Semantics

Post #217,062 by drewk 8/2/05 1:43:45 PM Reply	Semantics True, that new mouse may work better -- and certainly has more cool factor -- than a typical multi-button mouse. True also that the embedded ball is better than a scroll wheel. But to say that people "don't really want buttons at all" is playing word games. No one who asked for a four-button mouse would have been satisfied if you gave them a four-button mouse with all of them mapped to the same action. When people asked for more buttons of course they really wanted a "richer way of expressing [their] intentions." And Apple -- and Apple defenders -- spent all those years saying, "You don't really need them. And if you do you can always buy a multi-button mouse from someone else." Are we really supposed to believe that for all those years Apple was saying, "You don't really need more buttons," that they were confused? That they thought people just wanted more buttons that didn't do anything? === Purveyor of Doc Hope's [link\|http://DocHope.com\|fresh-baked dog biscuits and pet treats]. [link\|http://DocHope.com\|http://DocHope.com]
Post #217,073 by tuberculosis 8/2/05 2:09:32 PM Reply	Point = missed My point is that a typical computer company (MS, Dell, whatever) would have simply bolted a couple more buttons on and thrown it out there. They want more buttons, add more buttons. That would be easy and require no thought. It would also be typical. What pleases me is that Apple is not typical, they THINK SHIT THROUGH (sometimes). This is one of those things. "Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect" --Mark Twain "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein "This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." --George W. Bush
Post #217,074 by pwhysall 8/2/05 2:09:39 PM Reply	People don't want features. Well, normal people don't. Geeks like us want features. People want to do things. People don't want, for example, Bluetooth and iSync. They want to use the same phone numbers and addresses on their mobile that they have on their computer. BT & iSync is just one solution. Sure, it's a good one, but it's just a feature. The "keep your phone & pooter in sync automatically" thing is what they want. I don't want a five-button mouse with a tilt wheel. (I have one; Wireless Intellimouse Explorer 2.0). I want to zoom through pages of webarnet rubbish. I want to scroll around my images. Etc. At the moment, the WIE2 is a very good means to an end, but that's what it is. Point-labouring over. Peter [link\|http://www.ubuntulinux.org\|Ubuntu Linux] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Home] Use P2P for legitimate purposes!

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