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In article <34192@apple.Apple.COM> bnfb@Apple.COM (Bjorn Freeman-Benson) writes:
>Ah, so according to Jon, Macs are now like IBMs: you must read the
><rude word> manual to learn how to use it.  Come on people, this is
>the Mac, we don't read manuals.  We shouldn't have to read manuals.
>And if even if this fellow had read the manual, it would have taken
>more than two minutes to find that little detail about Easy Access.
>
>	    "Macintosh" implies "No manuals!"
>		Bjorn N. Freeman-Benson


This and a mini-discussion of Apple's fondness for "desktop everything,"
stirs up a little peeve I have with Apple's advertising.

I recently got the "Apple D*top Media" video.  My thought after seeing
it was, "so what."  Are we supposed to think that you can't use one of
those (shudder) IBM thingies to scan in a sketch, do some CAD, and make
some overheads?  Come on, get realistic!  I don't recall one of the
technologies featured in the video that couldn't be done on a PC.  Why
does Apple advertise like this?  They should emphasize what makes the
Macintosh different.

For that, see the above quote.

So, come on Apple.  Cut the "desktop" garbage and get to the real reason
people use Macs -- power that's easy to use.

Thanks for letting me sound off.

-- 
Geoff Allen - WINCO Computer Process Engineering
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...ucdavis!egg-id!pmafire!geoff  |  so of course these are my own views.