Andrei, excellent point about 3.5" floppies. I recall Jef Raskin words about that design decision: 5 1/4" floppy drives, cheaper and more common, allowed the user to eject the disk while data was being read or written.
I also remember first hand how System 7 took its (my) time to verify data while copying. Windows, on the other hand, didn't care if drive A: was actually behaving as NULL: Back then, I knew of no users who understood or valued those decisions. The second one even fueled the idea that Macs were slow and inefficient. On this examples, Apple's approach towards the user was not a democratic "user centered" or "user focused" one, but rather a "paternalistic" approach: do good to the user, without him/she asking or even recognizing it. -- Santiago Bustelo, Icograma Buenos Aires, Argentina // IxDA Buenos Aires: http://www.ixda.com.ar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=45169 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
