I think they were ok with HyperCard staying a fun toy for amateurs, but
they didn't want to blur the line by giving it full-blown professional
UI potential. Then their platform would have been populated by
half-baked applications that worked poorly but which could have
appeared superficially to have been produced by professionals and would
have helped define the Mac "experience" as amateurish. That would have
been bad for business and their reputation.
DTP programs used the computer to produce docs, for good or bad, but
they "weren't" the computer in the same way a Hypercard stack "became"
the computer while it was in use. Same for web pages, later on. They
were documents, not applications.
Mark
On Dec 9, 2005, at 3:03 PM, Bill Marriott wrote:
You mean, like how they abandoned desktop publishing because of all the
horrid newsletters that sprung into existence? And how the web never
took
off because of all the ugly sites? :)
Bill
"Mark Swindell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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HC's rep was so tarnished by all the unsightly crap put out there by
"the
rest of us" that they didn't want it associated in any professional
context with their upscale brand identity. Sure, there were nuggets
of
gold among the piles of HyperCard coal, but even they were covered in
black (and white) dust and hard to find.
-Mark
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