Ease of Use (Was: Re: APPLEVISION Monitor)

From: James B. DiGriz <jbdigriz_at_dragonsweb.org>
Date: Tue May 7 11:49:52 2002

Paul Thompson wrote:
> On Tue, 7 May 2002, Douglas H. Quebbeman wrote:
>
>
>>so that nearly anyone can use it? And are you aware that in
>>the minds of marketing people, the market is *far* from
>>saturated, as there are still lots of people who never use
>>them and don't have them. So you can expect another order of
>>magnitude of dumbing-down...
>>
>
> In the minds of marketing people, what seems to be needed is making the
> computer into an appliance. I don't see how this idea is compatible with
> the flexibility current users have come to expect
>

As usual, marketing people have it bass-ackwards. What you want to do is
  to turn appliances into computers, and that's what's happening.
Everything else will flow from that, given access, which is where the
battle is.

But this is classiccmp, not scificomp.

jbdigriz
Received on Tue May 07 2002 - 11:49:52 BST