They bought Next which gave them Obj-C, Cocoa, Interface Builder (and basically XCode), Kernel, Postscript based display...
They didn't buy the Next technology. They bought the Next company. The people in charge of Mac OS X development at Apple came from Next. So, it's not like they're standing on the shoulders of giants. They are the giants in this case. And, just in case you didn't know, both Apple and Next were founded by Steve Jobs.
All I am saying is that Apple is regarded as the world's big computer innovator - they don't really innovate whatsoever. They are good at packaging stuff up neatly and doing silver sprays on laptops, but that's about it.
You need to do more research if you think Mac OS X is Linux with a different skin. And the laptops are anodized aluminum, they aren't sprayed.
I mean even the iPod, something I will be sure that Apple will go down for as the great digital music innovator is all bought-in components. They got the HDDs from Toshiba, the software + interface design that is so amazing from some small company that I can't remember the name of, and bought iTunes from another company I can't remember the name off.
I suppose Linux users craft their own hard drives from iron ore?
The OS for the iPod comes from PortalPlayer, but the interface and application design on top of that (including the fonts) are the work of Apple. Apple hired the guys that developed SoundJam and had them create iTunes. I honestly don't know how much SoundJam code was in iTunes 1.0, but I would imagine it was pretty much solely the low-level libraries because the applications looked very different.
What technologies has Apple actually 'innovated' in, apart from packaging up other people's work? Not many, that's the answer.
First non-legacy PC, FireWire, Rendezvous (ZeroConf), windowed GUIs, iPod, iTunes Music Store, ADC, ADB...
There was no real reason to use KHTML over Gecko for Safari. Firefox is very nearly as fast as Safari (on my iBook 800) now, and is compabitable with far more websites than Safari, due to Gecko having a lot more real world use than KHTML ever will. 7 vs 1-2%.
Seeing how Dave Hyatt has participated significantly in the development of Firefox and was also one of the key people at Apple in making the decision to go with KHTML, I'd say the decision was more well informed than you think. Apple has said before the main reason KHTML was picked over Gecko is that the code-base is more manageable and it will be better for the long term.
The kernel is Mach which Apple has been using since Next.
Safari uses the KHTML engine which has benefited largely from Apple's improvements.
Printing uses CUPS, but it is much easier to setup on a Mac.
The shell is bash, but most Mac users never touch it.
The only part of Linux that gets "bashed" by Apple is the kludginess of the GUI, utilities, and applications. Apple has never said Linux or BSD is based on poor foundational technologies. They just don't have the user experience down.
I'd argue it is both Ipod and Itunes that are luring people to the Macintosh. They see that Apple is really good at designing the whole widget and think that maybe that could be better than their current Brand X computer with Windows on it.
Feel free to price-out a cheaper, comparative computer to the following Macintoshes from any major PC vendor. State which Macintosh you're targeting. I bet you can't do it.
I think the point you tried to make is obvious. Technically minded people are switching to Macintosh because of OS X. However, it is significant that non-technical people have been prompted to switch because of the Ipod.
Windows puts every fucking window and every fucking application into the Taskbar. The Dock does not. I realize this is a little better in WinXP but I still prefer the Dock over the Taskbar. The Taskbar was one of the things I hated about Windows before switching to the Mac in 2001.
And that is exactly how it works at Pixar. If the creative team needs to new effect to realize their story, they talk to the tools team about getting it. It seems like some of the other studios see new technology and build their movies around them.
Great, I can play Doom 3 just when my friend that has it for Windows gets tired of playing it. I think I'm probably going to skip Doom 3. I would have bought if they'd had a much closer release date to the Windows version as they did with Quake 3 and as Blizzard seems to be able to do with all of their games (simultaneous, actually).
Don't you really want the Taskbar to be fixed? Why don't you complain to Microsoft instead of Mozilla? Something like Apple's Dock is way better than the Windows Taskbar.
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I definitely agree. I'll either pay for the game or the service, but not both. WoW is the first game I've even considered paying for the service for.
You need to do more research if you think Mac OS X is Linux with a different skin. And the laptops are anodized aluminum, they aren't sprayed.
I suppose Linux users craft their own hard drives from iron ore?
The OS for the iPod comes from PortalPlayer, but the interface and application design on top of that (including the fonts) are the work of Apple. Apple hired the guys that developed SoundJam and had them create iTunes. I honestly don't know how much SoundJam code was in iTunes 1.0, but I would imagine it was pretty much solely the low-level libraries because the applications looked very different.
First non-legacy PC, FireWire, Rendezvous (ZeroConf), windowed GUIs, iPod, iTunes Music Store, ADC, ADB...
I never said it was.
The kernel is Mach which Apple has been using since Next.
Safari uses the KHTML engine which has benefited largely from Apple's improvements.
Printing uses CUPS, but it is much easier to setup on a Mac.
The shell is bash, but most Mac users never touch it.
The only part of Linux that gets "bashed" by Apple is the kludginess of the GUI, utilities, and applications. Apple has never said Linux or BSD is based on poor foundational technologies. They just don't have the user experience down.
I'd argue it is both Ipod and Itunes that are luring people to the Macintosh. They see that Apple is really good at designing the whole widget and think that maybe that could be better than their current Brand X computer with Windows on it.
Feel free to price-out a cheaper, comparative computer to the following Macintoshes from any major PC vendor. State which Macintosh you're targeting. I bet you can't do it.
Emac
Ibook
Imac
Apple's LCD monitors are superior to almost all others, and they're fucking cheap in comparison to Sony's.
Macintoshes aren't expensive, Apple just doesn't build cheap pieces of crap like other PC vendors.
Mach kernel, with BSD userland.
I think the point you tried to make is obvious. Technically minded people are switching to Macintosh because of OS X. However, it is significant that non-technical people have been prompted to switch because of the Ipod.
The analyst actually saw a conversion rate of 12%, however he halved the number to be conservative before calculating his valuation of AAPL.
Kennedy wasn't a civilian.
Firefox should be renamed to Internet EXP.
Because I use the real thing. ;)
Windows puts every fucking window and every fucking application into the Taskbar. The Dock does not. I realize this is a little better in WinXP but I still prefer the Dock over the Taskbar. The Taskbar was one of the things I hated about Windows before switching to the Mac in 2001.
Id had Graeme Devine, but they wouldn't let him work on Mac ports. :(
And that is exactly how it works at Pixar. If the creative team needs to new effect to realize their story, they talk to the tools team about getting it. It seems like some of the other studios see new technology and build their movies around them.
Almost all of the big CGI studios use Pixar's software to create their movies. I'm sure Disney does too.
Didn't Pixar do commercials for Chevron before Toy Story?
Great, I can play Doom 3 just when my friend that has it for Windows gets tired of playing it. I think I'm probably going to skip Doom 3. I would have bought if they'd had a much closer release date to the Windows version as they did with Quake 3 and as Blizzard seems to be able to do with all of their games (simultaneous, actually).
Don't you really want the Taskbar to be fixed? Why don't you complain to Microsoft instead of Mozilla? Something like Apple's Dock is way better than the Windows Taskbar.
That just looks horrible. And that is what costumes are about. Looks.
BlingPod from HP
Yes, but the PowerBooks have DVI ports.
The first web server was also developed and run on the same Next.