Listening to the other side
Sometimes I think that the perfect job must be “Devil’s Advocate”. After all, if you have anything more than a speck of the sceptic in your genetic profile, it’s hard to take the world around us at face value. Particularly a world where someone always wants to sell something to someone else. Like telemarketers. Anyone that calls me at home with a financial offer had better be ready to pony up, or else I will take the time to expose the weakness in the argument. It’s in my nature.
We’ve been “fighting a virus” for a few days now (I’ve been fighting and someone else has been coaching), so when someone else decided to explore the Dark Side by going online to the McStore my neck hairs bristled. As the site offered up “an introduction to their really fine operating system that is named for a rare cat”, my advocate side wanted to show the alternatives. But I’m also polite, so I decided to prepare the script in my head. Think of a performance of Rocky Horror, where the responses can be learned in advance of the presentation. Dance steps WILL follow.
A finder is an explorer. A time machine doesn’t exist. A dock is a place to park your boat. Coloured icons do NOT replace descriptive text. The chooser is someone that stands guard outside a nightclub. A 13 inch screen is not big enough to do anything other than provoke envy. Are we clear on the direction yet? “So many features – over three hundred new ones in this version alone” – belies the question about how minimalist any earlier version must have been. A garage band belongs in a garage. When the presentation said Bye, I was already out the door.
Their online store proves that anything can be sold for too much money if the client lacks commons sense.
