Re: OT: What would it take to make AOL impressive to Mac users?
Re: OT: What would it take to make AOL impressive to Mac users?
- Subject: Re: OT: What would it take to make AOL impressive to Mac users?
- From: Andy Lee <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 17:14:43 -0500
On Tuesday, March 26, 2002, at 03:39 PM, AOLDev wrote:
I have an opportunity to influence the business team within AOL
with regards to their Mac OS X client that's coming right around
the corner. Our goal is to create an outstanding product that does
not make Mac user'
s feel like second-class citizens. We also want to create a client
that is better than the Windows client and makes use of the Mac OS
X-specific features.
Isn't the OS X client already out? I was having trouble getting it
from aol.com (broken links), so I thought maybe it wasn't really.
But then I noticed the installer for it is included on an iLamp that
was on display in a store. So I looked around and finally downloaded
it from somewhere (I forget where) and installed it. The Finder
shows the version to be "AOL v5.0".
At 4:19 PM -0500 3/26/02, email@hidden wrote:
GAG* Not to rain on your parade or anything crude like that, but
I've been lurking here for almost a year and I have _NEVER_ seen
anyone with an @aol address! Me thinks you are barking up a wrong
tree.
I don't subscribe to AOL myself, but I have friends and relatives who
do, on Wintel machines. I would love to persuade them all to choose
Macs as their next computer, and this would be much easier if there
were an OS X version of AOL that is not only not "second-class" but
*superior* to earlier versions.
I've only had glimpses of AOL on Wintel, but it looks like the OS X
version is a direct clone. This is probably comfy and familiar to
AOL users, but personally I find the UI ugly and unintuitive. My
*gut* feeling (obviously not based on extensive product experience)
is that it should be overhauled at the highest design level, not just
tweaked at the itty-bitty feature level. I would be delighted if AOL
would launch a makeover project for the client UI.
Given that AOL is a humongous entrenched corporate entity, I'd be
surprised if such a project had a chance in heck of getting off the
ground -- but you did say "all areas are fair game"...
--Andy
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