Existing users, 
Horrible looking program icons - brindsley quives
i agree. in this case you CAN judge a book by its cover. i've downloaded and test-driven this suite of apps several times over the years and found them horrible, unintuitive and poorly functioning.
having said that, i know we're in a minority here. for some reason i've never been able to fathom, the stone apps [along with graphicconverter] seem to have the rest of the mac community falling to their knees in adulation - and anyone who dares to criticise is treated like a lunatic.
personally i think the king has no clothes!
Wednesday, August 02 2006 @ 03:26 AM PDT
Horrible looking program icons - CaptFinn1
Trust me, don't judge a book by it's cover, or a software app by it's icons. the asking price is worth it for Create alone. Create is InDesign (or Quark) plus Illustrator for the masses, and upgrades are free for life. If you've found the Adobe style menus and palettes hard to get around in, try Andrew Stone's apps for a month, and you'll wonder why all software isn't written this way.Everything is all native, btw, and Andrew Stone has been developing for OS X before Apple even thought of it.
Wednesday, September 13 2006 @ 05:00 AM PDT
Horrible looking program icons - rbltx
I bet you're the kind of person Jedi mind tricks work well on. Do you buy products for the slick packaging or the value they contain? I shudder to think how you'll vote.I've been a long time user of Stone's products. I believe he gives great value, innovative software and personal service when something is broken. I've reported errors and gotten fixes with 24-36 hours. Try that with a big software house.
Wednesday, November 28 2007 @ 03:48 PM PST
Horrible looking program icons - rbltx
I bet you're the kind of person Jedi mind tricks work well on. Do you buy products for the slick packaging or the value they contain? I shudder to think how you'll vote.I've been a long time user of Stone's products. I believe he gives great value, innovative software and personal service when something is broken. I've reported errors and gotten fixes with 24-36 hours. Try that with a big software house.
Wednesday, November 28 2007 @ 03:52 PM PST
Horrible looking program icons - The Prairie Prince
This comment has the look and feel of a disgruntled competitor or wannabee icon designer. The icons look fine to me.Tuesday, January 01 2008 @ 11:38 AM PST
- Horrible looking program icons - rubaiyat | Sunday, August 10 2008 @ 09:23 PM PDT
Horrible looking program icons - rubaiyat
It actually goes beyond that.The GUI of the Stone apps break all the conventions and then some. The new user spends considerable time just trying to work out how the author has done things <b><i>his</b></i> way.
I periodically have a look (I confess, not recently) because potentially the apps could be useful if I could only get past the bits that don't work or work so oddly I can't figure out how to do it.
I think Mr Stone has very definite ideas of how to do things, he is an ex-Architect, so appealing to his "aesthetic" better half is not going anywhere.
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Friday, May 26 2006 @ 11:12 PM PDT