[OSX-Users] Re: what we've been missing !

[Steve Harris]

I think it's related to this effect: http://www.paulgraham.com/gh.html

about half way down, but the rest of the article is worth reading: "A  
similar problem explains why American cars are so ugly. I call it the  
design paradox. You might think that you could make your products  
beautiful just by hiring a great designer to design them. But if you  
yourself don't have good taste, how are you going to recognize a good  
designer? By definition you can't tell from his portfolio. And you  
can't go by the awards he's won or the jobs he's had, because in  
design, as in most fields, those tend to be driven by fashion and  
schmoozing, with actual ability a distant third. There's no way around  
it: you can't manage a process intended to produce beautiful things  
without knowing what beautiful is. American cars are ugly because  
American car companies are run by people with bad taste."

I think that's exactly it, MS execs can't tell the difference between  
that youtube train wreck, and the Reality Distortion Field, and I  
honestly believe that they think Windows 7's UI is as good as OS X.

- Steve

On 26 Sep 2009, at 13:59, Hugh Glaser wrote:

> Actually you will be pleased to hear that I didn't waste the full 6:14
> I did watch quite a bit because I couldn't believe it wasn't a spoof.
> So I guess the amusement was worth most of the time I did spend.
>
> On 26/09/2009 13:19, "Philip Boulain" <prb at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> Hugh Glaser wrote:
>>> On 25/09/2009 13:47, "Les Carr" <lac at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cX4t5-YpHQ
>>> Er.
>>> I just wasted 6:14 minutes of my life.
>>
>> Thanks for saving 6:04 of mine. ;)
>>
>> (I prefer this way around to when Microsoft marketing were  
>> competent and
>> their system developers weren't.)
>
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