MacWorld Expo Traffic Analysis

Bioanarchism writes "MacWorld Expo has been the receiving end of the brute force of the Internet surfers. Netcraft also reports on the Internet traffic that other Apple websites have gotten since Steve Jobs gave the opening keynote." The Windows Server 2003-based MacWorld Expo site folded under all those hits, while Apple's sites, running Mac OS X, were only knocked into sluggishness. (Server load is a complex thing, of course -- more complicated than what OS is on the servers.)

Comments

Re:Huh?

[CountBrass]

Insightful oh for crying out loud, I didn't think it possible but the standard of moderation on /. has actually managed to get worse recently!

Perhaps there should be a simple IQ test before you're allowed to moderate: you have to be able to demonstrate an understanding of such advanced technical terms as "insightful", "informative' and "troll" and that you have the IQ that at least equals that of a common bread mold. That last one would catch half the current mods (and probably most of the editors as well).

Re:A new converter

[AstroDrabb]

Well, I can tell you never used an Apple. The Apple _is_ a media center in and-of-itself. There is no need for a "special" media center edition like MS is trying to pull off.

Do you really thin I would waste my money on a "media" center edition of WinXP from MS that locks down _all_ the content? Do you think I would spend my money on a "media" edition of WinXP when MS couldn't even deliver a working version for their big show in LV?

What do you think Apple is all about? Apple is all about bringing media to the masses. You have obviously never tried it, so you have no clue what you are talking about _or_ missing.

My wife is _real_ big in to photos/scrap-booking. When I showed her iPhoto with their "books", she just went nuts. Since then, my wife has built some of the best photo albums I have ever seen of our family. There were no tools/software on MS that even came close.

Stop being jealous of Mac and just go out an buy one. You will thank yourself the day you do.

I am not trolling here. You can look at my posting history to see that I was never Apple's biggest fan....Until I actually used Mac OS. Once I used it, I understood what all the other "mac-heads" were talking about. There is just no comparison with WinXP/Win2k3 vs. MaoOSX. I am a senior programmer for a fortune 500 and do 95%+ of my development on WinXP/Win2k/Win2k3 and Mac just kicks MS's ass! I really wish I could make the money I do as a MS Windows developer to develop Mac software. Maybe enough time can change that.