On 3/26/2011 2:16 PM, bj wrote:
> From: "Just Murray"<krismurray@gmail.com>
> Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2011 1:30 PM
> To:<iPad@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: Re: [iPad] More sync issues
>
>>
>> as a mac person, i find all this stuff trivial at best, most of it i find
>> to be the most intuitive software i have ever used (i have used windows
>> thrice and found it completely unintuitive). i cannot fathom how a person
>> who has used computers for ten years or more cannot find this as simple as
>> i do.
>>
>> see how reasy that was lol
>> ~KM
>> --
>
> My one (required) experience with Mac was that it was not all that
> intuitive. I had a rented (original) Mac w/ no instructions or anything,
> just the (Mac-only) s/w I needed to use for a particular course --& figure
> out how to install to start with! I'd been using personal computers for 15
> years at the time, under several different architectures& operating
> systems (this was in the early 90's) but that "intuitive" interface was hard
> to figure out.
[snip]
No computer is intuitive -- just place one in front of a 60 year old who
has never used one and see how intuitive either a Windows machine or a
Mac is.
People who say Macs are intuitive have "grown up" with them and learned
all their idiosyncracies a little at a time, through the many iterations
of the operating system and the various models along the way.
The same is true for people who say PCs are intuitive.
The big difference is that Macs are easier for some people to get their
heads around while PCs are easier for others to get their heads around.
If you're lucky enough to have started on the one which works more the
way your brain does, then you're all set and it seems simple.
But I hate it when someone says something is "intuitive" -- very little
in life except breathing in and out and peeing/pooping when necessary
and sleeping some of the time are intuitive. Everything else is learned
along the way and for someone to say something is intuitive while
someone else is having problems with that very same thing adds nothing
of any value to the conversation other than to boost someone's ego while
trying to make someone else feel badly that they just don't "get it."
--
David H. Bailey
dhbailey@davidbaileymusicstudio.com
