John Weber allegedly wrote:
> I thought I would let you know that you are not alone on this one.  I
> don't care how good the book is, I will not puchase a book in that title
> line.

To bring this back on-topic, I'm reminded of a reported Jeff Hawkins quote:
"It's not for you dummy.".  He allegedly said this to a programmer who
wanted to add some nifty feature which would not be intuitive for the
average customer.

I don't care to be called a dummy or buy products for dummys; but if I
know IDG had millions of happy customers willing to pay good money for
some of my knowledge, I would be glad to author an "xyz for Dummies"(tm)
book.

Same with designing PalmOS software; sometimes I design in features (that
I thinks are silly for my own use) because customers request them or
because it seems to make sense for a large class of of customers (just
not me).

--
Ron Nicholson
HotPaw software

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