Originally posted by Bandar Paul
What are you on about?
Want to try out Micrsofts next OS system? Here's how, go to the store check out OSX Tiger, Ta da!! Widgets, automatic updates, idisk, etc I
guarantee you Gates and co are stealing those things right now.
Yeah my nineties era G5 2.5 Dual 64-bit Processor ,with 5GIG of RAM, HDTV plasma screen monitor is a real dinosour. Im a photogrpaher so Mac is the
industry standard, oh and produce a little music on Logic ,the undisputed music producing program (A Mac ONLY program). Funny how all us creative
types are so behind the times. Used PC's my entire life went to Uni to become a photographer was forced to use Macs, no fully converted.
Oh and one last thing no one EVER has released a virus for a MAC. Also I can look at any webpage I want and NEVER have spyware problems! Aint that
nice. Dont think any of the music and film companies are suing any MAc users either. Rape and Pillage music for free!
Us Mac users like being the little guy so all the mindless lemmings out there can follow Microsoft and others blindlessly. I find it so funny how
people call Macs toys yet when it comes down to serious number crunching i.e. Photoshop, music processing Macs dominate the market.
Widgets? Widgets have been around for quite a while on Windows, long before they were on Mac OS. Ever heard of DesktopX? Windows had widgets all
the way back in 2000. They weren't as nice as they are now, but Windows did have them. The first appearance of Widgets on Mac OS were from a
program called Konfabulator, which later came to Windows, and later became known as the Yahoo Widget Engine (after Yahoo bought the developers).
Integrated Widgets didn't happen until Mac OS Tiger. So who stole from who?
Automatic updates? Damn, we've had that on Windows for a few years now. iDisk? I can just FTP my files (most OSs have FTP clients)... in fact,
that's what a good portion of Apple users end up doing. Macintosh Finder isn't required to modify or access a users iDisk.
There have been viruses released for Mac OS. The reason why they aren't as prevalent as viruses on Windows is because virus developers want to screw
up as many computers as possible when they release a virus... what is the most prevalent operating system? Bingo! Windows. The same goes for
Spyware and Adware. Mac OS's time will come once Apple starts gaining more marketshare in the computer world. Then you will see how "safe" it
is.
As far as "number" crunching goes, the only thing that made Macs different from a Windows/Linux PC was the processor being used. Don't you find it
strange Apple would jump ship all these years and jump on the Intel bandwagon? Here's a reason - IBM wouldn't manufacture as many processors or
types of processors as Apple wanted. The G series processor also get hot, really hot, and their performance has never been on par with Intel/AMD
processors. There's also the fact that IBM wouldn't/couldn't develop a decent mobile processor. Apple computers are not the "fastest" computers
in the world - it's pure marketing. Look at how they're now saying that their Intel-based computers are 2-5 times faster than the previous IBM
generation.
Now that Apple has switched to Intel, there won't be any difference between an Apple/Windows/Linux computer hardware wise - only the OS is different.
Steve Jobs even said something similar to "Apple is the OS."
The fact is there aren't too many original ideas in the OS world. Everyone is buying/stealing ideas from someone else. Hell, Apple bought the
original Mac OS (of course it wasn't called Mac OS) from Xerox Corp. Microsoft bought DOS from some small company in Washington (if I recall).
Microsoft needed a GUI, so they looked at Mac OS for ideas, and you know what? They really didn't steal it, Windows is quite a different beast from
Mac OS. Similar features (what OS doesn't?), yet very different in the way they work.
The Mac VS. Windows crap is a never-ending diatribe. Here's an idea: who cares what you use? It all comes down to user-preference. I prefer to
build my own computers and use Windows/Linux - it's a helluva lot cheaper than buying a Mac just to use Apple's OS. I can build a performance PC
that can easily go head-to-head with the best Mac for much less. Apple products are pure markup, why do you think they're having such good fortune
with the amount of net profit they are gaining each quarter? Steve Jobs is a marketing genius. He could sell feces and he would make a profit.
