Maybe I'm just looking at this the wrong way, but the way I'm seeing it they've developed an application with "layers" (or "windows" if you like).
Wasn't the selling point of the iPad that it was a simple to use platform and device, with everything running fullscreen and without confusing stacks and layers of applications and windows? That it wasn't a "normal" computer?
Amazing how quickly things go full circle these days.
The iPad app works in 'layers' in the sense that each time you drill down into something (a tweet, a user account, etc.), it shows that on top of what you were doing before, but still shows a slim strip on the left so that you can go back to where you were.
There's no mixing around, and everything's entirely linear. That's different from a windowing system, in which several different things are clamoring for your attention and mixing together.
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Maybe I'm just looking at this the wrong way, but the way I'm seeing it they've developed an application with "layers" (or "windows" if you like).
Wasn't the selling point of the iPad that it was a simple to use platform and device, with everything running fullscreen and without confusing stacks and layers of applications and windows? That it wasn't a "normal" computer?
Amazing how quickly things go full circle these days.
The iPad app works in 'layers' in the sense that each time you drill down into something (a tweet, a user account, etc.), it shows that on top of what you were doing before, but still shows a slim strip on the left so that you can go back to where you were.
There's no mixing around, and everything's entirely linear. That's different from a windowing system, in which several different things are clamoring for your attention and mixing together.
Considering Apple has a native way for showing UIViewControllers as windows, overlayed on top of your app, I'll have to disagree with you on that.
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