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While these things may count as reasons why Clippy was never well received, another reported problem of the dreaded assistant has just been unearthed: the Office Assistant was found to be too masculine by people. Wait. Let me get this straight. Microsoft. Ignored feedback. Really?
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I can't see how it came to be news! It happened a thousand time in the past...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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If they'd been really smart, they never would've had a focus group in the first place.
When they asked Steve Jobs why he didn't take customer feedback he replied something like:
"Did Thomas Edison ask for feedback when he invented the lightbulb?"
If you have to ask, then you probably don't know what is actually good anyway. 
Seriously, I take one look at Clippy and instantly know: LOSER!
EDIT
Here's another:
Henry Ford said, "If I'd asked people what they wanted, they would have asked for a better horse."
modified 25-Jun-15 16:50pm.
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The light bulb giving direct feedback on whether or not the idea is correct, same thing can not be said of modern software (or any man/machine interface). Edison was smart enough to know he did not need feedback.
Jobs comparing himself to Einstein is a bit funny though. Makes one wonder why he held back all those previous years 
newton.saber wrote: If you have to ask, then you probably don't know what is actually good anyway.
I'd recommend you read Joel Spolsky's blog, he knows a thing or two about the subject.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Except that Thomas Edison didn't invent the lightbulb. He just made a really, really good one.
Much like much of the work of Mr Jobs.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I know. I wondered how long it would take someone to point that out.
I kept the quote as it was. I wonder if Jobs too knew Edison didn't actually invent the lightbulb but only made the filament last longer thus making it a commercially viable product.
I think the point is that Steve Jobs could even bend a quote to suit his own needs. He was a genius after all. 
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Steve Jobs had an overactive aesthetic gland and to him, I suspect, a product wasn't a product (be it a light globe or a music player or a phone) until it was perfect (within the physical limitations of the time). No compromises, not pandering to comprises by committee.
I'm extremely sad that's now gone. Apple will continue to refine, based on market feedback, what they have going, but I think the "innovations" that will now come out will be market driven forays into areas they can simply apply their legacy formula.
That makes me sad. Very sad.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I agree and I'm an Androider. I don't use Apple products.
However, I'm currently reading the Walter Isaacson Bio of Steve Jobs and the best thing about Jobs was that he was The Visionary for the product. That is what Apple will truly miss.
I honestly think Jobs was a user of the stuff that he (his team) was building.
Then he was uber-opinionated about how he wanted to use those things.
At times his opinions about things such as even the inside of the product looking beautiful was absolutely ridiculous since you have to get the product to market at a reasonable price.
But, I'd much rather have a product by an Artist like Jobs than some person who churns out crap.
Interesting discussion.
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The most important contribution Steve made was to say "no".
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Wait. Let me get this straight: The Office Assistant was found to be too masculine?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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So why didn't they use that red rubber ball as default? Maybe too soft?
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Yeah. I wonder what they were smoking to come up with that.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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But the little puppy dog and the Wizard dude!?! Awesome. Completely and totally Awesome.
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"Too masculine"? I never saw Clippy, but I suppose it wasn't modeled after Pete Steele or Manowar.
Next complain I suppose will be "too gay", "too white", "not child friendly" and so many political incorrectness whining.
I want my Clippy to look like a zerg hydralisk, crawl over caption bars - if those still exists, and hissing and spitting to programs attempting to write in %PROGRAMFILES%.
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Google hasn’t announced it yet, but the company earlier this year started offering free beta access to Cloud Source Repositories, a new service for storing and editing code on the ever-expanding Google Cloud Platform. Google Code developers heard laughing in the background
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Oh goody, there are almost as many code repositories as there are text editors...
#SupportHeForShe If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
Only 2 things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Turns out, men's superb mathematical abilities might be all in their heads It just doesn't add up
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What's scary is that I already know I'm weak in math-fu. 
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Sounds like it's all imaginary to me!
Marc
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Rotate 90 degrees and try again.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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I took the sin of that. Got to one. Rotated once. Came to same answer. 
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My wife is so much better at math than I.
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I double-checked the data for that study; it doesn't add up.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Unless you think using your feet, it would indeed be in your head. And yes, it helps if you think that you are capable of something. Helps more if you indeed are.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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It may be hackers and cyber criminals that are in the front of most people's minds when thinking of security, but a worrying number of attacks come from organization insiders. Look to your right. Look to your left. If you don't see a hacker, you might be the hacker
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