I've been fairly loyal to Apple due to the actions of those at the top, so yeah, there are a few of us. I think some of you call us fanbois, or something insecure like that.
DRM does absolutely nothing to prevent piracy, and it never will.
Yeah, that's why you see millions of copies of iTunes purchased songs freely available on the internet for download because someone has cracked them....or not. How is that doing "absolutely nothing to prevent piracy"?
Did you even read the article? He clearly states if the four labels' music is suddenly cracked and distributed illegally, Apple has a very short time period to remedy the situation, or lose all the content from 70% of the world's distributors. Those contracts sure are pesky burdons.
Windows 1.0 was never a public product. According to a Microsoft developer, "few people know that Windows 1.0 was actually never released. Windows 1.0 was the version of Windows that was demonstrated at the '83 Comdex. It would be 14 months until Microsoft eventually released Windows..."
HL2 and Doom 3 are just pretty technology demos. I would suggest that the original Half Life is a better "game" than HL2. Far Cry was much less repetitive than both HL2, and D3. Far Cry also at least tried to put new things into the game that weren't purely graphical tricks.
By keeping with the years of cleverly talking around facts, reinventing history, and perpetuating myths about the competition, Bill Gates maintains his stranglehold of misinformation on Average Joe Consumer.
You might be on to something. If Apple could somehow find a way to say "Visa doesn't work with an iPod", and that turns the masses to OS X......that would be a great thing, (if not sneaky)
Windows 1.0 never reached market because it was blocked by legal action, for being a blatant rip-off of Mac OS. I think Bill was insinuating that Apple stole "file..edit..view" from Xerox-PARC, which is a lame tactic used by most insecure Windows-lovers to bash Apple.
Well since you bring it up, I do recall using Photoshop 2 (or was it 3) years before a PC version was available, because PC's failed to address more than 16mb of ram and failed to adress more than 8-bit color, for starters. I suck at math, but I think 1992 is much more than "10 YEARS AGO".
Interestingly enough, Apple and Microsoft had roughly the same profit last quarter, but Microsoft required 10x the revenue to make as much as Apple, Inc. You can spout marketshare all you want, but shareholders and board members only care about the bottom line.
Well, yet another attempt at pushing decade old myths about the Mac. Would you care to list your "favorite" apps? I'm sure you'll see that in nearly every case, there is a Mac version, or more likely, a better, Mac-only version. I'll bet you a case of beer at least one of your favorite apps exists on the Mac, and that at least one was a Mac-first program.
Your 50% scenario is fairly flawed as well. Let's revise it to more realistic numbers, shall we? If 5% of the software you use is unsupported by Macintosh, yet you can run that 5% anyway, because you can dual-boot, you are safe from 99.9% of the virus (sic) out there: unless of course you run you Mac in Windows mode for more than the 5% of the time needed to support your favorite software.
Uh, would you like to cite your claim that Vista has made more money that OS X in its entire lifespan? Did you factor in the average cost of the Mac attached to OS X? What about all the $129 incremental updates? I didn't think so.
I'm not sure where you live, but the biggest line for the Vista launch that I've seen reported was 18 people. Even at $400 for the Ultimate version, that hardly makes a dent in the total OS X revenue thus far.
I'm a Mac user. If I get a job with Dell this Summer, I'll get a Dell. My loyalty is for sale. But since I don't work for Apple, yet choose to use a Mac...that says something right there.
I'm not going to deny that Macs aren't completely taken over every day, just because I've never seen it, but come on! Does anyone have any proof/link/reference, hell, I'll accept anecdotal evidence, that OS X has ever been hijacked even once, let alone "ever day"?
Well stated, but I still have to laugh that we are nitpicking the fact that 9 year-old beige G3s might be left out in the next round of OS X. I think we lost sight of the fact that even 2-year old PCs will struggle with Vista. And with OS X we are worried about decade old computers "probably" not working? I would hate to even think of what a 10 year old PC would do with XP, let alone Vista.
You can keep buying computers with the intent of upgrading internal components, like I did with my G4 7 years ago. Reality is, that motherboards, ram, video slots, etc. change so rapidly that by the time you want to upgrade your hunk of junk, you are investing in dead technologies. I built a PC a few years ago, with the benefit of being able to upgrade it forever...big mistake. It is cheaper just to go buy a new computer from Dell that has all the modern busses and video slots than it would be to keep upgrading my junker Athlon and board. In this arena, Macs win hands down.
His example isn't extreme, as I'm doing it with not one but TWO PowerMac G4 towers at home, (and my school has a handful of them as well). I bought the first one in August of 2000, so that makes it nearer to 7 years old, assuming I didn't pick it off of the conveyor belt. I just bought my friends G4 tower, which was the model before my AGP G4. That would make both of these towers "typical" machines from 2000 (or earlier). They both run 10.4, with 1gig of ram. The point remains, that they get faster with each OS upgrade, not slower like Windows upgrades. I seriously doubt that 10.5 won't work or will be too intensive for my old ass G4s.
Exactly. You hear stories of switchers to Mac, but how many people bail from the Mac to go to Windows? Now that Macs run Intel, I can run the latest flavor of Windows. I know more people switching to Macs now because of Intel processors (why, I'm not sure) than I've known in my 19 years of Mac use. (Think iPod success here?)
Just like Bill Gates in the interview, you likely "just don't get it." The ads are funny, period. The best jokes are funny because there is truth to them. I really like the one where he tapes a web cam to his head. This captures the culture of Windows perfectly.
I thought Bill's comment was curious here too. I think he was hinting that MS invented it (bold lie), without actually lying. Windows 1.0 was never released to the public, because of legal conflict with Apple. Let's see, Apple keeps on using File...Edit... etc. for a full three years before Windows 2.0, and I'm to believe that MS actually invented it? Nice revisionism, Bill. If Windows had file..edit..whatever, first, then pray tell, why was MS Office first available for the Mac, a full year before there was even a GUI for Windows? Maybe file..edit..view was a sub command of dos?
Thank you thank you thank you! Someone else finally calls out the pathetic "RTFM" dweebs! One day, in an ideal world, the majority will dictate how computers are designed, and not the geek sub-culture. Normal people use computers in much larger numbers than computer geeks, so why are are hands tied to using computers the way geeks do? Equally annoying is anyone who disputes another's point-of-view by calling them anything with the word boy/boi in it. Yeah, because that is an acceptable debate tactic that demonstrates a strong command of logical thought and expression...or not.
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I've been fairly loyal to Apple due to the actions of those at the top, so yeah, there are a few of us. I think some of you call us fanbois, or something insecure like that.
Because all those things cost money with no way for Apple to recover the costs?
He addressed that as well. Again, do you people even bother to read the article?
Did you even read the article? He clearly states if the four labels' music is suddenly cracked and distributed illegally, Apple has a very short time period to remedy the situation, or lose all the content from 70% of the world's distributors. Those contracts sure are pesky burdons.
Windows 1.0 was never a public product. According to a Microsoft developer, "few people know that Windows 1.0 was actually never released. Windows 1.0 was the version of Windows that was demonstrated at the '83 Comdex. It would be 14 months until Microsoft eventually released Windows..."
HL2 and Doom 3 are just pretty technology demos. I would suggest that the original Half Life is a better "game" than HL2. Far Cry was much less repetitive than both HL2, and D3. Far Cry also at least tried to put new things into the game that weren't purely graphical tricks.
By keeping with the years of cleverly talking around facts, reinventing history, and perpetuating myths about the competition, Bill Gates maintains his stranglehold of misinformation on Average Joe Consumer.
You might be on to something. If Apple could somehow find a way to say "Visa doesn't work with an iPod", and that turns the masses to OS X......that would be a great thing, (if not sneaky)
Windows 1.0 never reached market because it was blocked by legal action, for being a blatant rip-off of Mac OS. I think Bill was insinuating that Apple stole "file..edit..view" from Xerox-PARC, which is a lame tactic used by most insecure Windows-lovers to bash Apple.
Well since you bring it up, I do recall using Photoshop 2 (or was it 3) years before a PC version was available, because PC's failed to address more than 16mb of ram and failed to adress more than 8-bit color, for starters. I suck at math, but I think 1992 is much more than "10 YEARS AGO".
Interestingly enough, Apple and Microsoft had roughly the same profit last quarter, but Microsoft required 10x the revenue to make as much as Apple, Inc. You can spout marketshare all you want, but shareholders and board members only care about the bottom line.
Your 50% scenario is fairly flawed as well. Let's revise it to more realistic numbers, shall we? If 5% of the software you use is unsupported by Macintosh, yet you can run that 5% anyway, because you can dual-boot, you are safe from 99.9% of the virus (sic) out there: unless of course you run you Mac in Windows mode for more than the 5% of the time needed to support your favorite software.
I'm not sure where you live, but the biggest line for the Vista launch that I've seen reported was 18 people. Even at $400 for the Ultimate version, that hardly makes a dent in the total OS X revenue thus far.
I'm a Mac user. If I get a job with Dell this Summer, I'll get a Dell. My loyalty is for sale. But since I don't work for Apple, yet choose to use a Mac...that says something right there.
I'm not going to deny that Macs aren't completely taken over every day, just because I've never seen it, but come on! Does anyone have any proof/link/reference, hell, I'll accept anecdotal evidence, that OS X has ever been hijacked even once, let alone "ever day"?
Well stated, but I still have to laugh that we are nitpicking the fact that 9 year-old beige G3s might be left out in the next round of OS X. I think we lost sight of the fact that even 2-year old PCs will struggle with Vista. And with OS X we are worried about decade old computers "probably" not working? I would hate to even think of what a 10 year old PC would do with XP, let alone Vista.
You can keep buying computers with the intent of upgrading internal components, like I did with my G4 7 years ago. Reality is, that motherboards, ram, video slots, etc. change so rapidly that by the time you want to upgrade your hunk of junk, you are investing in dead technologies. I built a PC a few years ago, with the benefit of being able to upgrade it forever...big mistake. It is cheaper just to go buy a new computer from Dell that has all the modern busses and video slots than it would be to keep upgrading my junker Athlon and board. In this arena, Macs win hands down.
His example isn't extreme, as I'm doing it with not one but TWO PowerMac G4 towers at home, (and my school has a handful of them as well). I bought the first one in August of 2000, so that makes it nearer to 7 years old, assuming I didn't pick it off of the conveyor belt. I just bought my friends G4 tower, which was the model before my AGP G4. That would make both of these towers "typical" machines from 2000 (or earlier). They both run 10.4, with 1gig of ram. The point remains, that they get faster with each OS upgrade, not slower like Windows upgrades. I seriously doubt that 10.5 won't work or will be too intensive for my old ass G4s.
Exactly. You hear stories of switchers to Mac, but how many people bail from the Mac to go to Windows? Now that Macs run Intel, I can run the latest flavor of Windows. I know more people switching to Macs now because of Intel processors (why, I'm not sure) than I've known in my 19 years of Mac use. (Think iPod success here?)
Compare that to the Navy ship that was stranded in port by a nasty NT failure...
Just like Bill Gates in the interview, you likely "just don't get it." The ads are funny, period. The best jokes are funny because there is truth to them. I really like the one where he tapes a web cam to his head. This captures the culture of Windows perfectly.
I thought Bill's comment was curious here too. I think he was hinting that MS invented it (bold lie), without actually lying. Windows 1.0 was never released to the public, because of legal conflict with Apple. Let's see, Apple keeps on using File...Edit... etc. for a full three years before Windows 2.0, and I'm to believe that MS actually invented it? Nice revisionism, Bill. If Windows had file..edit..whatever, first, then pray tell, why was MS Office first available for the Mac, a full year before there was even a GUI for Windows? Maybe file..edit..view was a sub command of dos?
Thank you thank you thank you! Someone else finally calls out the pathetic "RTFM" dweebs! One day, in an ideal world, the majority will dictate how computers are designed, and not the geek sub-culture. Normal people use computers in much larger numbers than computer geeks, so why are are hands tied to using computers the way geeks do? Equally annoying is anyone who disputes another's point-of-view by calling them anything with the word boy/boi in it. Yeah, because that is an acceptable debate tactic that demonstrates a strong command of logical thought and expression...or not.