Comments on: Distortion field

by: Bill

Mon, 23 Oct 2006 17:06:52 +0100

I did not read tha article in the same maaner as Eugenia.
I thought that accusing(?) Apple of stealing other people’s ideas as the way to show Pogue for what he is - an ill-informed fanboy

by: Eugenia

Sat, 07 Jan 2006 17:57:16 +0000

Personally, I don’t think it’s a matter of MS copying Apple, or Linux copying MS and Apple, or anything like that. It’s just how technology moves and what needs a modern desktop has.

For example, the “hardware accelerated” desktop that was introduced on OSX 10.2 does not mean that it was “stolen” by BeOS. You see, internally Be was working on such a desktop since end of 1999. It just means that the time was right to move to such an implementation since the gfx cards were powerful enough to do so. For Windows it makes sense to move to scuch an architecture years later, not only because MS is a bigger corporation slower to move, but also because backwards compatibility to hardware is a bigger concern for MS than it is for Apple.

So, no, I don’t think that most features that we see on OSes are clean copycats of others. Sure, inspiration of a certain feature might drive a competitor to implement such a feature to his own OS, but overall, depending on the market of each OS, these feature will get implemented in time anyway.

by: Chris

Sat, 07 Jan 2006 13:44:59 +0000

Obviously, David Pogue has his feet firmly in the Mac world; he always has. This is not a huge surprise. I think he is just like any other Mac user, casting a skeptical eye at anything MS produces since MS does like to rip the Mac OS off; I mean if a known shoplifter came into your store you’d be watching them carefully as well. I don’t think David Pogue is a troll at all but he does have his biases.

Windows has virtual desktops; I wish the Mac had those built in.