On 10/27/2010 10:19 PM, Chris Barker wrote:
> ...
>
> I don't think that Jan was taking the pi**, merely making an observation.
Nor did I. Nevertheless, he put others down for not knowing the secret code.
Fine with me in most circumstances. But
when those who tout Apple's "intuitive interface" do that, they need to be
called on it.
> My mother seems always to close windows rather than quit;
Exactly, because that's the intuitive thing to do, given the visual clues of
the interface.
> but then she's the one who asks, when told to press Return, "is that the
> crooked arrow?". I spent about an hour with her on iChat yesterday, sharing
> her screen trying to work out what she had done wrong with iTunes to get
> loads of exclamation marks; she has no concept of the filing system on her Mac
Why should she have to, if the OS is truly intuitive and user friendly? Carol
has no concept of what a file system is or
how it works. If I start to talk about that sort of things, she sticks her
fingers in her ears and makes loud,
repetitive noises. Somehow manages fine using her computer for writing, email,
web browsing, etc. Once in a long while,
I have to find something for her, but really almost never.
A. Difficult Moose
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