On 25/11/2002 22:46, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I heard a woman recently say "windows is so much better than mac", and I said
> ironically "yeah, I think I'll get one too to take advantage of the free
> games that come in cereal boxes" and I smiled. It goes to show you the
> extremes Bill Gates goes to keep Windows machines at a higher percentage in
> the market, and people often bite the hook. It seems Apple's new campaign is
> working and with the great/rare looking products; some people can't just
> resist. Upon sitting and dealing with the mac they like it and people who's
> never seen it, consider a thrill dumping a CD in the trash to eject it and/or
> see the trash full when you trash something. No matter what, I always liked
> the OLD fat trash-can icon better (remember Oscar The GROUCH?.... sigh....
> the good old days). The trash can icon was so unique! It was unrealistic,
> it was funny, it was sympathetic, it was rare... I liked it! :-D
>
> Liliana
I recently moved to Fairbanks, AK from Seattle, and when I ask clients if
they'd prefer to work on a PC or Mac, most of them here look at me with a
puzzled expression, as in "What's a Mac?" The strange thing here is that
most people dislike M$ but continue to use their products, without much
understanding of PCs and Windows. The people just expect the computer to run
like a toaster. This is Fairbanks, Liliana. People just want something they
can set up and run. Result: PCs that are _all_ messed up.
Today a client needed files scanned and brought in a PC floppy :~ (. Windows
2000 couldn't open the files. Took it to a G4, got into Photoshop, no
problem. Told him the Mac could read it. "Eeww, a Mac!" was his response. I
had his photos scanned, cropped, and printed in less than five minutes. I
asked him when the last time he used a Mac was. "Never," he said. "I've just
heard Macs suck." "Well, look at this," I said, and I took him through a
basic Photoshop trip. Did a lot of it fast with key commands, quit
everything, and threw all the copies of his stuff I'd saved to the Desktop
into the Trash on 9.1. He watched it all like it was magic and heard that
little thump as the copies landed in the Trash. That and the ease of
scanning and importing it into Photoshop may have got him hooked.
He was smiling. I don't see that response very often with people dealing
with Windows.
He chuckled when the copies of his stuff hit the Trash and he heard that
thump.
He probably has never seen the "fat can" in his life, but just little
touches like the OS 9 "thump" and seeing the lid pop open started to do the
job.
Oh, and he asked me after the "thump" if it was okay to delete the files.
Cool thing was, he got a warning with the visual signal (open lid) and the
thump and asked me if I knew what I was doing. Double warning. I ejected his
disk with Command+E and did Command +Shift + Delete and said sure.
So, I guess my point is that people who have never worked on a Mac can find
the OS 9.1 Trash also very... "unrealistic," "funny," "sympathetic," and
"rare." And that's a good thing lol.
But I'm still a holdout for the return of System 6 :)
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Best,
Greg Burkman
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"Make choices that mean less convenience today in order to have liberty
tomorrow."
-- Dan Gillmore
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