[GuillaumeB]

I have listened to like 4 or 5 podcasts about last Tuesday event and each time they refer to iWeb they call it the noob software for grandma...Although i understand this point of view i just wish they avoid general statement.

I mean seriously who has not been tired of tweaking PHP lines? of hacking JavaScripts? of developing Ajax websites? of setting file permissions to make your Wordpress plugins finally work? of creating databases to add a new feature to your weblog? of modyfing your .htaccess file? of playing around with your CSS all day long to figure out what themes you really want to use?

Well me!! and I'm sure i am not the only one. After wasting 4 years of my life on webdev stuff, believe it or not but i moved to .Mac + iWeb. I mean OK at first glance it does not look like a very advanced editor and you can't really play around with the HTML (unless you start browsing the Library files I guess) but man, it just works the way it should !!!

Just stop calling easy-to-use apps "apps for noobs" Some people actually might prefer simplicity and it does not mean they do not understand what's going on below the application . This is quite similar to peopl who think that Mac users and smart enough to know what's going on in their computer.

In a couple months people will say that Numbers is a noob-app because users don't have to enter a formula... they'll forget that Excel has been around for decade before...

well, I just felt like it had to be said.

[MacosNerd]

You know, I've not heard iweb called that, and even if they did, who cares. If it works for you, great. I know a lot of people who are not noobs but prefer using iweb over other apps.

I use it myself for some small websites I create.

[analogika]

It's the same logic that says that Macs are toys, and Mac users must be kind of simple-minded because grandmas can use the machines.

I love my Mac because I'm ****ING TIRED OF FUTZING AROUND. I've been around computers for the better part of twenty years, and I knew the old OS 9 inside and out. I know how to fiddle with **** until I make it do what I want it to.

I just DO NOT WANT anymore.

I find myself simply NOT USING functionality that mobile phone makers make too ****ing annoying to access, because I have better things to do than fight technology.


Apart from that: fact is, I've seen grandmas do stuff with them that technologically fit people struggle to do on Windows - like make a tasteful home movie.

[besson3c]

There is not a thing wrong with laziness, nor is laziness in this context meant as a derogatory term.

The problem with these sort of designs is that Apple makes it difficult to leave the confines of their little bubble, but if you are content and well-served in that bubble, it's a win for everybody!

[mpancha]

ditto what besson3c said. I think the podcasters just used the wrong term. Its one of those things where you shouldn't take what's said so seriously.... although that's a hard thing to do in this PC crazed society we live in.