Apple's being unintentionally ironic here. Their second attempt at an online service was eWorld, which was based around a modified AOL client talking to a modif

Apple's being unintentionally ironic here. Their second attempt at an online service was eWorld, which was based around a modified AOL client talking to a modified AOL server. They took our client software, which looked like this: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CukACmTPP8Q/TxxdPO_B8HI/AAAAAAAADd8/-L2hy4PCvuY/s1600/aol.png http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CukACmTPP8Q/TxxdPO_B8HI/AAAAAAAADd... and, using our existing UI tools, made it look like this: http://www.ilenesmachine.com/eworld/images_eworld/eworldone.jpg http://www.ilenesmachine.com/eworld/images_eworld/eworldone.... We had no idea that was possible. Lesson: You do want your users customizing the interface.. but only the right users.