Mac now a mess according to Mac co-creator Jef Raskin

One of the members of the original Macintosh development team,
Jef Raskin, has been sopping up headlines after he told The Guardian that the "Mac is now a mess."  Claiming that Apple now designs by accretion, he says today's Macintosh is too complicated and that its purpose as a plug-n-play device has been lost in Apple's desire to make it a powerful workstation.  He goes on to attack Apple's premium packaging and design, saying that it does nothing to assuage the fact that there's little difference between a Windows and Macintosh interface these days.  He also laments the loss of Hypercard and the bloating of modern applications.  Sorry, Jef, but some of us want to do something beyond writing "Hello" in 1-bit mousescript on 9-inch monitors.

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