| thranx said: What exactly do you mean by post pc. I think I am just not getting it. I have used an ipad/iphone a couple of times, didn't seem much differnt to me than a pc with every program on the desktop and a few pages to flick through. The touch interface seemed to make things different, but not much. Seems more like the devices you listed dealt with a different input more so than anything else. Those different inputs were also motion or touch based which is just naturally easier for people. Who doesn't know to point with a finger at what they want. Removing input barriers will definatly make things more user friendly and easier, but I dont see what is post pc about it. POst keyboard and mouse yes. Will the pc be any less pc when kinect is on it and poeple use that instead of keyboard and mouse? And personally when ever I use an ipohone/ipad I am turned off by how unorganzied they are and filled with clutter. Mind you these are ones owned and used by others not me. |
As I said a few posts ago, I was wrong in saying that it's a software design paradigm, because it involves hardware too, just the hardware that deals with user interaction mainly. And I haven't used any iOS device for longer periods of time, so my experience is pretty much the same as yours, but I agree that the iOS setup isn't strongly post-PC.
But it uses both hardware interface and software, so stuff like Kinect and touch screens would fall under post-PC as well. And yeah, it's a bad name for it, but as I told Mummelmann, it's the term we actually have right now. If anyone have any better names, they're welcome to let them out, and we can all start using it when we find something better, and more descriptive. 
Something more post-PC than iOS would be WP7, which is my favorite touch interface at the moment. It's much more of a design change, and something that's actually optimized for the hardware it's being used on. 
