On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 20:26:17 +0000, this_address_is_for_spam@yahoo.co.uk (David
Horne, _the_ chancellor of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate) wrote:
>Deeply Filled Mortician
>wrote:
>
>> On 18 Dec 2006 06:39:41 -0800, jeremyrh.geo@yahoo.com wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >Deeply Filled Mortician schreef:
>>
>> >> Knowing Mike's experience, it could have connected to the net to
>> >> download a couple of meg of 'Info'.
>> >>
>> >> Both the words Get and Info are incredibly vague, and I would never
>> >> choose them when a more specific name would have been appropriate.
>> >
>> >You seem to be desperately looking for something to criticise. If this
>> >is all you can find then it seems like the UI is doing pretty well.
>>
>> It's my professional area of expertise, so yes, I am very fussy about
>> it. I know that end users decide very quickly whether a piece of
>> software is shit or not within the first few minutes, and they expect
>> it to behave as they expect to behave. Once they have decided it's
>> shit, it's near impossible to change their minds. These problems cause
>> many an implementation to become a total .up.
>>
>> The end users are correct - always. In this case, Mr Reid is most
>> certainly correct. He was trying to guess his way through, and that is
>> what people expect to be able to do in this day and age.
>
>iReid is unusual in not being able to figure out itunes straight away. I
>don't think that apple ill worry about the occasional user like that.
There could be millions like Mike. I share a house with one.
If Mike is doing Carol's installations for her, Mike shares a house with one
too.
--
Martin
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