Friday, April 14, 2000, 12:30:10 PM, Allie wrote:
> This ideal setup that you're speaking of imposes an increased
> degree of complexity to the user. He buys an e-mail application and now
> has to worry about getting an editor and now has to worry about getting a
> image viewer and now has to worry about installing a browser and now has
> to ..... etc. etc.
We have discussed this before and you know this is patently false. It is
more complex as now the user has to learn 20-30 different implementations of
everything, none of which talk to each other in an respectable fashion. If we
had specialized tools we'd also develop the communication between them which
would make it fairly seamless. Then the user would have to learn
1 editor
1 spell checker
1 graphics view
etc, etc, etc.
That is /LESS/ complex.
> Very often, he wishes to write simple notes, yet he has to learn vim to do
> this or something like vim.
No, he learns the editor he chooses to learn. Vim is one such editor,
notepad is another. Yes, you have to learn notepad.
> He may wish to only view images in his mail and yet he has to get ACDSee or
> something of the sort etc. etc.
And these people don't view images elsewhere? They cannot use other
tools? Instead we have to have that redundant code built into the email
client where it doesn't below and where it /BREAKS/ on reading JPG support and
now we have to wait for a new release of the email client to fix that instead
of just changing to a different viewer? That is /simpler/ to you?
> The average user out there responds a lot better and gets going a lot easier
> with monolithic apps.
Only because that is what they are introduced to and because the course of
interprocess communication has atrophied because of those same applications.
As a result, as I've said, they are now learning 5-20 times /MORE/ than they
need to.
> Windows offers an approach that's more average user friendly.
User hostile. It is hostile for a reason.
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