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Apple vs. Microsoft Myths Revisited
allgood2 writes "John Gruber at Daring Fireball has a great article exploring the myth that Apple could/would be Microsoft if only they had licensed their operating system. This myth has oft been purported in technology and business media."
Are you fucking stupid or what? His point wasn't that other hardware couldn't run it, his point was that IBM PC compatible hardware couldn't run it. Learn some basic comprehension skills, THEN post. You look like less of a dumbass that way.
'Standards' in computing only impress those who are impressed by things like 'standards'.
Usability wise, 9x/NT was a turd next to MacOS 7-9. Yes, NT was more stable than Classic OS (although I routinely measured my uptimes in the hundreds of days), but the UI on windows sucks, has always sucked, and always will suck.
For Christ's sake, they put the Start bar on the bottom of the screen just to be different from Apple. What a bunch of lamers.
Why yes, I AM a rocket scientist!
This has been said ten billion times I'm sure but...
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Apple probably doesn't really care about catering to the lowest common denominator, but if they want more people to buy their computers, they have to make them sensibly priced. I'm not talking laptops here, desktops.
Here is a situation, I need a new desktop computer. I have a nice laptop already and I have 2 nice 17" LCD displays
Ok, lets go to the Apple store and see what I can get. The cheapest desktop is $2,799.00 CAD. That is assinine. Dual 1.8, 256MB(?!!?!?) of RAM.
Yes, it's a sweet computer and yes it comes with nice unixy OS with a nice GUI, but it's about $1300 over my budget.
I guess Apple doesn't want to sell computers to guys like me. Whatever.
Wow. How do I mod an article as flamebait?
The Amiga 1000 did not have all this in 1984, because it wasn't released until July 1985. Only the Xerox/PARC Alta had a GUI before Apple. Learn your history Amiga-freak.