[X4U] No AppleWorks on intel iMacs?

[Eugene]

On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 09:04:02AM CST, Richard Gilmore <rgilmor at uwo.ca> wrote:
: 
: Simplicity is outlawed today. But applications were simple ?back then?
: because programming and computers in general were ?simple? especially
: compared with today. But tomorrow?s apps are going to make today?s look
: simple too. I don?t think anything today can be marketed as ?simple? though
: because it will be criticized as hobbled or having ?few features and
: functionality.? People today expect the apps they buy or use to be capable
: of anything and if they buy software package Y and then discover that it
: can?t do this or that (no matter how trivial) but if they only bought
: software package X it could do all that and more then they?re going to feel
: stupid or ripped off and they?ll never buy Y again and Y will be out of
: business so fast. The competition in the computer world is fierce. Nothing
: can be marketed as simple anymore.

Simple is easy.  Simple-to-use is hard.  The real problem is
that most industries today are not interested in working on
solutions that are too hard.


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Eugene
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