Mac are too simple Ping!
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In case others don’t know...
Internet publication
TidBITS has been published weekly since April 16, 1990, which makes it one of the longest running Internet publications. TidBITS is published by Adam C. Engst, author of a number of computer books, including four editions of Internet Starter Kit for Macintosh, Eudora for Windows & Macintosh Visual Quickstart Guide, and five editions of iPhoto for Mac OS X: Visual QuickStart Guide.
Electronic books
TidBITS also publishes a series of electronic books in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format that cover issues related to Mac OS X and the digital lifestyle. The “Take Control” series first appeared in October 2003 with the publication of Take Control of Upgrading to Panther which was issued at the same moment as the official launch of Mac OS X version 10.3 “Panther”.
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And I’ve subscribed to their mailing list almost from the beginning. And I remember getting Adam Engst’s “Internet Starter Kit for Macintosh” when it wasn’t necessarily so easy getting on the Internet... :-)
I remember the one for Eudora, too. That was a favorite e-mail program of mine for a very long time. And then, I’ve got a series of the “Take Control” e-books put out by Adam Engst, too.
Practically all of what he has written there is very true. I had to laugh at the characterization of “teenagers” in the past and then “now”... That was right, in the past, if you wanted a computer fixed or tweaked or help with it — yeah..., “get a teenager”. But, nowadays, the teenagers have to get help from the older folks... LOL...
Heck, when I was a teenager, I was programming those new-fangled things in Base 2, with no monitor and only red lights for read-outs for Base 2 indications of on/off and paper tape to save the programming. I had to program everything, down to even telling it how to multiply and divide... Assembly language... ummm..., *I was the assembler*... LOL...
Assembly language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assembly_language
And so, these youngsters are getting quite computer illiterate these days. And a good User Interface is great (I believe in it), but it has probably contributed to the “dumbing down” of the average computer user, to the point where you get those kinds of “tech support” calls, as was indicated in that article.
I like the Mac OS X, because it can be as simple as you want — and then — as complex as you want, both at the same time and accommodating both kinds of people. That’s great. But, alas, there is a large group out there that have absolutely no clue as to what is going on... :-)
I had my computer read this to me, and I have to say, this is siejva eap39m ,app.