I've said it before and I'll say it again - Vista is not selling.
That's ok, with the raging success of the Zune, Microsoft, Inc. is dropping the "Inc." portion and is now going by just Microsoft to symbolize their new direction.
It is funny (strange, not haha) how badly Microsoft fails at understanding the proper relationship between eye-candy and functionality. Mac OS X and iPods get it right, so MS comes along and slaps some (to a pc geek's eye) pretty interface or brown rubber coating on their product, and voila! They have eye-candy too! Unfortunately for the MS crowd, their version of eye-candy is not functional, because you can't just throw a feature at a product just to add it to the bulleted features list on the outside of the package.
Compare the DV editor that comes packaged with MS XP (maybe the Vista one is better?) compared to the very competent and refined iMovie that comes with OS X. Yes, both systems can say they have dv editing capabilities on the package, but only Mac OS X can be taken seriously.
Also, I've noticed most people frown at all the eye-candy in OS X because they have grown to expect that all that stuff MUST be slowing the system down. If this is the case, then why aren't millions of Mac users scrambling to download third party utilities to turn off all that unnecessary stuff? My hypothesis is because the OS is decidedly NOT Microsoft, and people have stopped applying Microsoft logic and expectations to non-MS products.
can you have mercy and only post eight or ten fan boy raves about how amazingly wonderful their shiny new phones are
And at the same, dear editors, please post only eight or ten anti-Apple zealots' raves about how the iPhone "too expensive", "breaks easily" (substitute with "smudges and/or scratches easily") and "doesn't offer 3G". And make sure you include another 50 posts by people who own the Shintuko Zenotron 50xx3sr4g phone and have been doing these things for 10 years already! oh nevermind, that was the first 50 posts. My bad.
Unfortunately for your logic, most of the items you list are parts from other companies; Sony batteries are now Apple's manufacturing problem? Perhaps you should check your biases too, and see that Apple has been at the top or near the top in quality for computer products for longer than I can remember now.
I still don't understand why Apple did not make it 3G in the 1st version.
Most likely because most people have no idea (nor do they care) what 3G is. The phone is slick, regardless of technical specs. If people on slashdot would say WHY it is a bad thing that the phone isn't 3G, maybe more people would be inclined to see that as a bad thing, but as it is now, nobody cares.
Well about the only thing I understand from the parent post is that people who play Magic: the Gathering spend too much money on chase rares, and can't afford $500 phones? Seriously, uh, what? Pockets?
I was thinking the same thing. Why didn't they just buy the tracks from iTunes in the 128 and 256 varieties for this test? Afterall, people are bitching about iTunes and DRM, NOT our ability to rip our own cds at whatever bit rate we like.
Sell me cold coffee, claiming it is hot when it is not, and I stop buying your coffee. The same thing would happen to Apple if this lawsuit were legitimate. Considering Mac portables make up 50% of all Apple sales, and Mac portables outgrew the market by 30%, I would guess people aren't too disappointed with the displays.
Umm, sorry, ignorance is not an acceptable excuse for breaking the law.
So you are saying if there is a law that says you can't start a slashdot entry with "Umm, sorry", you would have no problem going to jail, because you didn't know it was against the law?
I wasn't going to say anything about the stupid "ignorance is no excuse" argument, but after the 3rd, 5th, 9th one, I have to say, you all are not lawyers, so quit trying to be one. There certainly ARE clauses for most laws when a citizen can reasonably be expected not to know about, or even have any need to know about certain laws. Prosecutors don't run around spouting "ignorance is no excuse!" because, surprise, prosecutors actually have to PROVE their cases. Saying This is why most laws insert words like "intent" and "willful". If one shows intent, they remove themselves from the "ignorant" defense. It is pretty hard to be willful, if you don't even know you are breaking a law.
You lost me at "Bush administration". Uh, we have had shitbag morons in society since, well, forever. Dudes have acted like jackassess in every bar of every city of every day of the week since I've been alive (1969) and probably far earlier than that (such as, uh, forever?)
Other than the out of place Bush bashing, I enjoyed your post.
Oops..Sorry, the thread ended at the bottom of the page and I didn't see you were responding to the iTunes store comment. I thought you were responding to the guy who posted the review as being a Mac Zealot...
I don't see how you could think it is a "Mac zealot perspective". I am a Mac zealot, and disagree with nearly every concept offered in the review. One of the few things I agreed with was that the best product isn't always the biggest/best one with the most features (no shit, Sherlock). Unfortunately, we live in a consumer culture of excess where everything has to be big (SUV's) and have tons of features (stereo receivers where more buttons=better) etc. To be a fan of understated, minimalistic consumer electronics makes one a zealot or a fan-boi, because things like Macs, iPods and Bose stereos have far less features than similar products (that have more features and cost less). I for one am glad to be a zealot. At least I believe in something...
If macs are sold as artistic machines (Apple sure tries to pull this off with the PC and Mac adverts) then shouldn't the monitors be as high quality and accurate as possible?
Um, no? Apple has the right to make it as good or bad as they want to. Somewhere in the middle is a price/performance balance, and Apple uses business models to determine what quality of screen to put on their entry-level portable computer. Let the consumer decide. Don't buy it if you don't like it.
If Apple (and others) need to start saying "262K colors enanced to appear as millions of colors", or something, I think it's beneficial to the consumer.
So YOU are the reason my McDonald's coffee warns me of hot contents! Can I thank you for the notice that cigarettes cause cancer? How about the notice that alchohol impairs my ability to operate machinery? Gee, thanks for looking out for me!
Obviously you are right, because no graphic designers or photographers are buying Macbooks. I mean, all those Macbook sales must be to teenagers with camera phones and myspace accounts for their "graphic design"? Or, more realistically, a LAPTOP computer used by a photographer for its PORTABILITY doesn't really need the best display. That's what all those huge 30" Cinema Displays on the desk are for. Either Apple is snowing the consumer, or the consumer doesn't care (my bet is don't care). The display on my Macbook is good enough for the price point and I really don't notice much difference compared to my other computers.
I'm curious to what your explanation is for calling Apple's gamma correction "a mistake". Back in 1988-1993 I worked for a design firm that was all Mac based, solely for the way Macs correctly display images, colors and typefonts. It seems most creative industries still prefer the Mac platform (although Windows has improved), and most consider images to be "more correct" on a Mac than on a PC (without some serious calibration).
So if $80 will break a middle class family, they should perhaps drop their $85/month cable television and internet contract? Or maybe they can not eat out twice a month. Maybe they could not go to the movies a couple of times. Maybe they could skip that impulse buy for the new pair of Nikes or two pairs of Levis?
Your argument holds no water. Judging by their purchasing habits, $80/month is nothing to a middle-class family. Perhaps you meant a poor family?
I'm not sure if you are trying to preach at us for telling us you ride the bus, but I live on a country road with no bus line. Even if it did have a bus, I put a price on convenience. I would save enough money in convenience to buy more than a "couple of iPods a year".
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Compare the DV editor that comes packaged with MS XP (maybe the Vista one is better?) compared to the very competent and refined iMovie that comes with OS X. Yes, both systems can say they have dv editing capabilities on the package, but only Mac OS X can be taken seriously.
Also, I've noticed most people frown at all the eye-candy in OS X because they have grown to expect that all that stuff MUST be slowing the system down. If this is the case, then why aren't millions of Mac users scrambling to download third party utilities to turn off all that unnecessary stuff? My hypothesis is because the OS is decidedly NOT Microsoft, and people have stopped applying Microsoft logic and expectations to non-MS products.
How do you explain the huge surge in (generally considered more expensive and high end) Macintosh systems?
Wow, looks like we have the first iPhone Killer...or maybe not.
Show me your $59 phone please. Otherwise shut up and leave.
Unfortunately for your logic, most of the items you list are parts from other companies; Sony batteries are now Apple's manufacturing problem? Perhaps you should check your biases too, and see that Apple has been at the top or near the top in quality for computer products for longer than I can remember now.
Well about the only thing I understand from the parent post is that people who play Magic: the Gathering spend too much money on chase rares, and can't afford $500 phones? Seriously, uh, what? Pockets?
I was thinking the same thing. Why didn't they just buy the tracks from iTunes in the 128 and 256 varieties for this test? Afterall, people are bitching about iTunes and DRM, NOT our ability to rip our own cds at whatever bit rate we like.
Sell me cold coffee, claiming it is hot when it is not, and I stop buying your coffee. The same thing would happen to Apple if this lawsuit were legitimate. Considering Mac portables make up 50% of all Apple sales, and Mac portables outgrew the market by 30%, I would guess people aren't too disappointed with the displays.
I wasn't going to say anything about the stupid "ignorance is no excuse" argument, but after the 3rd, 5th, 9th one, I have to say, you all are not lawyers, so quit trying to be one. There certainly ARE clauses for most laws when a citizen can reasonably be expected not to know about, or even have any need to know about certain laws. Prosecutors don't run around spouting "ignorance is no excuse!" because, surprise, prosecutors actually have to PROVE their cases. Saying This is why most laws insert words like "intent" and "willful". If one shows intent, they remove themselves from the "ignorant" defense. It is pretty hard to be willful, if you don't even know you are breaking a law.
He's probably the cop's Uncle Dad or Cousin Brother.
Other than the out of place Bush bashing, I enjoyed your post.
Oops..Sorry, the thread ended at the bottom of the page and I didn't see you were responding to the iTunes store comment. I thought you were responding to the guy who posted the review as being a Mac Zealot...
I don't see how you could think it is a "Mac zealot perspective". I am a Mac zealot, and disagree with nearly every concept offered in the review. One of the few things I agreed with was that the best product isn't always the biggest/best one with the most features (no shit, Sherlock). Unfortunately, we live in a consumer culture of excess where everything has to be big (SUV's) and have tons of features (stereo receivers where more buttons=better) etc. To be a fan of understated, minimalistic consumer electronics makes one a zealot or a fan-boi, because things like Macs, iPods and Bose stereos have far less features than similar products (that have more features and cost less). I for one am glad to be a zealot. At least I believe in something...
Obviously you are right, because no graphic designers or photographers are buying Macbooks. I mean, all those Macbook sales must be to teenagers with camera phones and myspace accounts for their "graphic design"? Or, more realistically, a LAPTOP computer used by a photographer for its PORTABILITY doesn't really need the best display. That's what all those huge 30" Cinema Displays on the desk are for. Either Apple is snowing the consumer, or the consumer doesn't care (my bet is don't care). The display on my Macbook is good enough for the price point and I really don't notice much difference compared to my other computers.
Man, I can't live without those other .5 million pixels!
I'm curious to what your explanation is for calling Apple's gamma correction "a mistake". Back in 1988-1993 I worked for a design firm that was all Mac based, solely for the way Macs correctly display images, colors and typefonts. It seems most creative industries still prefer the Mac platform (although Windows has improved), and most consider images to be "more correct" on a Mac than on a PC (without some serious calibration).
Your argument holds no water. Judging by their purchasing habits, $80/month is nothing to a middle-class family. Perhaps you meant a poor family?
I'm not sure if you are trying to preach at us for telling us you ride the bus, but I live on a country road with no bus line. Even if it did have a bus, I put a price on convenience. I would save enough money in convenience to buy more than a "couple of iPods a year".