Meta UI verses in your operating system
So all of this major operating systems, such as Mac OS X and Windows now got some kind of little apps between the real apps universes. Like the OS X “Dashboard”, or this Windows Vista and up “Sidebar”. Too bad they’re just lower quality sandboxes with nothing really useful in it, just wasting your CPU cycles, memory and storage.
How’s that? I tried to use the most useful OS X Dashboard widget: the Stickies “mini app”. Not only are they not resize-able, so the content you can fill in there is limited. Today had to find out that it does not even support undo! Accidentally typed with some line selected, and whoops, off your note went. So with no undo (manager) in place, into the data nirvana your supposedly precious note went. Steve: You did notice it’s 2009? It’s even your latest, greatest Snow Leopard I’m talking about–ant the most useful app shipped by default.
Well, what do I complain. At least it supports cut’n paste. There where (phone) OSs that had to live without the later for some two major incarnations.
