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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."
Wow, Apple also makes computers??
I knew them as those over-priced MP3 player manufacturers, but PCs are definitely interesting, wish them good luck in that market.
A product with Intel hardware, Microsoft software and Apple design will be a hit on just so many markets.
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'.
Right buddy, right. Steve Jobs is usually right about what to do. Pass the pipe when yer done, eh? Oh, and pay no attention to the spiders you see on the wall, that's just a side effect of the crack too.
Eat shit and die, fucking karma whore.
Except Apple did license the Mac OS to companies. And they nearly went bankrupt because of it. UMAX, Motorola, PowerComputing, Radius. They all had licenses. Apple's share just decreased even more rapidly.
It's not fair to say that's what caused Apple's marketshare to decline.
It's also around that time that Apple switched from being "the easy to use computer" to "the computer used by elitist asses". Which they've remained ever since.
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?
1. For people who have a fucking clue what they are doing, 1 is not important. I know that if a hard drive fails (which is just as likley on an Apple machine since they use the same components), I can pop down to the store and have my machine back running in 30 minutes. Or I could travel miles to my nearest apple store, send it back to Apple, or open it up and ruin the warranty. And on Apple machines, since the motherboard and the CPU are not easily replaceable, you don't want to fuck that up badly.
Apple should really sell motherboards/CPUs seperate for part people who dont' want to pay $600 for a second hand part that is really, really, rare.
2. You just did the example right there. Doom3 (soon). Emphasise on 'soon'. It's not going to be out until Q3-4 (most likley 4) and when it does, everyone on the PC world will be playing HL2 and whatever new games come out. I tried to do mac gaming, but it was horrible because 1) you already knew about exactly how each game worked from others who played in months (even years!) before you, and 2, the ports suck. DirectX9 is a bitch to port with the same quality and speed because quite frankley, OpenGL just doesn't have the same standardized feature set that DX does. Oh also, Apple graphic cards suck. Hard. Overpirced and underpowered.
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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.