iParadise Lost
The trials of a long-term mac user
Friday 25 July 2008, 10:19 AM
Mirror, mirror on the wall who's the greatest of them all.
"In the competition between PCs and Macs, we outsell Apple 30-to-1. But there is no doubt that Apple is thriving. Why? Because they are good at providing an experience that is narrow but complete, while our commitment to choice often comes with some compromises to the end-to-end experience. Today, we’re changing the way we work with hardware vendors to ensure that we can provide complete experiences with absolutely no compromises. We’ll do the same with phones–providing choice as we work to create great end-to-end experiences."
So what will we see in years to come ? With current versions of each operating system mimicking each other more and more it might be as hard to tell them apart as a Republican or Democrat policy in the next US election.
So is it MircoApple or Applesoft anyone by say 2012 ?
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Ballmer's remarks on Apple are definitely food for thought. If anyone wants to see the rest of his remarks in a memo sent to staff, it's here.
What are you talking about?
Be explicit, GUI functionality ?
Underpinnings ?
While Microsoft's Vista copies "new" old GUI things from Tiger which is a 2 year old OS in their February '08 launched Vista, Leopard came out in November '08 with other set of "new" things that will be copied in Windows 7, for sure.
GUI's can be copied, because the GUI is not tied to the kernel, where you would have to need the kernels to be identical to copy features of the kernel.
What's the difference between Old Tiger's Widgets and new Vista's Gadgets? None or slim, to say the least.
If you are talking about kernel architectures, they are not even close kins. But a regular user is a GUI person, a "clicker" and least likely to explore the 'other full system' they have through command line interface in the Mac. They do not have that in Windows and that's a plus for the Mac. Now and in the years to come.
People move to the Mac as a choice for their computing experience at home.
On the other hand, there is no choice for corporate business, who is entrenched in a continuation of the same experience since the days of IBM's PC and DOS. When corporate business made the choice to accept the PC for their accounting and secretarial staff, they threw away the IBM selectric and made their accountants learn digital spreadsheets in Lotus 123 in DOS.
It was called the IBM PC for a reason, vs the Mac of 1984. The battle for corporate America in PC's was won by the collaboration of different and VARIED software houses and IBM's weight. If you go IBM you can't be wrong, that was the yesterday motto.
Windows 3.11 never dented the Mac, but Windows '95 did, since by that year IBM was losing their 'OS war' against the Gates - OS/2 vs Windows 95. By Windows 98, the war was all over, with Windows 'winning'. Thus most all establishments that tried OS/2 switched to Windows 95 desktops. The Mac was out of the picture in the mindset of business America. And where America lead, the world followed, unfortunately.
why? same thing - c'est la meme chose - If America works on Windows, and we in Liverpool or Fidelista Havana choose it too, it can't be wrong.
And still the Number One king of PC networks was NOVELL's Netware, not Exchange and Windows Server 2000. It was Exchange the Trojan that cracked the impregnable Novell.
By that same year, NeXT, the mother of all OS X's, was re-dressed with an Apple GUI, (the DOCK was not born in OS X, but in NeXT. The reason the Cocoa libraries are built with Objective-C language, is thanks to NeXT, But of course NeXT was 'owned' by Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple, and expelled for being too much of an eccentric maverick in the Pepsico Executive days.
So, what's for Apple - c'est la meme chose' TROJAN through iPod, iPhone, GSM, GPS, 3G, and MUSIC - the SOUND OF MUSIC to all human beings - iTunes, and once you learn that administrative tasks are less hidden and easier to find them in the Mac, and REALLY, you don't need to work with a 'net', with PCillyn, or any antivirus whatsoever - Apple GAINS a foothold in the hearts and minds of 'normal' GUI interface experience people when they do their 'switch' at the Apple Store, not having a clue about the FULL OTHER SYSTEM that they can't see inside their new bought Mac.
Ergo, the 2 systems to IT people will not be the same.
You can't administer Mac with Windows tools. Non sequitor.
This is the MAIN reason, non-cooperative administrative tools, that IT departments will not rush to the Apple stores to order "gimme 1000 of these".
As for Linux and X11 with KDE - the german township switch experience. _ I don't know, but I can figure that by now, the clickers at the different government facilities that were order to switch and click on PC with erased Windows and SuSE Linux installations, they are having a hard time adjusting to where things are in OpenOffice and if they need wordpad or notetext, where is the equivalent in the GUI tree.
As for me, at home, it is THE MAC...and not BallmerApple...
Oh heck NO...keep him with dancing lessons in UK entertained.
He can't dance worth a Bl**P.
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