IN YOUR JANUARY '96 Letters (page 13), Greg Brenneman accuses Mac users of being arrogant, while showing his own arrogance. Where he gets the idea that Mac users can't use any program that doesn't have mouse control is beyond me. I happen to have years of PC experience and much experience with mainframes, and I have absolutely no trouble operating these systems.
To prefer an intuitive interface does not make one arrogant; it makes one smart. Why don't VCR manufacturers still make you manually tune in each channel? Why have they eliminated the arbitrary, convoluted systems formerly required for programming? Would you buy a VCR that made you do all that? Would you scoff at someone who did?
Bill Mayo
via the Internet
IT'S BEEN MY experience that it's DOS/Windows users, ones who have never spent any appreciable time on a Mac, who are the arrogant ones.
Jerry Tims
jerryt1072@aol.com
A BIG BRONX CHEER to Greg Brenneman. I'm stuck using a DOS machine at work, but when I come home, my faithful Macintosh is here waiting and I can actually get some work done without having to remember arcane commands.
The Mac is the best computer available. Why should I settle for anything less?
Darleen Michael-Baker
baker@wave.sheridan.wy.us
GREG BRENNEMAN'S letter was way off the mark. He assumes, now that Apple is allowing clones, that Mac users will end up with the same compatibility problems that have plagued the PC platform. But that isn't going to happen.
A license to clone from Apple comes with heavy restrictions, forcing the clone vendor to adopt many of the standards Apple has developed. If it doesn't adopt the standards, its license is revoked.
The computer industry has learned from its mistakes. Companies are continually joining together to establish standards so as to avoid the incompatibility problems that have cropped up in the past.
