"Now there is little difference, except packaging, between a Mac and a Windows machine. Not no difference, but at home we have β along with six Macs (one for everybody plus my travelling iBook) β three PCs and one Linux box, and I can move from one to the other without having to think about it much. What used to be a night-and-day difference in usability has become a small increment in Apple's favor (or favour for you Brits)."
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Jef Raskin
Jef Raskin (9 March 1943 β 26 February 2005) was an expert in human-computer interaction who began the Macintosh project for Apple Computer.
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