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Pretty standard "Apple fanbois are pathetic" trolling. Here's all you need: "Apple's products and policies have always been biased toward childish, whiny, and

Pretty standard "Apple fanbois are pathetic" trolling. Here's all you need: "Apple's products and policies have always been biased toward childish, whiny, and self-centered behavior, and now the company’s stakeholders are mirroring that." "As the PC proved popular with consumers and businesses, it was actually Microsoft that sought to develop a computer-literate user capable of issuing the commands that make a computer operate, while Apple worked toward the simplified world of icons, metaphors, and clicking. Users didn't know how any of it worked; Steve just made it so." User friendliness is suddenly a bad thing? Give me a break.

thismat 17y ago
"User friendliness is suddenly a bad thing? Give me a break." You have to be a little careful with statements like that, user experiences are highly subjective, and different people find different processes more appealing. I personally have no desire to deal with Apple's support for my MBP, or going to a packed apple store in my spare time (if this is part of the friendliness thing you were referring to, if not, my misunderstanding), but I can easily get my Dell serviced on site while I'm at work at no cost to me, and within 2 days of placing a service ticket. If it's less about business friendliness and more about UI design and user experience, that's also highly subjective, I've met people who think at least one platform "just feels right" to them. Bottom line, with all the choices we have available today, why is it even debated with such rigor anymore? Choose what feels good to YOU.
- stevejohnson 17y ago
  I totally agree with you. I was going after the author's pooh-pooh attitude toward Apple's design philosophy, not claiming to know of some mythical objective standard of user friendliness.
  - thismat 17y ago
    I was kind of wondering, I hope my comment wasn't taken as a criticism, that's why I said that we have to be careful with phrases like that, because I often see them either misinterpreted (like I did) or actually used as bait. I do agree, the article is totally useless reminds me of the "I don't hate x, I use x, but here's why I hate x" type of articles.

thismat 17y ago

"User friendliness is suddenly a bad thing? Give me a break." You have to be a little careful with statements like that, user experiences are highly subjective, and different people find different processes more appealing. I personally have no desire to deal with Apple's support for my MBP, or going to a packed apple store in my spare time (if this is part of the friendliness thing you were referring to, if not, my misunderstanding), but I can easily get my Dell serviced on site while I'm at work at no cost to me, and within 2 days of placing a service ticket. If it's less about business friendliness and more about UI design and user experience, that's also highly subjective, I've met people who think at least one platform "just feels right" to them. Bottom line, with all the choices we have available today, why is it even debated with such rigor anymore? Choose what feels good to YOU.

stevejohnson 17y ago
I totally agree with you. I was going after the author's pooh-pooh attitude toward Apple's design philosophy, not claiming to know of some mythical objective standard of user friendliness.
- thismat 17y ago
  I was kind of wondering, I hope my comment wasn't taken as a criticism, that's why I said that we have to be careful with phrases like that, because I often see them either misinterpreted (like I did) or actually used as bait. I do agree, the article is totally useless reminds me of the "I don't hate x, I use x, but here's why I hate x" type of articles.