[OT] Mac/Window duopoly assumptions

Mark Schonewille m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com
Tue Oct 20 14:02:38 EDT 2015


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Op 10/20/2015 om 19:27 schreef Richmond:
> Fairly hacked off to receive and advert for THIS on my Facebook page:
>
> https://www.dashlane.com/en/lp/neverforget-teal?utm_campaign=1841393610&utm_medium=paid_social&utm_source=FBdesktop&nan_pid=1841393610 
>
>
> mainly because when you get to the webpage it:
>
> 1. Assumes that you are running Microsoft Windows,
>
> and, as an after-thought,
>
> 2. Offers a Macintosh version.
>
> Some of us are neither, and resent this kind of 'push' that makes all 
> sorts of
> unwarranted assumptions about what we run on our computers, why we run 
> it,
> and what we do with it.
>
> Where do these people live? In the same stupid, limited world where 
> 90% of
> school teachers and school systems dwell; the place where every square 
> peg
> must be beaten and hammered to fit into a round hole.
>
> I sometimes wonder why LiveCode don't take advantage of that and 
> present themselves as
> the "anti-programmer's programming suite", the "un-code" the 
> "to-h*ll-with-the-command-line-language":
> there should be a lot of uptake.
>
> Richmond.
>
> P.S. I also use my computer to iron my socks.
>
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