Jef Raskin On The Mac

der Kopf writes "Jeff Raskin, one of the creators of the Macintosh and inventor of the click-and-drag interface, states in an interview for the British newspaper The Guardian that "the Mac is now a mess. A third party manual (Pogue's The Missing Manual) is nearly 1,000 pages, and far from complete. Apple now does development by accretion, and there is only a little difference between using a Mac and a Windows machine."" While I think Raskin has some good points, I think there's a far cry between the Mac & XP.

Comments

The one string guitar...

[rmdyer]

Don't you understand that playing a one string guitar is easier that 6? The Apple mentality is that we as users .... have no mentality, or dexterity. We are the equivalent to Steven Hawking, using a one button click device for user input. Why would we need anything else?

Re:Not jaded at all

[geoffspear]

Well, to be fair it's an article in the Guardian, where discussing the finer points of interface design would be above the head of the average reader. If it was an interview in a technical journal (or even somewhere like Wired), I think your criticisms of what was left out would be more deserved.

Switched BACK

[mildness]

I used a Mac back in the days of II LC for a while before being forced to the Dark Side.

Six months ago I bought my first Mac in over five years. My beautiful memories shattered when I found the once simple, light and elegant Mac GUI to have grown ugly and cluttered and realized that XP was in fact, easier to use.

Sure, MacOS X is sweet-ass under the hood but as a Power USER I never spend time there.

As much as I may hate MS, XP is a damn fine end-user OS.

My Powerbook will be listed on ebay this week.

Cheers,

Bill