Can I Get a Hallelujah?

[Kevin Callahan]

On Dec 14, 2006, at 10:27 PM, rogerhoward at rogerroger.org wrote:

>>
>> Considering Leopard and what I personally believe will further  
>> differentiate the platform, I view this approach with a  
>> disgruntled visage.
>
> For audio apps that may well be, but I'd be pretty hard-pressed to  
> imagine something relevant to a Photoshop user that can be done on  
> Leopard that can't be done on Vista.

Here's a non-audio example for an audio/graphics (scoring) app:   I  
want Mighty Mouse 360 support.
NOPE !
"no analog on Windows"

support for 360 movement across a large orchestral score that is many  
staves tall and many pages long would be a productivity boon

there are killer features coming in Leopard -- will we see these  
benefits in cross-platform apps like Sibelius and PS ?

I can look at it from the vendor's side -- or even from the user's  
perspective who needs to work on any platform -- so I'm not flipping  
out about it ...

but it CAN be frustrating to see clear advantages to the Mac not  
being leveraged

and if application vendors do not leverage the benefits of a given  
platform, we end up with the lowest common denominator

>
>> Regarding UI, that's exactly what I'm taking about.  I believe the  
>> Mac UI is one of the key benefits wrt productivity.  We're talking  
>> about "user interface".  Are there no advantages to the Mac user  
>> interface?
>
> Well by UI differences I may have implied too much; the differences  
> between the apps are very subtle between the OSX and Windows builds  
> - minor things mostly, or just native dressing (window themes and  
> standard dialogs for instance).
>
> While I don't disagree about the overall productivity differences -  
> at least for me - between OSX and Windows, again I'm not sure how  
> that would impact the UI within a complex app like Photoshop, which  
> is pretty damn self-contained, and not constrained by the OS in  
> terms of UI. Photoshop is one of the few apps I can comfortably  
> switch between platforms and barely miss a beat.
>





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