This new iPad Pro is fantastic. Very happy with it. Except it’s also not a MacBook Air. All this power and this 3 legged OS. Stage Manager is a weak simulacrum of a window manager. Please unify these operating systems.
"yeah, he was a really great guy, really gave back to the people who worked for him." CBC about a guy who fought to keep minimum wage down so he didn't have to pay people a living wage while raking in billions in oil and gas profits.
@jeromechoo singular devs or small teams of programmers maintaining projects. The goal is usually to get it working and not fuss too much about the UI/UX.
When we think of polished, commercial software, there’s usually a designer, a product lead, devs and a whole infrastructure behind it. FOSS is way more ad hoc.
I think a good counter-example is the indie app developer. There are a bunch of great, well-designed mobile apps built by solo devs or small teams.
@jeromechoo another possibility is cross platform development is hard, and most projects pick an existing cross platform toolkit for their UI. Most of them look kind of funky compared to a natively built app.
@jeromechoo I was thinking more about cross platform desktop apps, but that looks cool. Apollo was a great app and @christianselig deserves a lot of props for what he built.
I hadn’t seen Voyager before. Looks like a cool project. Also guessed it was React Native before I looked at the source. Ironically, I think there are more XP mobile toolkits than there are desktop ones these days. Building something that looks good on macOS and Windows and Linux is hard.
@pheonix@jeromechoo I think it's more than just money. A well designed app is designed first and implemented to a spec. Then iterated on with the help of the designer and product folks. It's more than just UI, it's about the whole workflow and interaction. The "experience".
Not a lot of open source projects start with that design mentality up front. Some devs are better at design than others, but it's a rare developer that can do it all themselves.
