Given how rabid some Mac/iPad fans are, I'd say that Apple arouses many emotions.
-- Russ On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Jochen Fromm <[email protected]> wrote: > Recently my colleagues and I had a discussion if > developers can be "rockstars". Although developers > have to be very creative, and software development is really sometimes an > art, as Dave West argued recently, software products themselves have not the > same effect on people as paintings or songs. > > Leo Tolstoy argued in his essay "What Is Art?" that art must create a > specific emotional link between artist and audience, one that "infects" the > viewer. And Maya Angelou said "People will not remember what you did, they > will not remember what you said, they will remember how you made them feel." > > In other words, stars are famous because they arise strong emotions. We > enjoy literature, art, music and movies - even if they are imaginative > experiences - because at some level we don't distinguish these experiences > from real ones. > In this sense, developers can only become stars > in their own community - among the developers > themselves. The rest of the world will only see > the surface of their products, which will barely > arouse any emotion (except anger and frustration). Do you agree? > > -J. > > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >
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