"Nick Sabalausky" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > "Stewart Gordon" <[email protected]> wrote in message > news:[email protected]... >> >> I've been reminded of the iMac G3 that I was made to use for some of my >> time as a PhD student. Just the backspace key, no delete key. And no Fn >> key to make some of the keys double as different keys - those keys they >> felt people could live without they just left off. >> > > That's really one of the main reasons I don't consider Apple to be good at > design: Anytime they notice that something isn't *needed* by *all* users, > they just throw out instead of leaving it as an option. They seem to feel > that personal customization and preferences are an "evil" that infringes > on the uniformity of their brand image (Which also explains their love for > DRM and gatekeeping). >
To clarify, I don't mean "DRM" in the sense of music/videos or game-industry-rootkits. I mean in terms of using it to artificially limit what users are able/allowed to do with their own devices.
