At 12:36 2009-08-26, Stephen Russell <srussell...@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Gene Wirchenko<ge...@ocis.net> wrote:
> > At 10:15 2009-08-26, Christof Wollenhaupt <foxp...@gmx.de> wrote:
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> >>Users get confused because they are forced to know what the difference
> >>between a Word document, and open office document and a PDF file is. As far
> >>as the user is concernced they have documents they can edit, and those they
> >>can't edit. In all cases they want to be able to print, view and
> email them.
> >>They couldn't care less what document type a document is and what
> >>application is necessary to open it. And they shouldn't need to care.
> >
> > A similar argument could be made about motor vehicles, and yet,
> > who would seriously argue that a vehicle user should not have to know
> > the difference between a car, a moving van, and an ATV?
>You are confusing PC, apple and dumb terminal which the user probably
>knows, at least with the past 2 years of mac vs. PC ads.
I do not think so. The file types have their similarities but
also their differences. This is the same for the vehicle types.
>We ae talking about 2lt engines or 3.5lt engines. Many drivers don't
>know their engine displacement when asked at AutoZone. At least I get
>behind them in line way to often!
No, this is a deeper level of detail than car vs. truck et al.
Sincerely,
Gene Wirchenko
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