Why indeed? But I have to explain to her how to look for a file that she has
saved somewhere. The somewhere is a mystery purely because the fact that there
is a somewhere is a mystery -- if that's not too obscure a sentence :-)
Chris
On 28 Oct 2010, at 10:37, Moose wrote:
>
> 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.
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