will be another dumb down of the web. Everything will be forced into a ridiculously small box and creativity will go backwards, yet again.
It'll all be over the day someone asks "is it iWatch compatible".
- fate0
Agree completely with the sentiments in this thread.
The web has lost so much creativity in the last 10 years. It's a real shame what used to be exciting and fun has turned into the yellowpages.
- Ben990
Diversity is a thing of the past. Of course there were trends back in the days, but nothing like now.
So much templates these days. And even us graphic designers are falling in the trap and use templates for our portfolios... Why?
Maybe because coding websites is now way more complicated than what we use to code 10 years ago. It was only HTML and CSS, now it's HTML, CSS, Javascript, JQuery, PHP, Ruby and blah blah, everything needs to be full dynamic.. and responsive!
- docpoz0
More evidence of desktop irrelevance...
http://news.yahoo.com/profits-ap…
There’s a good reason why the term App Store economy is often used to describe the iTunes App Store. In 2014 alone, Apple doled out $10 billion to iOS developers. Since the App Store went live in 2008, developers have netted more than $25 billion in earnings. In turn, many developers have been able to turn mobile app development into full fledged careers.
The Mac App Store, in stark contrast, is not nearly as lucrative. A recent blogpost by developer Sam Soffes, who released a Mac app that broke into the top 10 list of paid Mac apps in the U.S., highlights how the amount of money developers can earn in the Mac App Store is shockingly lower than anyone probably realized.
- Yeah iOS is a closed environment, your hands are tied. That's why I hate it and would never want something like it as a main desktop system.Ben99
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What's everyone think about this Windows 10? I'd really love to see "apps" equalized.
I do love how MS is pretty much taking the complete opposite approach to the future (and I think it is correct, hardware is almost irrelevant, one more generation and Apple will/could lose any edge they have, leaving the software being what people care about).
- PS/2 tried that approach long ago and it was bad for them because developers never made ps/2 apps, they just made WIN apps.docpoz
- So there were very few developers actually developing for the platformdocpoz
- one... more... generation...monospaced
- I'm excited to try out Windows 10, personally. Especially since it's a free upgrade from 7.monospaced
- Makes sense. Most people do their browsing on desktop so why not make a great browser for it?hotroddy
- Most browsing is now done on mobile devices, and I believe MS is trying to do cross platform. Correct me if I'm wrong.monospaced
- Most people using MS software is browsing from a desktop. Surface users not included.hotroddy