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Article #11087Re: Xerox vs Apple; Finder User Interface Ideas wanted
From: Chandra Bajpai
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 1990 14:23
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 1990 14:23
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>>My personal hopes, for rationality and progress, are for Xerox to lose >>against Apple and Apple to lose against HP/Microsoft. The graphical >>user interface is an inspiring invention, but no one should own it, any >>more than you can own the rights to automatic transmissions or the >>metric system. > > Apple has never claimed the GUI as its own; it has claimed the Mac >interface as its own. The two are not the same. > What is it that consitutes the Mac User Interface vs. say NeXT Step or OSF/Motif? Trash cans? Disk icons? Double clicking and Dragging? All these exist in other User Interfaces in one form or another. Maybe it's the way you perform a particular action that Apple is claiming is the Mac User Interface. Exactly what is Apple claiming? Thinking along....If you could create a new User Interface for Finder what would you change or add? What are the complaints about Finder's interface? Ejecting disks by dragging disks into trash cans are not intutive(sp?)! -Chandra Bajpai topgun@brandeis.cs.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!yale!mintaka!chaos.cs.brandeis.edu!topgun From: topgun@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Chandra Bajpai) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Xerox vs Apple; Finder User Interface Ideas wanted Message-ID: <1990Mar26.142308.6947@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu> Date: 26 Mar 90 14:23:08 GMT References: <10149@wpi.wpi.edu> <1990Mar24.192730.20445@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu> <2746@hudson.acc.virginia.edu> <2545@milton.acs.washington.edu> Organization: Brandeis University Computer Science Dept Lines: 21