Re: IBM iAccess

Relatively small quibble:

On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Most Mac installs follow a pattern and are normally simpler by far than those for Windows - this doesn’t fit the pattern and requires that you actually read the instructions - shock - horror - who does that?

There's no reason to bring up Windows. It's completely and utterly
irrelevant to this thread. But you chose to do so, and only to
disparage it.

The fact is, I don't think you're a typical Windows user. I have been
a Unix user and a Windows user, happily in both cases; and I have
tried to be a Mac user, and my experience has been exactly opposite to
yours:

Most Windows installs follow a pattern and are normally simpler by far
than those for Mac.

Maybe you have been particularly unlucky with Windows installs, and I
have been particularly unlucky with Mac installs. For me, the pattern
on Windows is this:

1. Download the installer.
2. Run the installer.
3. Use the installed product.

I don't see how the Mac could be "normally far simpler" than that. I
would imagine that it's designed to be about equally simple.

Lots of people I trust and respect love Macs. I have tried to use my
wife's Mac many times, and all it does is frustrate me.

John Y.