Re: Aero and Aqua

"Snit" <SNIT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:C20EF3E5.79F2B%SNIT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
"Dan Johnson" <danieljohnson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> stated in post
12uj8bfqefmm720@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on 3/3/07 9:25 AM:

See what I mean? All places where Aero and Aqua are different.

(Except the search boxes, of course. Those are quite close.)

Those are places of considerable similarity. Heck, not having Vista in
front of me I looked at some reviews for ideas... and from what I have seen
they are right on the money.

Well, maybe that's the explaination. Somebody said the Sidebar
was like the Dashboard, so everyone just repeated that without
actually looking, as you are apparently doing. :D

[snip]
It's so trivial; it's simply the obvious thing to do if you
want to address complaints about pathnames being so
terribly verbose.

Ah, so when MS changed things to be just like OS X they were not copying
Apple but merely doing what was "obvious" to deal with the complaints of
their previous mistakes.

Um, do you really think that?

Well, they aren't *just* like OS X. They still have "Windows"
and "Program Files", and they renamed "Application Data" to
"AppData" and added "C:\ProgramData".

They should be "System", "Applications", "Library" and
"Library", if they were copying Apple.

"Users" in Vista is a good match for "Users" in OS X, but that
is pretty obvious.

The rest are more like XP than OS X. Consider:

Vista has "Documents", "Pictures", "Videos", "Music",
"Saved Games", "Downloads", "Links", "Favorites",
"Searches", "Contacts", and "Desktop".

XP has "My Documents", "My Pictures", "My Videos",
"My Music", "Favorites", and "Desktop".

OS X has "Documents", "Pictures", "Movies", "Music"
and "Desktop".

Vista has added some folders, but they aren't thinks OS X
already had.

It has filed the "My" of the folders that had that, for greater
consistancy and shorter paths. But consider- XP did not call
your desktop "My Desktop". Does that mean OS X copied
XP's folder naming in that particular?

[snip]
They were thinking that if you are going to write stuff on a
transparent window frame, you should do something to make
it legible.

Yeah... one mistake piled on another... sad.

Just because Apple could not make it work doesn't
mean it's a mistake. :D

[snip]
I do agree that MS is still trying to copy Apple... in many ways. Some of
it, though, is just that the whole technology is moving along and Apple is
just ahead of the curve by a bit.

The style curve, sure. I think the Aero/Aqua thing is an example
of that- and not because Aero is a slavish imitation of Aqua.

Technologically, Apple's stuff is usually kind of half-baked.

.

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