Subj : Re: SSH on BBSes
To   : Arelor
From : boraxman
Date : Mon Apr 18 2022 11:45:20

 Ar>  > It seems it has been an industry goal to make computers easy to use tho
 Ar>  > had heard that when Apple was working on their Macintosh, they wanted t
 Ar>  > to basically be like an appliance - something that could be placed anyw
 Ar>  > the home and used easily.  Apple seemed to try to make things easy to u
 Ar>  > some people do tend to think things "just work" with a Mac.
 Ar>  > Microsoft and IBM were similar in the 80s and 90s - First they had the 
 Ar>  > operating systems, and then wanted to make computers easier to use with
 Ar>  > operating systems like Windows and OS/2.  Windows 95 was really hyped u
 Ar>  > it was released, as it was a significant change from Windows 3.1, and i
 Ar>  > Microsoft was trying to make PCs easier to use with Windows 95.
 Ar>  > 
 Ar>  > Nightfox
 Ar> 
 Ar> If you are a company selling domestic equipment for general use, you
 Ar> want to be able to sell as much as possiblñe regardless of the ability
 Ar> of your customers to actually use it :-)
 Ar> 
 Ar> I personally think the idea that Apple products just work has been
 Ar> generated by marketing rather than by actual product design. Apple
 Ar> customers have this idea that their products are so much easier to use
 Ar> than the competitor's but in this day and age any consumer-grade piece
 Ar> of electronics is a no-brainer to use.
 Ar> 
 Ar> Notice that Microsoft's developments regarding ease of use were aimed at
 Ar> domestic markets mostly. DOS and DOS based products were supposed to be
 Ar> the low tier in their software line. For serious users they had UNIX
 Ar> products instead.
 Ar> 

I was assigned an Mac Air at work, and the only thing about it which I found better than Windows was the terminal and access to unix tools, and python being installed.  It wasn't easier to use, MS Office was jankier, and there was little option to configure the appearance.

Apple is probably easier to use for people that don't really do anything with it.

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