Did we all just witness Windows start to die?

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And the ribbon in Word/Excel etc is even harder to use on a touch screen than it is on a non-touch screen.

The ribbon interface is the epitome of horrific, terrible, badly thought out design. I wish death upon the person who thought it up, and their families. There is much hate here.

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Just in case no one got it, I really hate the Ribbon Interface!!!!!!!!

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Seriously, I like the Ribbon a lot and it's the only thing I miss in Office 2011 for Mac! (it's kind of a ribbon prototype in Mac Office).

The big problem is that ribbons don't make logical groupings. Sure you can put things where you want them, but that is no help to me when I want to do something in different office applications, cut and paste is in different places... What if I want to use someone else's computer, etc... I can't find anything. And since the tried and tested (since 1984) menu bar is gone, I don't have any fall back options.

There is no logic in the ribbon interface.

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Didn't Jobs say something like "Good artists copy, great artists steal!"?

Wise words, and usually I couldn't stand the man! lol

He did say it... But he stole it from someone else...

I have to say I really didn't like Jobs as a person (and reading his biography didn't help), but the one this I did like about him was the fact that it felt like he actually used the products Apple sold. No sense of committee or compromise, the product did exactly what he want and did it perfectly. And I have to be honest, that makes for a product that feels "better", despite not having all the wiz bang features one might want!

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In theory I should prefer Android over iOS, but since I have a developer licence for my iOS devices... I have the advantages of Android with the convenience and security of iOS. And as it happens I prefer Objective-C to Java (both great languages, just Obj-C fits better with my thinking)... So iOS is now my main OS, which is a crazy thought actually!?

-Edit- actually my own personal projects almost always use a Linux kernel (still can't get real time to work though), with the GNUStep framework

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never actually had it work right. Well, maybe once...Takes forever, more than once its crashed leaving the phone in an non-bootable state. Apple in all their user-friendliness cant check if you have enough space prior to starting, and I had a SSD.  If I NEVER see iTunes again it will be too soon.

If you look in Settings->General->Usage it gives you a full and detailed audit of your memory usage (and other usage metrics)... Also, an upgrade, OS or app won't start if there isn't enough storage space.

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iTunes is 99.99% of the reason I am entirely steering clear of any Apple mobile devices in the future.  Sadly, until this ipad gives up the ghost, I'm still locked into their ecosystem.

iTunes is the biggest gongshow, trainwreck piece of software on the Windows platform by far.  Not to be a conspiracy theorist, but I think that's entirely intentional on Windows.  It runs fine on a Mac, but not on Windows.  I think they figure I'll get irked enough so I'll replace all my PC's with Mac's, lol.

I've had ZERO, and I mean ZERO issues with itunes on my macs.  Friendly on memory, never crashes or bogs the machines down.  Windows though, oooh boy, completely different story.  Not uncommon on my systems to find it using 2+ GB of system RAM doing nothing at all, just the program loaded not even playing music or with a device attached.

I have both iPad and iPhone, I don't like iTunes either. Since iOS 6, I haven't had to use iTunes anymore, as everything can be done using iCloud.