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From: jk3t+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jonathan King)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: IBM did it first
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Date: 9 May 88 16:50:34 GMT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon
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In article <4541@super.upenn.edu> hodas@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Josh Hodas)
writes:

*I think that AppleUs actions in this respect go somewhat deeper than a rather
*shallow attempt to make the user by only their printer. Apple has always been
*very concerned with maintaining control of the apparent quality of the Mac
and*has tried to avoid supporting any feature that could be misused to make the
*machine look bad.  For instance, when you will notice that they refuse to
*release anything like the Kolor cdev for the Mac II.  My understanding is
that*they are afraid that people will pick ugly, amateurish, and garrish color
*combinations that will make the Mac II look bad to others.  I suspect that
*if they do ever release such a cdev it will have only hard-wired sets of
colors.

I believe that the points about protecting the Mac's carefully designed screen
displays used to be true, but I would like to point out that Apple has recently
been running ads in InfoWorld that triumphantly point out that the Mac II
can now be a Very Serious Business Machine.  The accompanying screen
shots look like something out of PC hell.  I mean we're talking *really*
kandy-Kolored here:  deep purple desktop, fru-fru fuscia scroll bars--the
works.
At first I thought that Apple's ad agency had gone insane, but then I realized
that this is exactly what Very Serious Business Machines look like when
they are running, say, Windows 2.03.  From a distance, it would be
tough to tell the difference.

It would be really sad, with all the possible intelligent uses of color, for
the
Macintosh to borrow the look and pretty pink furry feel of some PCs just
to sell some more boxes, but I can't thinkof any other reason for Apple
to run ads with kandy-kolored screens.

jking
jk3t@andew.cmu.edu