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GUI Pioneer Jef Raskin Has Passed Away
Viridian writes "Jef Raskin, GUI pioneer, interface expert, Apple employee #31, and the man most credited with the creation of the Apple Macintosh, died of cancer on Saturday February 26, 2005. It was Raskin who named it after his favorite fruit, the McIntosh apple, although he said that he changed the spelling to "Macintosh" to avoid potential copyright conflicts with McIntosh, the audio equipment manufacturer."
Because part of the apple "mystique" is the Steve Jobs personality cult.
If he directly admits that some random employee developed the macintosh and did all the gui work he won't look like mr. visionary delivering you your ticket to hipness for the right price.
You want to try an Egremont Russet, if you can get them. But maybe they're not available in the USA (I'm guessing that is where you are), because they don't look like an American's stereotype of an apple: they're not red.
That's complete bullshit, and probably a troll to boot.
The original Apple Computer logo was a woodcut drawing of Isaac Newton sitting beneath an apple tree with the inscription, "A mind forever voyaging through strange seas of thought alone. You can see a picture of it here. The bitten-apple logo was an invention of Rob Janoff of Regis McKenna.
"Let's start over, and lets do it right." they say, for the moment discarding their most important UI designer clothes - "Be familiar", and "Conform to expectations."
It would almost be forgivable is The Humane Interface was actually any good. But as it stands, and how it's stood for years is as rudimentary text editor with keystokes which are easily as confusing as vi or emacs. If it were any good, perhaps at least some people would use it for real work, perhaps having finished it first. But they don't.