Re: Someone please tell Steve Jobs . . .
- From: "Steve W. Jackson" <stevewjackson@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 14:36:21 -0500
In article <nobody-5793B3.11155919082005@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
John Rethorst <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> After some years of OSX, the smoke has cleared and:
AFter some years, it should be obvious that "OSX" is incorrect and its
proper name of "OS X" should apply. But that's just me...
>
> 1. The Dock is interface design on drugs. Xerox PARC found that menus
> work and users like them. Do we have to think _that_ different?
I don't know anything about what Xerox PARC found, and frankly don't
care. I like the Dock. And the concept is not so greatly different
from the Windows taskbar or the variety of features often used by Linux
users in their graphical desktop environments. Since so many users seem
to like and use such features, why not include them?
[ snip ]
> 3. The enormous overhead of users and permissions on OSX wastes
> everyone¹s time. The age when the family shared a computer is like
> the age when the family shared a TV set - dead and buried. Employees
> in large corporations don¹t need it either since they don¹t use Macs.
> Creative people, who do use Macs, don¹t need it since they can¹t get
> along with anyone well enough to share a computer no matter how much
> file permissions is implemented. But it¹s the first thing you should
> fix when troubleshooting.
Maybe you live in a different country from me, but where I live the age
of shared computers is far from dead -- much less buried. But even in
my house, where we have 3 Macs, I want my files on our designated
"server" system to be protected from my wife, the principal user of that
system. And I want my operating system files protected against any
accidental poking around, since even experienced users have been known
to do that in the absence of protection mechanisms.
Further, asserting that no "large corporations" use Macs is as
ridiculous as the assertion that all "creative people" are unable to get
along well with others...generalizations are the means by which people
show just how uninformed they actually are.
>
> 4. $129 for an OS upgrade that comprises one spiffy search feature
> plus a bunch of junk is not good business. I know that Jobs wants to
> _be_ Bill Gates, but why put that on the backs of the users?
Perhaps you should revisit what's really new in Tiger. My copy has a
great deal more "not junk" that's new than just Spotlight.
>
> But I hear it¹s a real bear to convince Jobs of anything. I think that¹s why
> Wozniak left Apple to teach kindergarten, to get some peace and quiet.
Woz can enjoy life the way he chooses. And Jobs isn't doing such a bad
job in the eyes of those who voted with their wallets and bought Tiger,
as I did.
= Steve =
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Steve W. Jackson
Montgomery, Alabama
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