2010/1/25 Jason Snell <[email protected]> > This is an interesting point. Why are we here? > > Apple already makes a mail program geared toward the non-power user. >
Maybe I am the middle man (the one that does not have the pretention to be a power user but is more than a complete newbie). > > I am interested in hearing what makes this project appeal to a user who > feels they aren't advanced, yet for some reason doesn't want to use > Mail.app. > I have been teaching computing to a group of people in France (to be frank, I was the assistant of the "teacher") What l have learned? That using simple words to be really and perfectly understood by persons who don't have the same culture and to hear "Thanks, Michel, to have explained clearly what he was saying. I have understood." has been the greatest gratification I have received during these two years. When I think to that, it's with the greatest emotion ! Also by using simple terms, it makes the program usable (and more important, understood) by people from other countries (as me). As I have read it, the purpose of this project is to create a product that > is not meant to appeal to every possible customer. While creating a program > that is elegant and easy to use should always be a goal of any piece of > software, the goal of this software is to also fill an ecological niche that > Mail.app does not already reside in, and appeal to a group of users who are > unfulfilled by what Mail.app offers. > Maybe, I am also unfulfilled by what Mail.app offers too ! For me (and maybe for other users even power users), being able to express complicated ideas in simple terms and to share them is THE quality I hope to find in a power user! I hope for you too ... Michel > > > On Jan 24, 2010, at 11:25 AM, Michel Tribet wrote: > > > I want to ask you to be simple, to use words that > > everybody can understand, to not make me (and the other basic users) run > away from this list because, in my opinion, you will lose that will > > make your first "customers" : the > "would-want-to-be-power-users-but-are-far-to-be" boys. > > -- > Jason Snell / VP & Editorial Director, Macworld / [email protected] > Office: 415-868-4341 / AIM: MW jsnell / twitter.com/jsnell > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > List help: http://lists.ranchero.com/listinfo.cgi/email-init-ranchero.com >
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