CompuServe Messages

No, the Mac environment is NOT user friendly. It is *NOVICE* friendly. It makes it very easy to do the simple things. Unfortunately, it makes it hard, if not impossible, to do some of the more powerful things computers are capable of doing. Also, the Mac environment has nothing to do with how friendly or hostile a particular program is on the Mac. It is just as easy to write a very hostile and hard to use program on the Mac as it is on any other machine. What Apple did which most other companies have NOT done was write up a document which said that programs for the Mac should be written with a user interface of a specific type, using these basic features, and looking like every other Mac application. *That* is the difference. Sure, they supplied a standard file requester, and that's about the ONLY thing they supplied which the Amiga has not. And more and more applications nowadays *bypass* or change the standard file requester, since it just plain doesn't do what is needed. I think what we need here on the Amiga is not a change to the OS, but rather the establishment of standard guidelines on user interface writing. –>Steve Bennett