Re: Scripting Additions: Embracing the Horror of Unix
Re: Scripting Additions: Embracing the Horror of Unix
- Subject: Re: Scripting Additions: Embracing the Horror of Unix
- From: "Marc K. Myers" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 14:58:49 -0500
- Organization: [very little]
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To: email@hidden (AS users)
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Subject: Re: Scripting Additions: Embracing the Horror of Unix
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From: email@hidden (Michael Sullivan)
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Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 13:42:17 -0500
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Organization: Society for the Incurably Pompous
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Macs are for geeks -- they are not for the "rest of us" unless that
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means people who won't put with an inappropriate system just because
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it's popular. Alas that's a small number of folk.
I couldn't disagree more. The millions of iMac and colorful iBook sales
that kept Apple afloat weren't being made to professional video editors,
web publishers, and QXP users. They were sold to people who wanted a
more human-oriented alternative to the well-know horrors of Windows.
You can probably draw a line between tower buyers who are "us" and the
purchasers of all the other Apple machines who are "the rest of us".
I've been playing with computers since 1964 and command lines and
assembly language are not mysteries to me, but my 83-year-old mother
uses her iMac and my 18-year-old daughter uses her iBook because the
Apple human interface standards make them work like real-world objects do.
I don't know what OS X is doing for people who just want a machine
that's easy to use and is reliable. What I do know is that most of what
I see in MacWorld and on various internet forums is a lot of references
to UNIX command lines and utility commands. I think that if you have to
know UNIX to make your Mac do what you want it to do there is something
very wrong. If you have to know UNIX to write a simple AppleScript then
AppleScript will be the province of IT professionals and not what it was
designed to be. The iMac and iBook folks aren't going to learn it and
they're not going to pay us to write scripts and maintain their systems.
They're going to save time, money, and hassle by buying cheap Windows
machine like 95% of the world already does.
Marc K. Myers <email@hidden>
http://AppleScriptsToGo.com
4020 W.220th St.
Fairview Park, OH 44126
(440) 331-1074
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