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hey guys and welcome to this week's episode of d3 live today I'm going to be talking about the future of operating systems now of course for the past 15 20 years we pretty much use the same kind of basic operating system for example you have a desktop you have a row of applications you know you use your mouse your keyboard to navigate and it's been basically the same I mean if you took a person who is using Windows 95 you put them on a computer with windows 7 also they be able to figure it out pretty well same goes for example if you were using OS 7 and now you go up to you know Snow Leopard it's going to be a lot different sure but you're going to be able to get the general idea of it but now I in my opinion I think we're going through a major change in the industry so with the event of touchscreens with phones and tablets and whatnot I think that a lot of the people who were you know using a laptop using a desktop can very well in the next few years start moving over to tablets and of course everyone pretty much has a smartphone which kept course can do a lot of the stuff that you used to be able to do on a computer so you know there's a big thing about operating systems it's really going to be shaking up everything so if you take a look at the desktop and laptop our operating systems you'll see there are a lot of major things so for example with Windows 8 Windows 8 has a rude rheumatic redesign that is very very similar to what you might find on something like a windows phone 7 but of course it's going to be for a standard desktop laptop or of course a tablet now what this means is that especially for like tablets and devices with a touchscreen it's gonna work really nice as you can be able to pan and swipe and do all the kind of you know gestures and whatnot that you would expect to do but for on the desktop and the laptop you still have a very similar interface where you can still just click and go through the keyboard now as far as how that's going to work and how perfect it's going to be we're definitely gonna have to wait see but you can definitely tell that Microsoft has their eye on the future they're definitely looking towards the touchscreens being the you know the future of technology same goes for if you take a look at OS 10 lion a lot of the things that they've added or pretty much straight from iOS and especially on the iPad I'm you know there's a lot of course with the mac app store which is a little bit more of an abstract thing but of course there's the mac app store you have all kinds of different features that you know are very very similar looking to you know on iOS mean for example a lot of it they're trying to implement having a touch add so you know you have your multi-touch gestures all that kind of stuff hey then you look outside where HP is trying to get webos on computers now how that will work I know what it'll do all that kind of stuff who knows but we should be seeing webos on computers as well which of course is typically band just a touch screen only operating system so there's a lot of changes going on right now and I'm really excited about it ok so for the second segment d3 live I'll be taking live questions from everyone in the chat so echoed we have a ton of people in the room right now and of course as always every episode of d3 live is filmed in front of a live audience so let's go ahead just take a few questions what is my favorite OS let's not hard to say I mean I on the desktop I use windows uh it's not so much the windows is way better than OS 10 or way better than one external thing let's just because I've used it forever all the programs i rely on a daily basis wrong windows and it's just it's just simple it's just I know it nothing against OS 10 i love it was Tim like i said i love linux too but it's just a lot of the stuff is i'm on windows and there's no major reason for me to switch so that's my favorite OS on the desktop as far as mobile goes that's kind of harder um I love iOS obviously iOS has been fantastic but I'm really really starting to love webos webos is such an elegant operating system especially with the new hardware like the veer and the pre 3 and the touchpad all these new hardware all this new hardware I'm really looking forward to that so yeah hopefully that answered your question if I doesn't know what do I think of OS is going more and more mobile and touch friendly uh well I could kind of touched on earlier i think that there's good and bad i think that you know I still love it keyboard and mouse the thing that's still one of the best control methods around but touchscreens are definitely the future at least at least in part alongside keyboard and mouse if not just getting rid of the keyboard and mouse or getting rid of the mouse uh as long as they do keep like a an idea like Windows 8 don't abandon what already works i mean yeah i know that you know touch screens and stuff and for tablets yeah sure touchscreen only is going to work just fine but for laptops desktops and that kind of thing you do not really need to get rid of what's work just fine for the past few years so as long as they keep an eye on tablets everything but without you know hurting the core audience I've got no problem with it do I think I OS will have a fourth device well they technically do they have the apple TV is the ipod touch the iPhone iPad and Apple TV but yeah I do think that over time the Apple will expand their lineup I mean you know the first start with iphone add the ipod touch and recently they added like a year so they had an ipad so it's really good OS and personally i wouldn't be surprised if we had some kind of like a macbook air or like an ipad with a keyboard or something I'm I could definitely see them expanding it out because iOS is really good and I think there's a lot more opportunities out there for you know touchscreen os's and iOS not kind of stuff so yeah I think eventually maybe there might be a couple years but definitely think that we will be seeing some more devices like that uh Samsung's request for saying Apple's new devices silly uh yeah I don't honestly think that they're gonna get an okay on that I mean they might but I think most of that is if you guys are not familiar Samsung and Apple kind of getting into a legal battle about you know you copy me this that this techno it's all the kind of same stuff but uh yeah samsung I said that hey we want to see your ipad 3 and the iphone 5 and all these kind of devices which i don't think it's going to happen the first place but uh i think it's mostly just they're just going at back and forth just trying to get stuff done I mean it's just it's just politics um well well let's get enough users for developers to hop on board that's an excellent question one of the biggest things that one of my biggest problems about webos is the fact that there are not that many great apps so for example there's no official skype app just yet I mean there's a lot of like major apps like that you might want to find like Netflix or something on iphone android etc etc this is not on webos but as they start selling more phones all that kind of stuff hopefully developers will start taking notice and getting some good apps on webos in general so those guys that's it for this week's episode III lied if you enjoy definitely be sure to hit that subscribe button up above I do do three live every saturday at three o'clock eastern time so you can come watch the show live on blog TV or of course watch the pre-record episodes live on YouTube