Re: Cocoa et al as HCI usability problem
Re: Cocoa et al as HCI usability problem
- Subject: Re: Cocoa et al as HCI usability problem
- From: "Hamish Allan" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 18:23:21 +0100
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 5:02 PM, Andy Lee <email@hidden> wrote:
> I think we have a disconnect as to what you meant by "lowering the barriers"
> -- hence my reference to that particular phrase.
I'd like to point out that the "barrier" to which my post referred to
was that of *commitment* to the Cocoa design philosophy, and the
specific side-effect I didn't mind was gentle growth of the platform:
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 9:04 PM, Hamish Allan <email@hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 6:03 AM, Peter Duniho <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> And as long as you guys keep insisting that there's nothing wrong with the
>> environment, and that people "just need to get used to it" and "then they'll
>> love it", you're not going to get the kind of developer excitement needed to
>> ensure the kind of developer support required to get the Mac really into the
>> mainstream. At a minimum, market growth is going to happen a LOT more
>> slowly than it could otherwise.
>
> I don't see that as a particularly bad thing. I don't want to see my
> platform of choice suddenly awash with apps written by people who
> don't want to take the time to understand the whole picture. I'm
> pretty sure such apps would be less likely to conform to the HIG, and
> less likely to have been properly profiled for performance.
I guess the documentation could arguably be made better by continually
repeating the mantra that the conceptual documents need to be read and
understood; but, isn't that what this mailing list is for? ;)
Hamish
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