> Monitors are bigger than ever with huge resolutions, and yet UIs are being dumbed down to uselessness and alienating an increasing number of users.
Looking at the screen resolution data of visitors to the web apps I’m working on, I’m still surprised by how many people are on 1024x768 screens and even smaller (often more than 50%). Don’t forget there’s a big crowd of people on small and cheap laptops in the developing world. New OSes should also serve this group.
>I’m still surprised by how many people are on 1024x768 screens and even smaller (often more than 50%)
I was also surprised when you said that, but after a few seconds of thought outside of my tech bubble where everyone has 4K/retina screens, I remembered that my parents, and my GF and her parents, all still use their 10+ year old PCs/laptops with low-res screens, so now I am not surprised anymore.
> Don’t forget there’s a big crowd of people on small and cheap laptops in the developing world.
In the developed world too, I'd think. It's not like Grandma -- or the kids / grandkids buying her a Christmas present -- are going to splurge more than a few hundred bucks on a laptop for her to Facebook with.
Looking at the screen resolution data of visitors to the web apps I’m working on, I’m still surprised by how many people are on 1024x768 screens and even smaller (often more than 50%). Don’t forget there’s a big crowd of people on small and cheap laptops in the developing world. New OSes should also serve this group.