With all due respect, Jef Raskin is completely out of the current loop, and looking foreword to utopian ideals.
With that said, Steve Jobs himself spoke at the last keynote (regarding iTools, etc...) directly about shifting away from the operating system to manage files, etc... and letting the programs do the work in a manner which is convenient. Anyone whose cracked open the OSX Beta Developer tools (free download, and well worth exploring for newbies) will see this successfully at work with programs like project builder. From a programming/UNIX newbie, it's very well designed- an interface to rapidly design applications.
From an an old-school graphics/video editor/ general mack-jack, much proops to Raskin, though he's definatly not using the tools for any 'practical' uses today, especially in the consumer realm, and is out of the Apple/GUI concept loop. As usual, apple is sufficently handling several process concepts simultaneously.
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With all due respect, Jef Raskin is completely out of the current loop, and looking foreword to utopian ideals. With that said, Steve Jobs himself spoke at the last keynote (regarding iTools, etc...) directly about shifting away from the operating system to manage files, etc... and letting the programs do the work in a manner which is convenient. Anyone whose cracked open the OSX Beta Developer tools (free download, and well worth exploring for newbies) will see this successfully at work with programs like project builder. From a programming/UNIX newbie, it's very well designed- an interface to rapidly design applications.
From an an old-school graphics/video editor/ general mack-jack, much proops to Raskin, though he's definatly not using the tools for any 'practical' uses today, especially in the consumer realm, and is out of the Apple/GUI concept loop. As usual, apple is sufficently handling several process concepts simultaneously.