Comments on: When Bad Things Happen to Good Products

By: Backlin

Backlin — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 15:27:37 +0000

@Backlight: I remember typing that actually…

I’ll agree with Bouke on the Simcity point. I played Societies a whole 30 minutes before becoming unimpressed.

I found the workflow in iMovie ’08 to be ridiculously unintuitive.

By: Backlight

Backlight — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 14:13:01 +0000

The company I used to work for bought a pallet jack from Circuit City; it was the most high-tech purchase that company ever made.

By: Ryan Rosenberg

Ryan Rosenberg — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:17:57 +0000

Another great article Harry. Entertaining and with good lessons of what to avoid. I sent links on this two two separate people.

By: Harry McCracken

Harry McCracken — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:42:24 +0000

@Jake Good point, Jake. Does seems like Apple did a pretty good job of making both old pros and newbies happy with the ’09 version though…

By: Jake

Jake — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:37:39 +0000

I have to take some issue with the inclusion of iMovie ’08. Yes, people like Pogue who were experienced users of the previous versions were baffled. But for me, every time I’d tried to do something in the previous version (except when I had to, for an article I was editing), I soon said to hell with it. It was confusing and intimidating and just not fun. iMovie ’08, by contrast, was intuitive and straightforward and, well, fun. ’06 might have let serious video editors do more, but ’08 let the average user string together movie clips a lot easier. And really, if you’re making a home movie, is it more important to have frame-accurate control over in and out points, or just to be able to say “okay, this clip first, then this one, then this one”? I always wondered how many new iMovie users ’08 created–all we heard was from disgruntled ’06 users.

By: Bill Snyder

Bill Snyder — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:13:51 +0000

Wow. The DOS-5 video is amazing. I love it. What an artifact. Where on earth did someone find that, I wonder.

By: Bouke Timbermont

Bouke Timbermont — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:45:40 +0000

Sim City Societies: Sim City had always been a BRILLIANT game, time and time again (from the very first version to the SimCity 4 and it’s rush hour expansion) But EA decided it was time to dumb the whole game down to make it more ‘accesable’… reault: Fans of the series (including me) didn’t buy the game, and new users (at which EA targetted the changed concept) didn’t even care because it was kinda boring and easy.

I really hope there comes a SimCity 5 :-( Still playing SimCity 4 Rush Hour here, but since it’s buggy on multi-core systems, I REALLY want an upgrade :’(

By: Aussie_Sheila

Aussie_Sheila — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:20:39 +0000

Shame Windows ME and Vista didn’t make it to the article. Would have loved to hear your thoughts. But thanks for mentioning Hotmail. Actually, I pretty much stopped using it after Microsoft changed it. But same goes to Windows Live Messenger (MSN) – they made so many changes that it because annoying to use and I had to pretty much give it up.