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Apple Inventor Passes
By WebProNews
Staff Writer
Article Date: 2005-02-28
Jeff Raskin, the Apple developer responsible for the Macintosh computers, has passed away at age 61.
According to numerous reports, Raskin joined Apple in 1978 as employee number 31. He was an advocate for easier computer design and use, which spearheaded his desire to develop Macintosh computers. He was head of the Mac development team, which kicked-off in 82.
As reported in TechWorld.com,
He is credited with significantly advancing the design of user interfaces, which in the early 1980s were largely text-based and required users to memorise complex commands. Raskin convinced his peers at Apple that to reach a wider audience, the Macintosh needed an interface that was elegant and easy to use.
"Up to that time, at Apple and most other manufacturers, the concept was to provide the latest and most powerful hardware, and let the users and third-party software vendors figure out how to make it usable," he wrote later on his website.
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