Thursday, July 28, 2005- Learning Lessons from the Mac
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Learning Lessons from the Mac "It's almost like Microsoft is designing [software] for geeks and Apple is designing for real people," said Joe Wilcox, a senior analyst at Jupiter Research. "Microsoft's common man approach is centered on the price [of its software]."
Wilcox said that in terms of functionality, Microsoft's approach to the common man is too complicated and requires a "walk-him-through-it process." The user has to plug in something that launches the wizard. Then the user has to go through six or seven steps to get the device to complete a first-time configuration. "Whereas Apple's common-man approach is you plug it in and it works," said Wilcox.
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- Geeks vs. Artists
- One of the criticisms of the free culture movement in general has been that there are far too many academics and geeks talking about the potential perils of overreaching control over information, and not nearly enough artists. If the artists really believed that this is a threat to culture, the skeptics say, they would act out.
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