A Look Back at Apple's 2003

Samvit writes "The end of the year is upon us, so it's naturally time for those retrospectives to start coming in. Ars Technica has a fantastic look back at Apple in 2003. 2003 was one of the biggest years for Apple, arguably the biggest in a very long time. Still, Ars is typically fair, so the author lays down not only the good in 2003, but also the bad and the ugly. There's a bit of prognostication going on too--a little something for everyone."

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Re:Mac OS X sucks MOD FLAMEBAIT IF YOU AGREE!

[the Man in Black]

Moderator Licencing Agreement : By moderating this offtopic, troll, flamebait or overrated, you ACKNOLEDGE THAT APPLE FUCKING SUCKS! If you disagree, moderate 5, insightful!

Is it me, or can you always tell when school is out for the holidays?

Ah, well. I'll wait a few weeks for the artful trolls to return.

Re:Right Track

[iocat]

I have to admit, as a former Apple lover, than I can no longer stand Macs at all. OSX is great, but using the desktop GUI is way slower on a G4 (haven't tried it on a G5) than System 7 was on my Centris 650 ten years ago. Since I spend a lot of time switching between programs that don't require too much power (word processing, spreadsheets, email -- nothing that couldn't be done well on an Apple //c to be honest), the apparent speed of the computer to me is based entirely on the GUI speed rather than the speed it executes Photoshop filters.

In these cases, the Mac is just anti-productive: The stupid desktop animations can't be turned off entirely (though they can be minimized), and the one-button mouse is just a travesty to navigation compared to a two button mouse with scroll wheel. With XP, I was able to turn off all the stupid fading/animation effects and actually get stuff done fast.

The net effect is that I, at least, work a lot slower on a Mac today than I do on a Windows machine. Hence my anti-Mac status. I'll give you that Macs look awesome, the iPod is neat (I'm sure I'll buy one eventually), but that doesn't go a long way when it takes ten times as long to launch WORD on a Mac than it does on a Windows machine.