Ah. Oh. Apple.
Oh. Oh. Ah.
Love you, sweetheart.
Forever yours,
John
PS. Still crazy for your elegant beige on the outside. Wow, just wow!someone should write a markov chain daringfireball bot. just need a whole bunch of positive adjectives and a list of apple products.
oh, good grief. has this guy really been getting away with this for what, well over a decade now?
The Xerox Star did that before Apple. Interestingly enough, it had hardware keys for it [0] - no mnemonics required.
Raskin (Macintosh team) ended up really liking dedicated keys (cf. the Canon Cat and his book) after all.
I would have agreed a few months ago; but as someone who is slowly forcing himself to become a touch typist because I was getting irritated at how much my hands moved over the keyboard when there was no need for them to, I prefer chording keystrokes :)
[0]: http://www.digibarn.com/friends/curbow/star/keyboard/keyboar...
Why are HNers so dismissive of sharp, good writers like Gruber and very well thought out designs like the ones covered in this article?
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I'm confused, is this a circlejerk joke or is he actually serious?
> The second aspect of the original Mac that stands out today as Apple-like is putting just enough whimsy into the experience. Most famously, the smiling Mac you saw as the system booted. Had anyone prior even considered a smiling computer?
Come on, man. Computing has been full of whimsy from the beginning. To imply that Apple has some kind of monopoly on cute jokes is absurd.