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Advice for Developers: Make Common Usage Easy

Posted by timothy on from the thomas-sowell-is-smart-smart-smart dept.

Ken Hendrickson writes "Thomas Sowell has some fantastic common-sense advice for software developers from the viewpoint of an ordinary user: Make it easy to do what almost everybody wants to do. I don't believe he uses Free Software; that means that Microsoft is not satisfying their customers, and Free Software can perform better than Microsoft even in the ease of use area!"

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  1. Re:Yeah by timts · · Score: 0, Troll

    guess apple hasnot found what's necessary yet.

  2. It's called, Listening to Your Customers by bXTr · · Score: 0, Troll

    Fortunately Microsoft has been helping by shoveling new features into their Office products for many years.
    The reason for that is Microsoft listened to their customers and put the features the customers wanted into Office products. If anything, they have been doing this to a fault. Apple, on the other hand, pretty much ignores their customers telling them, "It's OK. You'll like it." F/OSS developers usually create things in order to "scratch a personal itch" rather than to satisfy a customer's particular needs. If something works well for the customer, that's good. Otherwise, well, you have the source code.
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    It's a very dark ride.