[PD] PD usability

[Pall Thayer]

PD is just perfect as it is. It'll run on any machine, it's open-ended 
and in constant development and it's free. What more could you ask for? 
Say, um... How's cycling74 doing on that MacOSX port? Oh, sorry to hear 
it. What about that Windows port they've been talking about for who 
knows how long? A couple of years ago I participated in an exhibition in 
Denmark with some Max stuff on 5 computers, they had to go to Sweden to 
find rental Macs. Wish I had known about PD then (actually it was a guy 
at that show that told me about PD).

If someone doesn't think PD is suitable for whatever they're trying to 
do, they're probably just trying to do the wrong thing, hahaha. If 
they'd rather shell out a pile of money for a copy of Max so that they 
can reboot their Mac out of sweet sweet OS X and into dull defunct OS 9, 
let 'em.

Pall


On Mi›vikudagur, febrúar 12, 2003, at 08:35 , Marc Lavallée wrote:

> Le mer 12/02/2003 à 15:23, Yves Degoyon a écrit :
>
>> i can't see why you'd want to install PD for these people,
>> maybe you should make clickable standalones ???
>> ( we can with pd as is really )
>
> That's an idea. Painful but very useful.
>
>> i also meant : the programmers often think users
>> are dumb and can't manage to compile a program,
>> that's what's it's all about, i think they should learn,
>> otherwise, they'll be addicted to big gurus out there.
>
> And I meant: the users like to think they are dumb. The only thing we
> can do is to confort them in their belief and slowly make them realize
> they're not so dumb after all. PD needs a marketing strategy, something
> like "Think <whatever>". What about a clickable installer, integration
> of many externals, good documentation and tutorials? Thats's what users
> are expecting, nothing less. No need for big gurus for this to happen.
>
> --
> Marc
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