I have a question and an anecdote unrelated to UI. How has that gone? I've owned three computers as an adult: a Dell desktop purchased in 2000, a Toshiba laptop in 2006 and a MacBook in 2008. The MacBook is easily the best of the three. Apple offers El Capitan for my MacBook, something they remind me of every few days. I upgraded to it once, and it made my computer nearly unusable. I wiped it and restored from backup. Coming up on eight years old, it's time for a new computer. But will I be any happier fighting with Windows or Linux? I wasn't when I was 25, and I doubt I will be at 35. Ouch but spot on. My anecdote here is being a fan of a band that had a cult following, sort of "indie darlings" (I cringe saying it but have no better term). For their last album they hired pop producers who'd worked with more successful pop stars. Their interviews leading up to the release all said the same thing: "we know we're going to lose some people." Die hard fans don't fill venues. An album sold to a fleeting 13 year old is just as good as a sale to a 35 year old, ten year fan. I think that's consistent with your point: does anyone lose any sleep over losing one customer but gaining two? No.And adapt I did, clear out of Apple's ecosystem
Yeah - Twitter is changing shit just to change shit. Thing is, their existing userbase doesn't fucking matter. Maybe if they tweak it they can get more people to look at it
In my opinion: Windows 10 has a lot of the ugly shit that Windows XP had, except it breaks with a lot less finality. It also has many of the elegant bits of 10.6, except with a lot less polish. To me, Windows looks to be about 10 years behind OS X, which in this case is good, because OS X is rapidly becoming a shitpile. And holy crap that whole thing where Mac and Windows hardware were at parity? Yeah, those days are over. The Windoze box is four times the bruiser of a high-end Mac Pro at half the cost. Pro Tools sees it as 16 4.5 GHz cores and I had it built for me, tested for a week and shipped out bespoke for under $4k.