Jef Raskin On The Mac 539
der Kopf writes "Jeff Raskin, one of the creators of the Macintosh and inventor of the click-and-drag interface, states in an interview for the British newspaper The Guardian that "the Mac is now a mess. A third party manual (Pogue's The Missing Manual) is nearly 1,000 pages, and far from complete. Apple now does development by accretion, and there is only a little difference between using a Mac and a Windows machine."" While I think Raskin has some good points, I think there's a far cry between the Mac & XP.
Not jaded at all (Score:5, Funny)
If you are attacked by one of these creatures, your best course of action is to appease it with a lollipop and a Cherry iMac running Mac OS 9. Ignore the sobbing that may result, as it is only an opening for renewed attack.
In case anyone's interested, Wikipedia [wikipedia.org] knows who Jef Raskin is.
Re:Anti-MS jabs (Score:5, Funny)
Ripping off goes both ways (Score:5, Funny)
The difference (Score:5, Funny)
Agreed, OS X has a usable shell.
Seems like people want a mess... (Score:5, Funny)
Lack of Content (Score:4, Funny)
The result is pretty much nothing but `Jef Raskin is a grumpy old man'.
Re:What i like about XP (Score:4, Funny)
Re:...but Windows copied Mac, right? (Score:1, Funny)
Is he accounting for the fact that a fair amount of the similarity is due to Microsoft incorporating elements of the innovative Mac interface(s) into Windows?
Naaah. He's talking about the features they both stole* from Xerox.
*OK, so no one stole anything from Xerox. You would have to be a total idiot to steal from Xerox. All you have to do is be at the right place at the right time and Xerox will give you stuff. No theft there.
Re:The difference is (Score:4, Funny)
How much more 'good old days' can he spread? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Not jaded at all (Score:5, Funny)
Well DUH! (Score:3, Funny)
especially since one is an operating system and one isn't.