Re: member returns list

[Emanuel Berg]

"Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com>
writes:

> You are very ill-informed, you don't know what Alan
> Kay thinks of iPads and iPhones. I can't find the
> exact quote

I just Googled

    Alan Kay iPad iPhone

and found a link [1] with the title

    Computing pioneer Alan Kay calls Apple's iPad user
    interface 'poor'

I'm not surprised he thinks so. That is what I meant
he would grab for the revolver himself if I showed him
in 1969 what his work with Smalltalk eventually
brought to humanity.

You might have seen the second Terminator movie in
which a android is sent back in time to kill the
engineer who did "Skynet", which eventually
enslaved humanity.

But this is in line with your kind of thinking.
Tho they killed the guy in that movie, that didn't
change anything - just as killing Kay in 1969 wouldn't
turn the iThings slaves of today into techno-warriors.

[The reason I don't like those products isn't the
interface in particular, tho that is one reason
I don't use them. With a computer-like interface,
i.e. a shell and a keyboard, they could be used for
good. But most people still wouldn't.]

[1] 
http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/04/03/computing-pioneer-alan-kay-calls-apples-ipad-user-interface-poor

-- 
underground experts united
http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573