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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: A word in defense of Apple.
Message-ID: <6943@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 9 Apr 89 07:37:36 GMT
References: <8004@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney)
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Organization: Eclectic Software, San Francisco
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In article <8004@boulder.Colorado.EDU> pratt@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Jonathan
Pratt) writes:
>I hope I'm speaking for a silent majority when I assert that some of the
>recent Apple bashing on the net has gone beyond constructive criticism.

Do you have sufficient confidence in your position that you are willing
to live up to the two neccessities for constructive criticism: (1) naming
your targets and (2) making specific points?  If not, how about shutting
your cake-hole?  The net can do without cowards who snipe at unnamed-but-
you-know-who-I'm-talking-about targets from ivory towers.  Just my opinion.

>In fact I think the posters from Apple are to be commended for keeping
>their cool in the face of such unnecessary abuse.  It seems to me that
>a few self-proclaimed experts are guilty of spouting the same sort of
>dogmatism they object to in Apple's interface guidelines, only without
>the benefit of sufficient forethought.  Just my opinion.

Who has objected to Apple's interface guidelines?  I think they're fine.
I've praised them right, left, up, down, and sideways.  I've said they're
so good Apple ought to consider following them itself.  I have not seen
anyone here objecting to them, and I have to wonder what the fuck you're
talking about, if anything.
-- 
Tim Maroney, Consultant, Eclectic Software, sun!hoptoad!tim
"Philosophy is the talk on a cereal box
 Religion is the smile on a dog" -- Edie Brickell, "What I Am"