RE: Apple and Cocoa (why don't they eat their own dog food?)

FROM : Andrea Perego
DATE : Tue Jan 14 20:12:40 2003

At 7:07 PM -0800 1/13/03, Gregory Weston wrote:
>  if the goal is to
>achieve an intuitable interface, is there sense in acknowledging
>that 99.44% of
>Mac users are also familiar with Windows so maybe some of the Windows
>conventions should be adopted - after careful consideration - from simple
>pragmatism.


Please, No! I get the creeps whenever someone proposes to adopt
something just because it's popular [I see your point, Greg,;  I
acknowledge your wise requirement: "after careful consideration" and
I'm *not* criticizing you. I'm looking at the issue from a broader
pov], the more so when the "something" in question comes from a
company owned by "microsama bill gates".
Maybe the reason is that I'm one of those 0.36%  Mac users unfamiliar
with windoze, or, more precisely, of those 0.01%  who *never used*
windoze
(I just refuse to *touch* any wintel contraption) ;->.
Of course, a balance must be maintained between standardization and
innovation, and Apple's history shows clear examples of good and
not-so-good moves in both directions (adoption of UNIX <-> loss of
features due to cheaper pc-derived hw
in some past model; introduction of .... [you name it, from the
mouse to the  17" laptop and beyond] <-> OpenDoc, QuickDraw GX, etc.
[not implying that they were bad "per se"]) but when in doubt, I'd go
for "think different"!

Andrea Perego
University of Florence - Phys. Dept.
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