Re: [NTLK] The "iMoleskine" ?

Agreed-
 its just that I'm having a bit of trouble with some of the tech jargon and
connection concepts discussed here... Prob. Why the easier interface goes
over better... But maybe I'm in the minority.

On 5/20/08 12:54 PM, "Martin Joseph" <NT@stillnewt.org> wrote:

>
> On May 20, 2008, at 7:36 AM, Cantley, Bryan wrote:
>> A different point of view..
>> I am reminded by reading all these posts that Apple will probably
>> not make
>> a device that only feeds us geeky few.... They would only do it for
>> the
>> masses. So all this technical discussion of the underpinnings of
>> the OS,
>> while a great read, is probably lost on the consumer component-
>> which is
>> clearly, IMO, the way in which Apple [no computer] Inc. is moving.
>>
>> I wonder if there might be some discussion on the less technical
>> and the
>> more UI condition?
>>
>> Just a thought :)
>>
>
> Funny, I thought that was the UI discussion! Reread Joel's posts
> regarding the stagnation of the Mac OS GUI, and you will discover
> several new ideas for improving things. Actually, I have to say
> there is a LOT of low hanging fruit in this category.
>
> One thought that has occurred to me is that when users receive email
> bounce messages they usually don't understand them, because they
> can't hash through the meaningless portion to get to the part that
> has meaning. It would be spiffy of the mail program identified and
> hashed these messages and did something useful with them...
>
> For example, you have an old defunct email address in your address
> book. The messages you send to it bounce with a "user unknown". The
> mail program could easily identify that address and then next time it
> could tell you "That address appears to be bad". It could even look
> in the address book for additional address book entries for the email
> address of that user. I see this kind of issue all the time with
> users I support.
>
> Just a thought,
> Marty
>
> PS It all comes down to the computer helping the user along.
>
>
>
>
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