daedalus_j

So great to hear people mention TA. I still don't think a better RTS has ever been made.

I'm going to bet that most answers will be either in "daily" or "sold it", which really doesn't help to answer the real question.

For example: I use mine semi-daily, mainly because Reeder is better than Google Reader web app and I can use where 3G sucks. I shouldn't be in the same category as someone who uses an iPad daily for all of their business email. Because of this I don't think this poll would really give you truly useful data.

What if the categories were more like:

  * It replaced my laptop.
  * Use it daily for as much of my daily work as possible
  * Use it daily for goofing off
  * Use it as a gaming platform
  * Use it for reading a book once in a while/on the bus
  * Use it infrequently. (i.e. while on an airplane)
  * Tried it, moved on.

Interesting to note that nobody mentions Enlightenment or the Ubuntu-based Bodhi Linux disto. I really can't figure out if Enlightenment is simply living in a dark hole of obscurity or if it's actively ignored. (And if it's being ignored I'd love to know more about why, I've always enjoyed it as a desktop environment.)

I really wanted to try it out, but unfortunately a facebook account is required to even see the demo, and I don't have one. I know developers these days hate writing any code they don't have to, but facebook only? Out the door to hang out in the gutter with spotify. Ah well.

Computer culture being what it is I suspect you may need to add some XXL and perhaps XXXL to that list. :-)

And TUAW just keeps losing credibility as anything other than rapid Apple fanboys.

The author says that they have a car that they don't understand and couldn't do anything to even if they did, but they don't miss their old impala. It makes sense that you don't want a crappy car, but that doesn't mean that you DO want a car that requires you to overpay the only mechanic in town who understands it.

This entire argument is just one big logical fallacy based around the idea that the only two options are "free software wild-west" vs "smooth user experience". Those are not two ends of a spectrum, nor are they mutually exclusive.

Chevy HHR. No matter how much I adjusted the mirrors on that beast there are spots along the sides, and directly behind, that you just aren't going to see.

As far as I can see Google hasn't gone out of it's way to make + a compelling end-all identity integration platform that combines all of my other Google services, (I'm looking at you Reader. Where's my "share with circle" button, hmm?) so I'm not sure where they get this idea that it's going to be one for the web at large is coming from.

I think the phrase "they're going to build future products that leverage that information" gives away exactly who these future products are going to be designed and built for. They very carefully did not say "that are going to allow you to leverage this information."