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: Matthew Sinclair-Day <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 20:27:08 -0500
On Tuesday, March 26, 2002, at 07:25 PM, AOLDev <email@hidden> wrote:
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 18:19:54 -0500
Subject: Re: OT: What would it take to make AOL impressive to Mac
users?
Cc: email@hidden
To: Andy Lee <email@hidden>
From: AOLDev <email@hidden>
Thanks for your comments everyone. The good news is that there's a
major corporate shift at the highest of levels to support the Mac. AOL
is a fast-moving company despite what you might hear in the media about
us merging into a huge media giant. Our HR department does a good job
of ensuring that our "internet corporate culture" doesn't get impacted
by the Time-Warner corporate culture.
What you see now with the Mac OS X beta is nothing compared with what
you'll see in a few months. This business with the Mac client being
behind and stuck at version 5.0 is over. Wouldn't it be cool to have
iDisk-like access to your free AOL FTP account? Wouldn't it be cool to
have an "aqualike animated branding bar on sign-on, like Apple has on
the OS X setup/registration screens? How about some sort of Quicktime
streaming media integration? I'm not at liberty to discuss
specifics at
present, but let's just say that the complete UI is getting overhauled
for the better. Thanks to the success of Steve Jobs and the iMac and
the ease of OS X app development, you're going to see a lot more
emphasis on AOL Mac development from now on.
Thanks also to those mentioning other places to post - - I'll try those
areas as well.
I don't have a preference one way or another about what features
should be put into an AOL client, simply because I do not use AOL.
That said, I would say, simply make it look and feel like an OS X
native application. Adopt the UI conventions in X and keep the
interface clean and intuitive, take advantage of API's and services
on this operating system (e.g. keychain, spelling services, Apple
Help, Quicktime, etc.), make it easy to install and uninstall (e.g.
use bundles to store the application resources), and make sure it
doesn't suck up CPU cycles.
Regards,
Matt Sinclair
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