gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu (09/19/90)
Closeview resembles a lot of Apple-supplied application software: It
is intended to solve one problem in a mediocre way, and intended to be
crippleware for all other purposes. By supplying crippleware on
purpose, Apple spawns dozens of companies to fix its mistakes and work
around its limitations.
It's kind of like GM intentionally damaging their automobiles at the
factory, in order to spawn companies to do their recalls & aftermarket
body work.
Last spring I complained that Closeview should be able to function as
a screen inverter; some Apple employees responded with a lame excuse
about not being able to change third-party software written under
contract, etc (Closeview is written by the Berkeley Company that did
"Stepping Out").
I had hoped that Apple would have fixed Closeview by now *sigh*.
Don W. Gillies, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois
1304 W. Springfield, Urbana, Ill 61801
ARPA: gillies@cs.uiuc.edu UUCP: {uunet,harvard}!uiucdcs!gilliesjordan@Morgan.COM (Jordan Hayes) (09/20/90)
Don W. Gillies <gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu> writes:
It's kind of like GM intentionally damaging their automobiles
at the factory, in order to spawn companies to do their recalls
& aftermarket body work.
Unless you want to count the auto security business, and things like
pull-out stereos, and all those glass shops specializing in replacing
windows that were broken on the way to steal a stereo ...
/jordan