Apple has had many chances to become the king of operating systems and the greatest hardware maker around and they have repeatedly thrown it all away. They had some of the best and brightest, most innovative engineers. They had so many great ideas and they failed to bring them to fruition. I worked there, I saw the greatness and the failure.
All that however, is countered by having an interface design and rules of usage that made all Mac software easy to use. One day at work my boss handed me an apple digital camera (the old 100 model) and asked me if I could make it work. I took some pictures, connected to the Mac and showed him his pictures. He being a Unix and PC guy was amazed that I didn't even have too read the instructions. I was amazed that anyone would think you'd have to. That's what made the Mac so great, an easy, simple, once learned, always known interface. And the rule that if your software didn't adhere to the rules no one would buy it. On the other hand Apple made some awful mistakes. They expected a limited market for the DOS card when they dropped it they were surprised by the demand, so they made people wait while they made a better model. They promised purchasers of the IIC a 32 bit clean ROM for the ROM slot, and never built it. Apple promised a lot, delivered a lot, but kept changing direction instead of staying focused. Remember "Desktop Mapping"? As for HyperCard, I used it when it was free, and purchased it when Claris sold it. But HyperCard needed more and apple didn't want to give it more. If they had made HyperTalk into a real programming language and a compiler they could have owned the world. One of apple's biggest failings is its failure to stick with things when they aren't an immediate success. This has nothing to do with revolution, except maybe that Apple started a revolution, and then threw it all away. James Z. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
