APPLEVISION Monitor

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Mon May 6 16:20:37 2002

Doesn't your Mac have a spell-checker?

No offense intended, but if you'd use the thing, it would point out your
errors, just as you point out mine, and you'd eventually remember how to spell
a few more of the words you use.

On topic ... I'm interested in how the Mac is more prone to promote
productivity than the Windows environment. I have limited long-term exposure
to the Mac, and never liked a minute of it, admittedly because it was
different from what I was accustomed to using. Nevertheless, my recent
exposure is causing me to take another look. It doesn't demand I learn lots
of cryptic codes that have to be entered at the console, and it doesn't even
require I learn the path names to the objects on which I want to operate.

If I could convince myself that it allows for more ease of use, I'd be a lot
more interested.

I'm really not interested in a perpetual argument about what's better, though
that's what every Mac/*nix/PC discussion seems to become. Each system has a
place and it's figuring out how to apply each of them that's important.
Better is strictly a term for the dilettante until an application is defined.

more questions below.

Dick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris" <mythtech_at_mac.com>
To: "Classic Computer" <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 2:42 PM
Subject: Re: APPLEVISION Monitor


> >> I'm sorry... I just can't do it any more.
> >>
> >Then don't ... When you get old enough that you're out in the working
world,
> >where your performance is measured on whether or not you meet schedule and
> >budget, and not on how cute your comments are, you'll understand the
> >realities
> >of why people use what they do. If you're just idly fiddling with
something
> >interesting at home, nobody cares how long it takes you.
>
> Actually... I am in the working world... and the reason I like the Mac so
> much more is because it IS more productive for the needs here than
> Windows.
>
What advantages do you see in the approach taken by Apple over that taken by
the PC-community. Keep in mind that there are significant limits on what any
one vendor, even the giant gorilla, can have, since there are many vendors of
PC products and many fewer in the Mac world.
>
> I had a whole long winded explination for this, but I decided not to
> waste bandwidth, and I summed it up to this.
>
> Increase in employee productivity, reduction of costs, and reduction of
> support time directly translate into two things that effect my life.
>
> 1: increase in free time
> 2: increase in year end bonus
>
Please be sepecific as to how these are achieved as opposed to how that would
be achieved under, say, Windows or Unix.
>
> So where I have flexibility to choose what systems are installed... I
> choose them based on what will maximize the above two points.
>
> It is greedy, selfish, and egotistical for me to place my personal
> choices on everyone else here... but since in order for me to increase
> what I want, I have to make their lives easier, and I have to reduce
> costs, no one has yet to complain about my choices.
>
If you can achieve that, then more power to you, but how?
>
Received on Mon May 06 2002 - 16:20:37 BST