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Apple Wants Your Input
Johnny Mnemonic writes "Apple is asking for feedback specifically from PC users about why you might be considering a Mac purchase, or if you recently purchased a Mac for the first time, why you made the switch. A good opportunity to sound off about your Apple peeves, but also a chance to let Apple know what you think they're doing right. The Mac OS X feedback page, originally from the Public Beta, is still up and accepting feedback, also."
...keep doing annoying shit like that one button mouse. I would have gotten a cube, but I hate the mouse and the OS, then they basically made a cool X windows system and I was willing to get a Ti laptop - but the motherfucking one buttong mousepad on it, no way in hell I will ever get anything of theirs no matter how shiny it is until they do less retarded ergonomic shit. they claim they are innovative and doing things to better ergonomics - bullshit - they are doing it for the sake of being different. fuck that.
There are some odd things afoot now, in the Villa Straylight.
"Besides, any system that builds support for bouncy curvy things into the OS is just plain old fashion f*cking stupid."
Not a big XP fan, are you, Trebek.
"Except in this case the $9,000 Geo Metro probably will work just as well or better."
You just don't get it. BMW and Apple aren't targeting you then. One of the reasons is quality, the other is "Conspicuous Consumption." Ask an economist what it means.
1. Mouse Buttons: Apple is never going to make a multi-button mouse. Thousands of usability studies have demonstrated that the new user (a large part of Apple's target market) is confused by a second button! If you want a two button mouse, there are hundreds of USB mice, for really cheap. Which brings me to my next point:
2. Price! I don't believe how many people bitch and moan about how expensive the Mac is, and how they would only buy one if it wasn't so damn expensive. Do you listen to yourselves? Its like bitching about how expensive Lexus or BMW are. Apple is the BMW of the computer world. People are happy to pay a premium for quality! If you can only afford a piece of shit Ford Focus, of course you're not going to get a fully loaded luxury car! Duh!! And if you are part of the 2% of the population that builds your own computer, Apple doesn't give a rats ass about you. You will never be happy with a pre-built box, and you're too small of a market.
3. Boxen: Apple will never license the Mac OS again. They tried it once, and the only thing it accomplished was to cannabalize Mac Hardware Sales. Repeat after me: Apple makes its money from hardware. Everything else (including OS X) is just bonus features to sell more hardware! With a business model like that, it would be totally idiotic to let anyone clone your hardware, or port your OS to x86. If Steve Jobs ever tried this, as a shareholder, I would personally have his head in a guillotine. (More beheadings at shareholders meetings, I always say). It will never happen again. The only reason they licensed the OS in the 90s was because they didn't have the balls to stand up to the bitching and moaning of morons who don't get it! And finally:
4. Applications There are almost 20,000 Mac Apps listed here, and thousands more (including very high quality shareware and freeware here. How many application do you fucking need people? How many can you run at once? What task do you need to do that cannot be done on a Mac?
I think that people who use these excuses are covering for their bigotry. If you hate Macs, grow some balls and just come out and say it! Stop making up bullshit excuses, pretending that you would buy a Mac, if only they were cheaper, and came with a two button mouse. Bullshit. You probably have a deep seated fear of change, and maybe other psychological issues. Come to think of it, if you are a Mac Bigot, you better go see a shrink, because you are pretty fucked up. Nobody in their right mind would buy anything else.
Reality has a liberal bias
Fashion things?
There are some great decisions, and not just design. They function better. Things like a hinged case, while everyone else had to fumble with a screwdriver on their tower. An ADC cable to carry power, data, and video in one cord.
If you want to take apart your Ford/x86 box, go right ahead, I'll use the machinery that "just works" without me sticking my head under the hood every five minutes to find out the hardware conflict.
Anyways, it's more the superior OS X, rather than the hardware that makes it so great.
I think you misunderstood.
Back when I tried to use a Zip drive, i botched up all the cables, and terminated stuff wrong. The good news was that it still booted and worked fine.
Now, if I screwed up a ATA chain by putting Master-slave jumpers wrong, I'd be afraid I'd short out the drive, the CD-ROM and the motherboard.
You still didn't answer my problem of jumper cables and dip switches, not to mention the archaic BIOS that needs tweaking, even if only once.
Apple makes good towers, better laptops. They're made from good ol' LEXAN polymer, meaning I can jump on the thing repeatedly. Now the laptops are great, I've dropped the things down stairs and they still work fine, as opposed to the Toshiba which loosened all its bays permanently, and the Dell which took some nasty scuffs on the case.
"If you are saying you'd rather not read a simple manual and overpay instead you are no better than a PC user who bashes Macs without even trying one."
I'm a much different person, I see. I'll pay someone to paint the exterior of my house. Sure it costs more than just the paint, but I can lounge comfortably on the couch, knowing full well that the guy doing it outside has much more experience than me. Last time, I managed to smear it onto the windowsills, and just make a mess, inefficient and newbie me.