Double-clicking the output in the finder again leads to an error-message that tells me that the file is already open (which it isn't).

Double-clicking a saved viewer output in the finder opens an empty data file instead.

The only thing it conveys is your utter lack of interface design principals.īut apart from such minor issues (as you seem to think that UI design is a minor issue), the list of bugs in SPSS that I came across during a single week of working with SPSS 16.0 for Mac is mind-blowing.

I mean, honestly, is this some kind of joke? This interface does neither convey any informational value nor scientific professionalism (if that was intended). Secondly, the overall appearance makes me think its 1996.Įspecially the tool-bar looks exactly like I would expect a toolbar to look like in a 1990s piece of cheap shareware: Your programmers have obviously never heard of proper internationalization. Non-English characters, as they appear in the name of my organization (Universität Zürich), are not displayed correctly. The poor impression begins right after double-clicking the icon, when SPSS displays its spalsh screen: Do you think that just because we're scientists, you can throw this half-baked crap at us? Its astonishingly poor interface design and the long list of bugs I discovered during a single week of intense usage make me wonder whether SPSS 16 for Mac was ever used for its intended purpose at your company before you dared to ship it to us - your end users and customers. I have been frequently annoyed by software in my life time, but this is the first time that I actually feel insulted by a commercial piece of software. SPSS 16 for Mac - that I have to use on a frequent basis - is the most insulting piece of software I ever came across.

I am writing you this open letter concerning the quality of your most recent version of SPSS for the Mac - the first version that runs on intel-based Macs, SPSS 16.0 for Mac. Let me remind you that this is an exclusive piece of software that comes with a steep price tag of $639 for the single base version for higher-education institutions ($1699 for commercial users). Like the majority of my colleagues in the social sciences, I use the de-facto industry-standard for this task: SPSS the very product your company is bulit on, the very product that is supposed to deliver a 'statistical package for the social sciences' - what SPSS originally stood for before it became a brand. As a psychologist working in experimental research, the statistical analysis of data is the bread and butter of my daily work.

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