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From: cory@gloom.UUCP (Cory Kempf)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc,comp.sys.next,comp.sys.mac,comp.cog-eng
Subject: Re: replacing the desktop metaphor (Why any metaphor?)
Keywords: desktop metaphor, graphical interfaces, computing environments
Message-ID: <267@gloom.UUCP>
Date: 28 Dec 88 15:30:41 GMT
References: <850@mtfmi.att.com> <673@cogsci.ucsd.EDU> <1489@umbc3.UMD.EDU> <10746@s.ms.uky.edu>
Reply-To: cory@gloom.UUCP (Cory Kempf)
Organization: Alloy Computer Products, Framingham Mass.
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>In article <1489@umbc3.UMD.EDU> cs374326@umbc3.UMD.EDU (Peter Johansson) writes:
>How much research has actually gone into discovering what Joe Schmoe,
>small and medium sized business owner, wants on his desk?  Does he want
>a gas-plasma-wall-hanging-display unit and an infra-red-input-device?
>I find it very interesting that most of the messages here from developers
>and programmers, and there is NIL in the way of input from the end user.

Well...
while I was in school, I worked part time as a Apple sales type... I
sold a lot of people on the Mac.  Why?  because it is easy to learn
how to use the beaste.  

Also, nobody that I have introduced to the mac has ever (willingly)
gone back to the pc... (well, I do know ONE person who prefers the
pc... but then, his dad has worked for Big Blue for ever, and he was
pretty wierd too -- (Hi Shelly Blumstein!)).

Looking at Apple's ever increasing portion of the market v IBM, I'ld
say that this was about the best research that your going to get.
It's pretty conclusive... also, the people who are buying IBMs &
clones have either not used a Mac or are constrained by price.

+C

-- 
Cory ( "...Love is like Oxygen..." ) Kempf
UUCP: encore.com!gloom!cory
	"...it's a mistake in the making."	-KT