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Philips Pronto Classic Forum - View Post
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Topic: | Official software announcement This thread has 21 replies. Displaying posts 16 through 22. |
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OP | Post 16 made on Sunday December 27, 1998 at 14:44 |
The real point is nobody has to 'try' to sell Prontos. They have sold themselves, without even the details on the software being released until recently. I don't buy your apple interface similiaries either. Why waste time on a MAC interface, when as some-one else mentioned, you can get a PC emulator for your MAC anyways. I also doubt a significant fraction of prospective Pronto buyers are into Apple. Nothing more than MAC fanaticism.
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OP | Post 17 made on Monday December 28, 1998 at 03:58 |
Robin:
While I do not fully agree with your generalizations, as a Mac person myself, I support your request for a Mac version.
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OP | Post 18 made on Tuesday December 29, 1998 at 11:56 |
a helpful person... Historic Forum Post |
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Ah, they used guitar and drums to make a hit single... they were, very obviously, "heavily influenced" by the Beatles...
Come now Robin, credit where credit's due. If I were responsible for designing the UI for Pronto, I'd probably be mildly offended by your comments... Sometimes the hardest thing is to design something that's 'obvious' and 'intuitive' to everyone.
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OP | Post 19 made on Tuesday December 29, 1998 at 21:44 |
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Robin, 1) The home button looks like a house (did the software writters for hypercard design the first houses?) 2) Most of the world's computer users use IBM's or IBM compatible computers. (that's why there is currently no mac software!) 3) The reason fornumber 2 is apple's marketing department's fault. They blew it in the mac's infancy by noy allowing other computure makers and software writters to "clone" the mac interface (OS); therefore, mac's dwindled while IBM's and windows rocked to their current throne over the world's computer market.
You shouldn't slam Philip's marketing group when they have a new hotseller; especially when your fighting for apple (whose sales and marketing division wreckerd the company)
The reason I don't have a MAC is due to there true lack of compatability, functionality, and flexability. Yes, the interface is a breeze to use, but onb the other hand there is barely any software (comparativly speaking), the issue of compatability with third-party hardware arrises often (as with Pronto), and to be down right honest the mac can't do in a lifetime half of what my 400 Mhz Pentium II can do in a heatbeat (not just because of speed, sometimes things just can't be customized or tweaked on a mac)!!!
PS (sorry for the broad generalizations)
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OP | Post 20 made on Wednesday December 30, 1998 at 05:50 |
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Will Philips release a software version for my C64? hehe, just kidding...
I think a mac's able to emulate windows, ain't it?
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OP | Post 21 made on Friday January 1, 1999 at 15:43 |
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PS most of the software for macs was designed for children and school apps.
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OP | Post 22 made on Saturday January 2, 1999 at 00:43 |
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The guy that wrote much of ProntoEdit actually owns several C64 machines, though I think it's mostly for nostalgic reasons :-)...
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