The new interface may put off those used to the standard Palm OS interface.
Does a desktop OS need to provide interface continuity with the organism's mobile extensions?
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They are writing a new playbook around content, device, and connectivity and that in turn places more and more importance on the interface and OS. But these elements are really about the broader development of a platform and ecosystem business model that Nick Vitalari and I describe in The Elastic Enterprise.
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Similarly, while Apple's OS X's user interface is not just easy to use but engaging, it's just a candy shell built around the kind of tried-and-true Unix software that's powered everything from phone networks to computer science labs for a generation.
But regardless of how many displays are hooked up to it, there genuinely are some interface niggles in this OS. Despite having mastered the basic shortcuts, I'm still having to reach for my mouse way too often, and the arm ache is starting to dampen the good vibes left over from my last diary post.
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The Unity Next project will incorporate several core components from the Ubuntu Touch interface, inching the Linux OS closer to its goal of a truly unified codebase.
Golden-i is a full PC, runs Microsoft OS. offers unique Hands-Free user interface: advanced speech recognition in 26 languages with 6 axis gesture recognition.
We wouldn't lean on earlier versions of Android, regardless of what features you like -- the interface rewrite cuts off support for OS releases before Android 3.2.
Now developers will be able to use tools familiar to any OS X developer, such as Instruments, Xcode and Interface builder, alongside a new tool, the iPhone simulator, to craft applications.
Microsoft's rejection of skeuomorphism - the idea that applications need to look like their real-world equivalents - distinguishes it from Apple's OS X whose calendar app features a leather-skinned interface with ripped paper to hint at earlier entries.
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The interface on Jelly Bean is also the most responsive Android OS to date.
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The industry pioneer has decided the OS has a lot of promise for tablets, where the touch interface and legacy Windows support could provide the best of both worlds.
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Walt's also high on the inclusion of WiFi and the portrait-mode keyboard, but ain't nothing gonna make that BlackBerry browser any good, and the big guy says the touch interface still feels tacked to the rapidly-aging BlackBerry OS. So Walt -- now that you've confirmed RIM and Verizon's big holiday launch, what can you tell us about pricing and availability?
Not only does the OS bring in billions in profits, it provides users with a familiar interface, whether it is on their PC, personal digital assistant, set-top box, Tablet PC or cell phone.
Of course the Mac was created in part as sort of a backlash against the command line interface of DOS (typing long strings of complicated computing commands, not pointing and clicking with a mouse like we're used to now), though Mac OS X now boasts a Unix Shell terminal with its own command line interface.
Already, Chrome OS has some of the same features as Android, such as a touch interface on its latest high-end notebook, the Chromebook Pixel.
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Craig Federighi will lead both iOS and OS X now, while Sir Jonathan will take on responsibility for the design of "human interface" in its software.
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