| I think you are spot on with your analysis. And while Plasma 5 looks good for OSS, it is far from consumer-ready. Look at the KDE Plasma 5 press release [0] versus the macOS Catalina press release [1]. KDE's looks like it was made in Wordpress. Look at this screenshot of Plasma shutting down [2]. The 'shutdown' text is so poorly aligned that it would give a proper UX designer heart palpitations. Compare to the iOS 'scandal' when calendar dates were mis-aligned by several pixels [3]. Overall, consumers do care about this - much more than you think. It's a non-negligable reason why Apple has the premium status that it does, particularly amongst creative industries (film, music, design). Good OSS UI/UX <<<<<< good commercial UI/UX. That's the state of the union (with the exception of few products like Firefox) and I wish it would change. [0]: https://kde.org/announcements/plasma5.0/ [1]: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/06/apple-previews-macos-... [2]: https://kde.org/announcements/plasma5.0/screenshots/shutdown... [3]: https://gizmodo.com/victory-apple-has-fixed-the-number-1-in-... |
