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| Samsung adds start menu to its Windows 8 PCs |
| By Thom Holwerda on 2012-08-28 18:18:38 |
| "Windows 8 changes a lot of things about how the operating system works, but one of the features Windows traditionalists will find jarring is the lack of a Start button. Although the button's functions are still present in various places, users may miss its easy click-and-start-typing familiarity. Well, Samsung's bringing it back. The all-in-one PCs Samsung unveiled this morning are the first Windows machines to sport the S Launcher, a simple widget that acts just like the old start button." This is not from The Onion. I repeat, this is not from The Onion. |
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| RE[6]: Oh dear |
| By MOS6510 on 2012-08-29 08:45:18 |
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Anyone can use it as far as I am concerned. It may not be very original, but people are used to it. But if you are called Samsung it may be wiser to be a little more creative or base the look on another dock/launcher and not the OS X one. People with half a brain cell will start making links with Apple product even when there are no (intentional) ones and Samsung's brand name will start to feel like a cheap Asian copy of premium western products. |
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| RE[4]: Oh dear |
| By MOS6510 on 2012-08-29 08:47:09 |
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Well, probably not, but let's say they have. Nobody will believe them after a whole streak of Apple inspired things and a conviction. A lot of geeks will have problems remembering Project Glass, let alone the consuming masses. |
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| Comment by flappah |
| By flappah on 2012-08-29 08:58:28 |
| And there is Samsung again, spoiling it. Just stop it Samsung and release the OS as it is. Or develop your own. |
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| RE[4]: Oh dear |
| By Morgan on 2012-08-29 11:03:39 |
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And here I thought the OS X Dock was inspired by (and in early versions, even had legacy code from) the NeXTSTEP Dock as it existed in the late 80s through the mid-late 90s. But hey, don't let facts get in the way right? |
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| Just move your cursor to the bottom right corner |
| By modmans2ndcoming on 2012-08-29 12:12:36 |
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If you move your mouse tot he bottom right corner where you would expect the start menu to be, a preview of the start page appears..all you need to do is left click and it opens the start screen. Look... I added the start menu back by just thinking about it for a second. |
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| RE[7]: Oh dear |
| By TM99 on 2012-08-29 13:41:56 |
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That is ludicrous. You do realize that Samsung had this in development prior to the verdict? Why would they not continue through on that development choice? Apple did not create the 'dock'. It may not seem like it but there is a growing backlash coming for Apple in this Pyrrhic victory. I am seeing article after editorial after commentary discussing how this is going to cost both businesses & consumers, stifle global trade, close international markets to Apple, and at least in the short term hamper innovation. I have used Apple products (and Microsoft & Unix/Linux too) for over 30 years. I won't buy another. I don't even own a current 'smartphone' but if I must get one in the near future it definitely won't be an iPhone. I am not alone. And I am not just an IT 'fanboy' picking a favorite team. I am a professional in different fields who can and does influence choices of the platforms that we do our work on. Apple's corporate hubris is not good for the market. To trusts such an entity as it is becoming is just asking for trouble in the long-term even if the short-term popularity and 'gee-whiz' seems so tempting and appealing. There are very good reasons why NASA recently chose an Android based Samsung phone for a satellite project and not an iPhone. The hardware & the software are both open. |
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| RE[8]: Oh dear |
| By MOS6510 on 2012-08-29 13:52:31 |
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I (IMHO) just don't think it's wise if you want to make the world know you are not a copycat to introduce yet another piece of 'evidence' proving the opposite. Most people don't know about other docks, glassy projects or what they used on Star Trek in the 60's, but they will recognize the OS X dock. Personally I don't mind Samsung doing this and I don't claim Apple "invented" the dock. |
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| RE[5]: Oh dear |
| By Mellin on 2012-08-29 15:19:16 |
| http://www.dailytech.com/Analysi... |
| - Score: 2 |
| RE[9]: Oh dear |
| By Mellin on 2012-08-29 15:21:18 |
| so you mean that if apple made something no one else can do it ever even if others have made a dock before Steve Jobs even thought about it |
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| RE[5]: Oh dear |
| By Mellin on 2012-08-29 15:23:41 |
| Acorn Computers had a dock before Nextstep |
| - Score: 1 |
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