Wednesday, October 27, 1999, 5:25:16 PM, Paula wrote:
> Computers will become a more and more integral part of our lives, but
> they will look and behave nothing like these primitive, difficult to
> use, unreliable, frustrating tools we use now - and it won't be that
> long - but in the meantime, there are livings, even fortunes, still to be
> made.
Again, I take offense. I do not find my computers primative, difficult to
use, unreliable or frustrating. I find that people have unreasonable
expectations of what a computer should do and that they need to be educated to
the fact that their expectations are entirely unreasonable.
The alternative is the continued dumbing down of computers to a point
where they are virtually unusable by anyone other than complete idiots.
> If RIT Labs thought they had a chance of putting TB on even a small part
> of corporate desktops, do you think there would be any contest?
Yes, there would be.
> I think - having sort of forgotten now - that my point was that a
> software company has more to consider than a few e-mails posted to a
> user list with respect to providing news reading capabilities or
> anything else about the development of their product.
Exactly, like looking for a niche market a lot of people forget, including
you, repeatedly. The power user who doesn't want everything and the kitchen
sink in their program.
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