On 17 Apr 2007, at 09:47, Shlomi Fish wrote:
Well, I've started concentrating facts and links against Apple here:
http://www.shlomifish.org/open-source/anti/apple/
"Joel on Software's story about Pete and Gena - illustrates the
fact that Apple
lacks a lot of Windows' (and Linux-based desktops) usability
improvements."
Absolute nonsense. He demonstrates that his hypothetical Windows user
('Pete') finds it hard to use a Mac because it's not what he's
familiar with. He then goes on to point out that the whole question
of usability is dominated by people's expectations based on their
prior experience.
"All those flame wars you read on the OS bigot websites about user
interface issues focus on the wrong thing. Windows is better because
it gives you more ways to resize the window. So what? That’s missing
the point. The point is, does the UI respond to the user in the
way in
which the user expected it to respond? If it didn’t, the user is
going to feel like they can't control the interface, and they're
going
to be unsuccessful. That's all there is to it. Something is
usable if
it behaves exactly as expected. Tattoo this on your forehead.
Backwards, so you can read it in the mirror.
Also:
Jokes
Mac O'Sucks - my pun on Mac OS X.
This 'joke' fails to satisfy the main criterion for humour.
--
Andy Armstrong, hexten.net
