Jef Raskin is the subject of this week's Talk Time in Online. Since it's being discussed elsewhere, it seems churlish not to have a post here to enable comments.
It should perhaps be mentioned that while Raskin started the Macintosh project, he didn't finish it, having been ousted by Jobs in 1982. If the final design had been Raskin's machine, it would probably have been more like the Canon CAT, which is what Raskin did next.
In particular, Raskin regarded the mouse-driven graphical user interface as a dead end, and the CAT had neither.
Raskin's idea was to define an appliance for people who didn't really want a computer. The evolution of the Macintosh since 1984 has taken it further and further away from the appliance idea, and every year it has become more and more like a standard personal computer. From that point of view, Raskin is right: "there is only a little difference between using a Mac and a Windows machine".
