On 9/12/2018 4:35 PM, Mayayana wrote:
"Neil" wrote
|
| | Adobe's wildly overpriced products only survive for the same
| | reason MS Office does: Monopoly incompatibility and
| | a handful of specialized functions desired by people who
| | work with it all day. A secretary needs MS Office. A
| | fashion photographer needs Photoshop. Then there are
| | all the suckers who fork out $500 because they heard
| | those are the only programs to buy.
| |
| | So... in your opinion, people who are secretaries or photographers
| | should buy programs they don't know because...?
| |
|
| Where'd you get that? I said just the opposite.
|
| I thought it would be clear from my statement that they *buy programs*,
| which is not typically required of them for work. More than likely,
| they'll buy the programs they know.
|

You're making it complicated. All I was saying was that
with a secretary or graphic artist who works all day with the
software, it might make sense to buy MS Office or PS.
But that's not true for most of the people who buy
those things. They're paying far too much for functionality
they won't use -- or that they can get much cheaper --
just because they asked around and heard MS Office
or PS is the official program to get.

I doubt that "most people" buy pro-level Adobe products for any reason,
as they have no use for them. OTOH, almost all corporate workers use MS
Office, not just secretaries. It would be hard to weed out those who
have no benefit from using that vs. some freeware, so I'd not refer to
those folks as "suckers".


| And since when are adult ed courses to teach
| professional skills?
|
| Around here, that's quite common. Many of the educational ads on TV are
| from community colleges offering degrees to those with a 4-year degree
| in an area that they can't find employment.
|

No. I wasn't referring to evening classes. I said adult ed.
Adult ed means courses for people who are not in school,
typically held evenings. The adult ed classes I've seen
have never offered accredidation. For instance, the local
high school in my town offers classes.

As Wolf pointed out, your concept of "Adult ed" has no relevance. Who do
you think already has a 4-year degree, other than 'Young Sheldon'? I've
already described the offerings that qualify directly as "Adult Ed", so
you can just re-read it if you aren't clear about the meaning.

| Menus on Windows tend to be similar. If you
| know Edit - Select All in one program then you
| know it for all programs.
|
| You hang around a different bunch of folks than I do, as I know of none
| that are unaware of such matters.
|

Why doesn't that surprise me? Do you know
any people who go outdoors or eat fresh food?

???

Most of the people I know haven't noticed those
details.

I hang around adults, and they've been using computers for years, if not
decades, so such things as menu options are not new to them. YMMV.

--
best regards,

Neil