Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1a 12/4/83; site rlgvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!harpo!seismo!rlgvax!guy From: guy@rlgvax.UUCP (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: Apple Mac - (nf) Message-ID: <1700@rlgvax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 10-Feb-84 11:08:27 EST Article-I.D.: rlgvax.1700 Posted: Fri Feb 10 11:08:27 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Feb-84 08:31:40 EST References: <5504@uiucdcs.UUCP> Organization: CCI Office Systems Group, Reston, VA Lines: 19 > Those neatly integrated features make it much harder to bring in > outside packages and one really has the feeling that the top people > at Apple, if you could get real candor, would say "But why would anyone > want something other than the stuff we're putting together?" Well, with the Mac Apple is making more of an effort to enlist outside software companies than they did with the Lisa. Obviously, they want the outside companies to give their products a Mac/Lisa-style user interface (for instance, a WordStar for the Mac/Lisa which showed boldfaced text as ^Bfoobar^B and which made no use of the mouse or the pull-down menus would be too silly for words). Frankly, given a choice between a well-integrated package and one that had more "features" but had a user interface designed for the lowest-common-denominator system, I'd be sorely tempted to choose the former. The integrated user interface is not a low-value frill; it has considerable worth which may outweigh the costs of making it harder to bring in outside packages. Guy Harris {seismo,ihnp4,allegra}!rlgvax!guy