> What does matter is that if you were to fire up an old Macintosh from the 1980s (or even 1990s) today you’d find the interface to be surprisingly familiar but you’d be stuck asking: OK but does it… do anything?
Followed by:
> Twitter, Instagram [...] iMessages and Slack [...]
URLs and meme gifs [...] Photos from the phone [...] Video clips of toddler nieces
Among all those 8 things of one kind, only 2 things of another kind:
> a PDF that we download to print out or fill in and email. Data that we copy from one spreadsheet to another.
Never mind the old 80s/90s UI: Does he ever "… do anything?"
And finally:
> The whole thing with the piles and piles of windows open all the time has never been a frictionless experience. But now sharing your screen for a meeting is commonplace. Everyone gets to look at your messy desktop. Or you have to tidy it up real quick before the meeting.
Which harks back to, from the beginning:
> How many browser windows do you have open right now? (I have 37 windows open, with some 75+ tabs.) Email, calendar, cloud document collaboration, Twitter, Instagram — are mostly or all in the browser. What else? iMessages and Slack are apps that require the internet to do anything at all. None of this stuff existed in 1985.
And almost none of it seems to have anything to do with getting any actual work done… But, anyway, to tie this back to that last paragraph: A measly 75 tabs? YTF do you have them spread over a million windows? That's one, or at most two or three windows' worth of tabs. Just get into the habit of opening something innocuous -- your work calendar, shtuff like that -- pin its tab, and drag it to the left-most position. Then a present-able desktop is just a quick Ctrl-1 away.
Oh yeah, and I almost forgot: That dialog he's whining about is from a stupid application. It has fuck-all to do with the desktop metaphor and local files. Sheesh. Geroffmylawn.
Followed by:
> Twitter, Instagram [...] iMessages and Slack [...] URLs and meme gifs [...] Photos from the phone [...] Video clips of toddler nieces
Among all those 8 things of one kind, only 2 things of another kind:
> a PDF that we download to print out or fill in and email. Data that we copy from one spreadsheet to another.
Never mind the old 80s/90s UI: Does he ever "… do anything?"
And finally:
> The whole thing with the piles and piles of windows open all the time has never been a frictionless experience. But now sharing your screen for a meeting is commonplace. Everyone gets to look at your messy desktop. Or you have to tidy it up real quick before the meeting.
Which harks back to, from the beginning:
> How many browser windows do you have open right now? (I have 37 windows open, with some 75+ tabs.) Email, calendar, cloud document collaboration, Twitter, Instagram — are mostly or all in the browser. What else? iMessages and Slack are apps that require the internet to do anything at all. None of this stuff existed in 1985.
And almost none of it seems to have anything to do with getting any actual work done… But, anyway, to tie this back to that last paragraph: A measly 75 tabs? YTF do you have them spread over a million windows? That's one, or at most two or three windows' worth of tabs. Just get into the habit of opening something innocuous -- your work calendar, shtuff like that -- pin its tab, and drag it to the left-most position. Then a present-able desktop is just a quick Ctrl-1 away.
Sheesh, darn amateur kids nowadays… Geroffmylawn.