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Apple Climbs Into Third Place In U.S. PC Market
Tibor the Hun writes "According to Gartner and IDC, Apple now has between 7.8 and 8.5% of market share. While those numbers are not astonishing, they are not insignificant, and their growth does not seem to be slowing down. Will the pearly gates of acceptance open up for them once they reach the magic 10%, and will that have a positive effect on desktop Linux adoption? Hard to tell, but it's good to see that normal people (not just us geeks) are choosing to go with a different OS, rather than staying with the headache-inducing Windows."
I argue that it's actually impossible to get Windows to run decently no matter how much of a geek you are because the software is written poorly and is designed to annoy the user. Even if we take you at your word about getting windows to "run well", meaning installed as the code is written, it's not that I can't do it, I don't want to. This is because it's a POS operating system. So, from my point of view, these aren't "cheap shots" in the introduction but a statement that largely agrees with my experience.
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its not the company or its product that is making them successful, its the fanboiness of their users.
apple is a brand just like benetton. flashy, trendy and extremely overpriced.
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I made the switch to Mac in 2005, got a first generation MacBook Pro. I was so excited to be using a corporate-backed, posix-compliant, end-user operating system. I was an evangelist. I snuffed my nose at Windows users. Any "issues" I had with OS X I attributed to just being new to it. Then I had to gut-check myself. I hated OS X. UI Consistency? Really? That green plus button does a million different things, depending on the application you are using. Is there a sane way to show hidden files in finder? Command-line hack. Wow, that's user friendly. Don't get me started on HFS+. Wanna develop apps for it? Well, you're stuck with objective-c. That will come in handy... nowhere else. Oh wait, there's openStep, excuse me. It was also nice to see a dual core brought to its knees by the simplest of tasks, 10+ seconds to load an application. Good thing they made that pretty rainbow beach ball, because you'll be staring at it a lot. Oh yeah, and when you receive your new $3000 laptop, you come to find out that an "error" in manufacturing resulted in gobs of thermal paste being put on the processor, gpu and southbridge, acting as an insulator against the copper backing, instead of aiding heat transfer. And, since apple doesn't own up to it, you have to void your warranty to fix the problem yourself. I have pictures if anyone is interested. Let's be honest, apple users are label whores, who get off on slick presentation and packaging. They proudly display the apple logo on the back of their hybrid and take great joy in sniffing their own flatulence.
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Registry Bloat? System folder Bloat? What the hell kinda junk are you installing on that poor box. You are the problem: Users installing crappy software that they don't need from companies they have never heard of that they don't like and uninstall, which leaves tons of proprietary drivers and unnecessary hooks lying all over your OS.
Pokerstars, a telnet window, cygwin and firefox, and all the requisite crap for dealing with microsoft lock-in (word, excel), and photoshop. I've had this installed on a win2k box for over 5 years and only rebooted like twice.