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Operating System Talk Thread!
SageJiraiya:
B-, bu-, but it w-was! (Don't hurt me).
Masterpiece:
iOS was good in the sense that they had a unified experience that worked exceptionally well. Matthew is right in saying that none of the technologies used by Apple were novel to begin with, heck, just look at the IBM Simon, that thing had the touchscreen-one button system down ages before the iPhone.
pwhodges:
Hmm. Shall I talk about the multi-user real-time OS I wrote in the late 70s? No - it's long dead, along with the company and its computers. Shall I talk about the 32-bit OS I was supporting in the 80s? No - it's long dead, along with the company and its computers. Shall I talk about OS/2 that I used throughout the 90s? No - it's... no, wait, actually you can still buy a version of it that's actively maintained! Shall I talk about early Red Hat Linux, that I got an official support qualification for in the early 00s? No - everyone knows about that already. Did I mention Netware 4.11 (another certification, there)? No? - well there's a reason for that, too. I've also written several embedded systems with no OS at all (in the early 70s and early 90s, mainly).
Currently everything I run is Windows (XP, 7, 2003, 2008), the servers mostly virtualised on Hyper-V; apart from OpenBSD on the firewall, and a couple of Linux systems that I don't run, but have some maintenance overview of.
Any questions?
SageJiraiya:
No questions, just awe for your nerd-cred.
I still think iOS was innovative. Maybe not in terms of features, but as Masterpiece mentioned, in terms of unification. IMHO, just like most apple products, iOS used ideas that already existed, culminating, and applying them in ways nobody had managed before. IOS has been so successful for that reason: it culminated decades of innovation in a publicly usable form.
Jobs didn't invent the computer mouse at all, but he managed to make it popular and standard. Ever since iOS' introduction, all other mobile operating systems have had to compete. That's also made it successful. It set a public demand for certain features that for a while, only apple products could supply.
Kwaping:
Pwhodges definitely beats me on nerd cred, but I do work for a very large Internet company on the Unix Systems Infrastructure team. I'm an old-school Apple user, though. OSX is my wet-dream OS - friendly gui with a unix terminal back-end and lots of third-party software support.
With that said, I'm an Android user and absolutely hate iOS. I respect it, but using it after using Android is literally torture for me.
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