You seem to be predicating your argument on the OS and the processor. Come on, its 2004, competitive high-end desktops have to have bleeding edge video (hint - the iMac doesn't), redundant storage, gobs of memory (2GB minimum), and the ability to conveniently use your own kick-ass display.
AT 256MB, the standard RAM allotment will not be adequate for most people. Note that if you upgrade via the Apple Store, by Apple's return policies the box is now a "custom build" and cannot be returned. Since the RAM seems to have been lowballed almost by design, it seems there is a concerted effort to minimize returns.
Is the party running the server going to be reliable and capable of handling load? It'll take a Google or a Yahoo adopting truly open calendaring to make this happen. As a stricly client-side app I agree this is useless.
Server-side bookmarking, calendaring, IMAP...where is my open standards serving company?
Its nice to see more standards compliant calendar browsers out there, but whats key is that server side solutions (Yahoo Calendar) adopt open standards so we can share calendar data, which to me is the entire point. To me this type of application is mostly about advertising when I am and am not available...so sharing with other calendaring clients is crucial.
Gmail, Yahoo Briefcase, blah blah there are a dozen ways to upload all of the "you life depends on it" data to disaster-proof service.
If you are in business you should be using something like DataSafe, who will take your backup tapes and put them in very safe keeping should you need them.
I am an avid reader of most of what comes out of the Mises institute, which is often listed at SafeHaven.com, a bearish commentary site.
Their point is that fiat currencies are subject to abuse as they are not secured to a physical entity which limits its growth.
Note that for for one hundred years prior to the existance of The Fed, the purchasing value of a dollar was virtually unchanged!
Post Fed, post gold standard, post secured currency, the value of the dollar's purchasing power has dropped 97%. With Greenspan's current uber-loose credit scheme and our fractioanl reserve (aka fractional safety) banking system, this has vastly increased the amount of money circulating even in the last decade, secured now mostly by residential real estate.
Assume that one is out of the office, on vacation, sick, or otherwise busy at all times. Then you need two people as the core staff available at all times, which is probably a minimum to get stuff done.
This has nothing to do with Mac tech support issues - anything in business typically must be staffed for three or more people to cover all contingencies.
If you are sane and want more RAM then you will aos be unable to return the computer as Apple will deem it "custom". So they cut down on returns by crippling the default model.
The one button mouse lost. If you have to go to the keyboard to get extra functionality (Apple users do), then its time to buck up and admit that the one button design simply is no longer useful.
My company already has many trained Windows admins on staff. It has no Mac admins. To adopt Macs we must hire at least three to keep things going. Thats over $500k in wages and benefits (healthcare, etc) per year in Bay Area money. And we wills till have to employ the Windows admins.
HP does sell a lot of PCs - to big business. Not one of these will go out the door with an iPod in the box. No consumer will touch it - it stinks of uncool.
No one will buy these, they stink of lameness. Seriously, the cool factor isn't zero on these, its actually negative...it s like the kid wearing the knockoff sneakers at school - he would have actually been better off not trying than going with the ripoff brand.
Every six months they get tossed for clean replacements. I mean clean literally, the keyboards in particular gather a ridiculous amount of muck, crumbs, etc.
The software business is already oversaturated with people trying to sell code. Its a dead end, and this is why every diversified IT firm is going into services and why MSFT can't get above $30 to save its life.
If you churn out idiotware you will invariably lose the interest of developer types, and the end result might be less code.
Also, the reality is that people need to think more like computers. You cannot be a blathering idiot and expect and optimal experience from any piece of electronics or software. Don't cite OSX or Windows, they also manifest deep system details at high levels.
Yes we can hide, obscure and wrap in metaphors, but this implies a loss of control, which I am not sure most of the actual users of this code want.
However, if developers choose not to adhere to these guidelines, there's little that can be done
But Apple could have easily prevented this by going with one look and not implementing other options. Of course the Aqua look seems so child-like and annoying that I see why they have tried to change course post-release.
Its bad enough that Metal and Aqua are mixed interchangably without any rhyme or reason...mix in X11 apps and now Windows apps and I think we can safely say that visual consistency in OSX is gone.
Of course the paucity of applications must be addressed in some manner - its quite clear that many ISVs are not addressing OSX or have any plans on doing so as it meanders around 3% market share.
I'm continually amazed at how OSX has reached the unassailable status of Google, Linus, etc in the/. mindspace. My wife purchased a new system that manifested numerous oddities and inconsistencies that I would have though Apple would have dealt with. For starters - a second disk installed by Apple for which my wife did not have write access. Duh! Make preinstalled hardware work the way users think it should. When she went to repair this, I was asked "what is group wheel?" To which I replied it is something a Mac user should never have to know about. The unix stuff is still showing up in odd places.
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At least GNOME is consistent - can you tell me why some OSX apps use metal, some use aqua? Its not clear there is any rhyme or reason. Also the use of a nonfree compression utility. If I can't download a free multiplatform version of the compressor (Stuffit), then go back to square one. Or maybe exposing unix file ownerships and groups and other multiuser aspects of the system to novices who have no idea. Or the best - requiring that the user drag uncompressed application to the Application folder. Hint - the OS already knows its an app or it wouldn't have told me. Even GNOME knows better.
Meanwhile in the rest of the Western world, a startling tactic for maintaining homeland security has been in use for decades - do not screw over people in foreign lands for fun and profit and you will tend not to make enemies.
I am tired of the miliporn covered on/., its getting to be like Popular Science. Not one of these billion dollar toys could prevent twenty halfwits armed with boxcutters pulling the US economy down to its knees and dragging the entire nation into a paranoid delusion that is likely to last decades.
There isn't enough public history of this company to even merit speculation based on fundamentals. Its hype, then growth, then maybe numbers. In that order.
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You seem to be predicating your argument on the OS and the processor. Come on, its 2004, competitive high-end desktops have to have bleeding edge video (hint - the iMac doesn't), redundant storage, gobs of memory (2GB minimum), and the ability to conveniently use your own kick-ass display.
That is no excuse for a very anti-consumer policy, particularly since Apple prides itself on customer care. Most PC vendors are far more accomodating.
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AT 256MB, the standard RAM allotment will not be adequate for most people. Note that if you upgrade via the Apple Store, by Apple's return policies the box is now a "custom build" and cannot be returned. Since the RAM seems to have been lowballed almost by design, it seems there is a concerted effort to minimize returns.
Server-side bookmarking, calendaring, IMAP...where is my open standards serving company?
Its nice to see more standards compliant calendar browsers out there, but whats key is that server side solutions (Yahoo Calendar) adopt open standards so we can share calendar data, which to me is the entire point. To me this type of application is mostly about advertising when I am and am not available...so sharing with other calendaring clients is crucial.
If you are in business you should be using something like DataSafe, who will take your backup tapes and put them in very safe keeping should you need them.
Their point is that fiat currencies are subject to abuse as they are not secured to a physical entity which limits its growth.
Note that for for one hundred years prior to the existance of The Fed, the purchasing value of a dollar was virtually unchanged!
Post Fed, post gold standard, post secured currency, the value of the dollar's purchasing power has dropped 97%. With Greenspan's current uber-loose credit scheme and our fractioanl reserve (aka fractional safety) banking system, this has vastly increased the amount of money circulating even in the last decade, secured now mostly by residential real estate.
If you can get away with two, you need three. Periodically people do go on vacation and get sick.
Assume that one is out of the office, on vacation, sick, or otherwise busy at all times. Then you need two people as the core staff available at all times, which is probably a minimum to get stuff done.
This has nothing to do with Mac tech support issues - anything in business typically must be staffed for three or more people to cover all contingencies.
If you are sane and want more RAM then you will aos be unable to return the computer as Apple will deem it "custom". So they cut down on returns by crippling the default model.
The one button mouse lost. If you have to go to the keyboard to get extra functionality (Apple users do), then its time to buck up and admit that the one button design simply is no longer useful.
Where is the cost savings again?
HP will sell them at the exact specs and the excat prices as Apple, and this will not be negotiable.
HP does sell a lot of PCs - to big business. Not one of these will go out the door with an iPod in the box. No consumer will touch it - it stinks of uncool.
No one will buy these, they stink of lameness. Seriously, the cool factor isn't zero on these, its actually negative...it s like the kid wearing the knockoff sneakers at school - he would have actually been better off not trying than going with the ripoff brand.
Every six months they get tossed for clean replacements. I mean clean literally, the keyboards in particular gather a ridiculous amount of muck, crumbs, etc.
The software business is already oversaturated with people trying to sell code. Its a dead end, and this is why every diversified IT firm is going into services and why MSFT can't get above $30 to save its life.
Unabashed NO!
Most of the people in the US can't drive a stick, but if you want a BMW M5 to perform optimally you had better learn!
I would rather have performant software that meets my needs, and judging by the number of linux/gnome users out there, many others feel the same.
For everyone else there already is Windows. I want an alternative to Windows, not a clone.
Also, the reality is that people need to think more like computers. You cannot be a blathering idiot and expect and optimal experience from any piece of electronics or software. Don't cite OSX or Windows, they also manifest deep system details at high levels.
Yes we can hide, obscure and wrap in metaphors, but this implies a loss of control, which I am not sure most of the actual users of this code want.
But Apple could have easily prevented this by going with one look and not implementing other options. Of course the Aqua look seems so child-like and annoying that I see why they have tried to change course post-release.
Of course the paucity of applications must be addressed in some manner - its quite clear that many ISVs are not addressing OSX or have any plans on doing so as it meanders around 3% market share.
I'm continually amazed at how OSX has reached the unassailable status of Google, Linus, etc in the /. mindspace. My wife purchased a new system that manifested numerous oddities and inconsistencies that I would have though Apple would have dealt with. For starters - a second disk installed by Apple for which my wife did not have write access. Duh! Make preinstalled hardware work the way users think it should. When she went to repair this, I was asked "what is group wheel?" To which I replied it is something a Mac user should never have to know about. The unix stuff is still showing up in odd places.
At least GNOME is consistent - can you tell me why some OSX apps use metal, some use aqua? Its not clear there is any rhyme or reason. Also the use of a nonfree compression utility. If I can't download a free multiplatform version of the compressor (Stuffit), then go back to square one. Or maybe exposing unix file ownerships and groups and other multiuser aspects of the system to novices who have no idea. Or the best - requiring that the user drag uncompressed application to the Application folder. Hint - the OS already knows its an app or it wouldn't have told me. Even GNOME knows better.
I am tired of the miliporn covered on /., its getting to be like Popular Science. Not one of these billion dollar toys could prevent twenty halfwits armed with boxcutters pulling the US economy down to its knees and dragging the entire nation into a paranoid delusion that is likely to last decades.
There isn't enough public history of this company to even merit speculation based on fundamentals. Its hype, then growth, then maybe numbers. In that order.