Sometimes it looks like the focus is more on what he personally wants
than what we... the users... need or want.
Take the near demise of the Desktop metaphor Finder (specifically as
iconic/object representations) in the first round of OSX... I for one
spent 5 years in a firm moving people from command line interfaces to
GUIs... not because it made money, but because our brains process
massive amounts of information faster visually and we see patterns in
that information easier visually... comes with being human. Returning
to list mode as a primary interface experience is only "better" for a
small section of the population.... Motif and NextStep were very well
done GUIs, so that's not where it came from.
If you look at his history... Steve gets off into his own trips
occasionally - like any high energy, creative genius - and they aren't
all good for Apple or users. Thankfully those around him have
maintained a balance... but as the stakes get larger, so do the chances
for really big mistakes
Sandra Ragan
www.plumdigital.com
On Jan 12, 2006, at 2:00 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Jan 12, 2006, at 12:31 PM, sandra ragan wrote:
Apple has a hard road to walk... getting people past the old wives
tales..
Which it's been doing by leaps and bounds in the last few years.
but I often fear Job's erratic personal agenda will deprive us of the
platform we've come to depend on over the years (20 of them in my
case).
Talk about 'old wives tales'. What do you mean by 'erratic personal
agenda'?
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