>> Dan Shafer writes: >> >> <<The real sweet spot market for Revolution, as it was >> for HyperCard and the other xCard products, is what I have long been >> referring to as the Inventive User (IU). IUs are people who: >> 1. Know their computers can do so much more to help them with their >> work than anyone has yet made them do. >> 2. Are smart and creative. >> 3. Can envision the solutions. >> 4. Are not professionally trained programmers or at least if they were >> at one point no longer earn their living coding >> 5. Probably working in a team or workgroup setting where they are the >> local IT department >> >> Those folks -- and there are millions of them -- NEED Revolution. >> Badly. But they're not going to take the time to tinker and learn the >> product after opening Revolution and being faced with a blank screen >> and a bunch of loosely connected floating palettes. Heck, they don't >> even get a blank stack window let alone a starting point. >>
One way to begin this might be through the education market. Provide a small amount of scaffolding within Rev, include a large number of immediately useful examples which can be studied and modified, and a short intro booklet. And include pictures of working programs on the package, so people see immediately what's possible. Sandy _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
