On Sunday, January 06, 2002 , Jan Rifkinson wrote the following in regards to: [Keyboard navigation]
Clarifications: 1. TB is a great product. I use it every day and some of my customers too. 2. The #1 downfall of TB is the documentation or the lack of it. On regular basis my customers have to fight TB to get it do what they need, then somewhere on the list somebody mentions: ...but that's build-in... just use Ctrl-Shift-Alt.... 3. I could have sold quite a few more, if there were some decent help files. 4. I could have sold a lot more, if there were some great help files. +-------------- JR> Hello Joe. JR> At 3:55 PM on Saturday, January 05, 2002 you wrote the JR> following in regards to my comments to Syv on the JR> posted subject 'Keyboard navigation': syv>>>> These are the kind of things that make sure that syv>>>> TB is not commercial success! Jan>>> Just curious: how do you conclude this is a fact? Joe>> I think this falls into the realm of common sense, Joe>> Jan. JR> I've been following the philosophical discussion on JR> common sense that you've been having with Thomas JR> which emanated from my question -- very interesting. JR> This whole branch probably belongs on TBOT, but JR> anyway, I just wanted to jump back in here for a JR> moment to say that the real question I was asking was JR> how Syv had determined for an absolute *fact* that JR> TB! was not a Cx success. After all, what Microsoft JR> or Syv (or anyone -- I'm not picking on you, Syv) JR> considers a Cx success is not necessary the JR> benchmark. JR> Personally I think TB! is already a success because JR> its here, it works better than all/most email clients JR> currently on the market & has so many devoted users JR> even tho it has limited resources for advertising & JR> marketing. Can it use more users? Sure. Will it get JR> them? Probably... as we all proselytize the world to JR> The Bat. JR> In addition, I would imagine you'd agree that success JR> can change with age. What one considers a success @ JR> 20 yrs of age can be very different from what one JR> considers a success @ 60 yrs of age. That's called JR> perspective. JR> However, I hope for the sake of RitLabs that TB! is JR> at least successful enough presently to keep the JR> RITLab families in food, clothing & under a heated JR> roof besides providing the fellows the freedom to JR> continue TB's march towards the ultimate success that JR> Svy & others think it can achieve. JR> Oh, & BTW, I certainly agree that easier makes for JR> more popular. OE fits that description, doesn't it? JR> :-) +-------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ REAL PROBLEMS / REAL SOLUTION ISSN: 1492-7829 Technical information on Windows and networking http://www.911networks.com Copyright 1999-2002 by 911networks.com - All Rights Reserved +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ -- ________________________________________________________ Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Vers: 1.53d FAQ : http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com
