Regardless of the toy, don't you think spending more money, as long as others know it, is often the deciding factor? :=(
Jack --- On Fri, 4/30/10, William Robb <[email protected]> wrote: > From: William Robb <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: K-7 replacement? > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Date: Friday, April 30, 2010, 9:18 AM > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "CheekyGeek" > Subject: Re: K-7 replacement? > > > > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > >> Apple is very good at making it easy to do the > things that they think you > >> should do. It can be very challenging however if > you think differently. > > > > While this is a fairly obvious troll line, I must > respectfully disagree. > > Anyone who lived through (and with) the popularization > of computers > > among the masses must remember what it was like to > learn DOS and to be > > fumbling through a manual to learn the cryptic command > that one must > > type (without syntax errors) to accomplish ANYTHING > before the > > Macintosh. In contrast, upon seeing the first > Macintosh running in an > > Office supply store without knowing anything at all > about it, one > > could walk up... grab the single button mouse (which I > had never seen > > before) and it was immediately OBVIOUS what one would > do with it. > > Click, select, drag. One could easily learn to use > both applications > > MacWrite and MacPaint without ever cracking a book. It > was a paradigm > > changer: a computer which worked virtually as you > thought it should. > > > > Apple's Macintosh Interface Guidelines brought a > certain sanity to the > > user. You didn't need to learn a different location > for the menu > > command to open a file, or quit a program, or print. > Or to close a > > window, etc. This made learning a new program so much > easier as there > > were commonalities to the basic functions, for those > programs that > > stuck to the Guidelines. By any objective standard > Apple has made it's > > reputation on the opposite of what Larry says they > have done: Making > > things that just work pretty much the way you think > they should work. > > The fact that others have followed along and attempted > to do some of > > the same things (i.e. Windows) and that such things > are taken more for > > granted today, can still be seen in their more recent > products such as > > the iPod. > > I think we are talking about the world of computers today, > not what was happening a quarter century ago. > I suspect that at this point about the only thing that > seperates a Mac from a PC from a customer's POV is that the > PC will set you back a lot less money to get a machine that > will perform in a similar manner. > > William Robb > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > directly above and follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
