[CocoaApp isThisTiger]

[I. Savant]

> The user may know what he wants, but I know best what my products actually
> do. As the developer of the products, I feel an obligation to inform the
> user what they do and what they don't do.

  Perfectly salient point. You can paste this fact (minimum
requirements) all over the download site, all over the packaging (if
there is any) and all through the manuals, but many users don't bother
reading that, they just download and (try to) run it.

  It's quite often that users will download some freeware app I have
floating around out there, ignoring the system requirements (OS X 10.4
or above). They then write angry missives about how they can't run the
(OS X only) app on their Windows PC.

  Of course that's an extreme case (how would you notify them in the
app if the app won't even launch), but it illustrates an important
point: sometimes users don't bother reading things. Sometimes that
sentence is more accurate if you replace 'sometimes' with 'most
times'. Who the hell cares if the user "knows he wants to run the app
on 'x' system" ... if he can't, he can't. "Them's the breaks," as the
horribly broken phrase goes. ;-)

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I.S.