i.justrealized

Note the difference between the way Apple and open-source community does things. GNOME is just not cool enough.

This is what Apple iChat looks like in one of Apple’s site:

Apple iChat user interface

Apple essentially have gotten some happy people in their screenshot. At least they look happy too me.

And this is how GNOME Empathy looks like as one of GNOME’s screenshots:

GNOME Empathy screenshot

GNOME got 2 guys who appears not to have been that pleased with being selected for a screenshot demo. Granted both Apple and GNOME likes the racial diversity.

Open-source major weakness is with marketing, or rather the lack of. Now I really empathize…

Possibly related:

1. I love the new exposé
2. Ubuntu’s choice of icons
3. Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex working on Acer AspireOne
4. Reddit is now open-source

This entry was posted on Friday, March 20th, 2009 at 12:15 am and has been tagged apple, empathy, gnome, ichat, linux, marketing, opensource, ubuntu. Comments RSS feed.