Video: Connecting your apps, files, PCs and devices to the cloud with SkyDrive and Windows 8
Integrated computing, working on one device and picking it back up on another. There are many places where you can do this already. On your Lumia with One Note, you can view your docs straight from your Lumia that you might have been working on with your PC.
Another example might be for any other document types which may be stored through SkyDrive. Below is a video showing how SkyDrive might work on Windows 8. Like Dropbox, you can drag and drop stuff to folders which will automatically then upload to your SkyDrive. This makes it so much easier to work in between different devices as you can work from that folder and automatically be saving things on that folder (no manual upload actions necessary). I’m not sure what kind of files it will accept though.
It might not be too far until we see a Nokia with Windows 8 and we get the whole Nokia interconnected computing experience.
As you can see, you can still have the classic Windows style interaction. I really like having the option for both as I might find the transition easier (and would still be the UI when I want to do some actual serious work).
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Been using preview of Win8 and if Nokia can use Apollo on phones and 8 on Tablets, Apple will have serious competition
totally agree, think also that what determines a pc will change also. sharing files is a start, but when we share apps, then it will go ballistic.
the cpu\gpu\screen size\ram\storage on a pc should hopefully be for our convenience and not as currently a straightjacket.
if I want to use the same app but slower and on a smaller screen, I accept that, I dont accept I cant use the same app, or I need to purchase a non-equivalent or am restricted somehow.
Sorry that is nonsense pure nonsense, you don’t want the same apps you have on your desktop on your phone, the interaction model is completely different the work position is absolutely different. The available amount of info is completely different, the size of hit areas is completely different etc etc etc….if you want to use pc apps on your phone its not that hard just use them via a VLC, but they are mostly unusable because because they were made for mouse/keyboard interaction.
You might appreciate having synchronized data across your platforms an a more uniform experience paradigm, but what you area saying is well nonsense
Perhaps.. He is talking about sharing of application across desktop and tablet pc?
same exact problem
Yes you do, you want to interact with them differently perhaps, but you want to use the same apps. why would you want to relearn anything ??? Do you really want 1 app for your desktop, to have to buy and relearn another so you can use the same data on your phone\tablet ?? To not be able to see it at all on your xbox720 or whatever ??
Apps for windows\mac currently are built to function under various resolutions, to have the windows resized,minimised etc. even this was a large jump for alot of people at the time. Its the same here. You may not get this now but its a question of time.
In future having different apps for devices will be as sensible as having different formats for devices.
A decade ago or so – using the same data – pics\vid\music\html\docs\pdf on your phone was out of the question for all but 1% of the most expensive phones\users. Now its the norm.
Will be the same for apps soon. Soon you will be using the same apps+data across platforms.
This is the promise that Java always had and failed to deliver. The C#\.Net\ Silverlight\Flash has brought this closer. Steve Jobs thought HTML would clinch it.
So cross platform apps have been evolving, but arn’t there yet.
The discrepancy you are seeing is trying to use apps built for keyboard\mouse\large monitor on a phone etc. This wont ever work.
Which is why they will be re-engineered to work across all platforms easily. This is the promise behind Windows8\WinRT etc.
No its plain ergonomics you use a mouse and keyboard on a rest position, passive, the harm and hands are on rest positions and you can work for hours… ON a tach device you harm ands need to be on the device on a phone you should do all of the interaction jut with one hand, o better just the free thumb.
The hit area of an element on the desktop can be as small as a 2×2 pixel, on a touch device anything smaller than the size of your thumb is useless, on a desktop you have infinite hit area on the edges of the screen, on a tablet/phone edges tend to be particularly hard to hit, on the desktop you can have screens that go up to 32 inches and 2500×1600 pixels were full screen apps are completely useless and very hard to use (check out Fits Law), on touch devices we have so far, all apps run full screen. your attention span is different wen you are using a desktop than wen you are using a ipod.
All of this have profound impacts on how apps look and behave, any semi decent UI/UX designer will say the same thing I just did.
What you are failing to see is that the same underlying program logic can adapt depending on the platform its used from.
Its only been different before due to the sole fact that mobile\pc’s couldnt share api’s.
Now they can.
Yeap that’s the reason technologies such as QML are great, have a thin UI/UX layer on top, share the app logic and libs across all platforms, use c++ as its universally present in all platforms…
To the user most of that is completely meaningless as the UI is diferent in different platforms, the trick is that the UI layer is thin enough that development of that area is easy and the app can be ported to any platform.
The fact remains that different interaction methodologies require different UI’s.
Everybody is going down the converged route. Even android 5 is rumoured to dual boots chrome os now.
though dual boot is already available for android, it was the lg phone from CES, Though u can omly boot another android OS so basically the concept is one for work one for play
I can’t wait to buy a windows tablet now. Currently, Samsung Series 7 Slate is under my consideration.
But I wonder if it is a wrong decision to buy it now. Or should I get one after Win 8 is released? (Probably at that time other companies will come out with cheaper and better tablet)