6 May
2002
6 May
'02
7:37 a.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: Cameron Kaiser [mailto:spectre@stockholm.ptloma.edu]
> Sorry, I have to argue with you here ;)
> The fact (well, at least my opinion) is that Apple makes it easy to
> remain completely ignorant of most important things about their
> computer while still "using" them.
For five years? Granted, I'm a bit more clueful
than the
Well, again, all I can say is that I've seen it happen. More extreme
than the usual case, of course, but it's certainly not impossible.
Though, Dick actually strikes me as more clueful than the last
person that I know who managed it.
average home computer
user, but within weeks I was into the guts of my Macs. Not to
the extent I'm
into my C64, but that's a less complex system.
Yep. It's not impossible, given the motivation. Most people
are missing that part, though ;)
At the very least, in five years he could have learned
to
write Macintosh
correctly.
Could have -- may not have.
Apple actually has very good utility software. MPW has
been
free for some
time, for example. And there's the Apple Developer
Hey, I love MPW. It's great. I used it daily when I was writing
Mac code, but it certainly didn't come with the system, and it's
not something that Apple encourages people to have.
Connection, too, which
you can browse freely, and oodles of tech notes and explanations.
Indeed. Apple is much friendlier to developers than microsoft,
who I find that I have to deal with recently. :/
Like everything else in life, you get out of the
system what
you put into it.
Yep, which brings us back to my point that Apple really doesn't
encourage people to learn about their systems. They've positioned
themselves as "the system that you don't have to put so much
into," have they not?
Chris
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