Re: focus! (was Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al)

[Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay <mailinglist randomink org>]

Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller wrote:

[a snip here]

> They have over the last few years managed to grow a little into the
> tech geek segment and the multimedia market, but even using things like
> iPod and iTunes to push their desktops they seem to have managed little
> apart from not slipping further down in market share and instead staying
> around their allotted 4% to 5%. 

[and another here]

Perhaps one of the aspects of this thread would be to look beyond the
metaphor for the desktop and more into the metaphor as one that extends
the workspace area (without calling it a desktop) into the space and
context of personal computing and social collaboration.

Apple might have got it wrong to use iTunes and iPod to push their
desktops (I don't know since I don't have the stats) but using
non-desktop metaphors to a GNOME platform might not be utopian as on date.

:Sankarshan



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