On Friday 18 October 2002 13:51, Patrick Shirkey wrote: > I see your point. But feel that the problem is not that it is too > difficult or ugly for the majority of people but that we have not > done a good enough job of showing how worthwhile it is to spend long > hours on figuring out how to get the stuff working.
People want it simple - they want to buy it in a box and for it to work and then probably to discard it or forget about it. Anything above that is pure geekiness. This isn't to say there's not a place for geekiness - it's just that most people don't want it. Steve's mention of Carillon seemed pretty much on the money. B