I've seen your website and appreciate the high quality and creativity of your graphics. Your site is concise and nicely designed.
Besides web design, I've produced 3D animation and post production for architectural renderings and music videos for 15 years, all on PC-based software. Most Mac users insist my work can't be done on a PC, then become very defensive and insulting when I confront them about the shear irrationality of their attitudes.
I'm not interested in banning your platform or telling you what you should be allowed to use for production, but most Mac users I've run across feel the need to ban all PCs and rob everyone else of their choices. Maybe it's more about a smug arrogance and neurosis of control, but that's a pretty big contradiction coming from an outfit that hails itself as being on the forefront of creativity.
Allow me to point out major problems with your "real world" analysis.
Macs are non-existent in the world of server applications; Apple has little if any software addressing those needs.
Despite all the propaganda, most people are using PCs to produce music, and many graphic artists are also PC-based.
Macs need little maintenance because their applications offer so few options, unlike Windows and Linux. It's also ironic you sight UNIX being accessible on Apple's OS. Mac users have been notorious for having a coronary whenever they see a DOS prompt or have to do any command-line typing. UNIX is a superior but vastly more complex OS than DOS.
As to kids being unable to play games, that's because very few game developers have ever been Mac-based, which is further proof of Apple's tiny niche market.
Your claim about Macs getting very few viruses omits the main reason why: so few Apple users exist on the world market that no one can be bothered to write viruses for Macs. In 2008, Mac surpassed Amiga and Otari users on the world market. PCs are over 90%. Also, as soon as anything becomes popular enough, virus writers will hit it. This has already happened with the browser FireFox gaining against Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
I've also never heard of applications "being destroyed" on a PC, other than hard drive failures or other random problems that, in spite of all the propaganda, Macs are just as vulnerable to. I've had just as many crashing problems and other unexplainable wierdnesses occur on Macs as I have on PCs.
Mac users have a tunnel-visioned and distorted view of the web because of Apple's archaic restrictions against media file sharing. Quicktime's play-only format won't allow legally free downloads. Stuff It Expander supposedly gets around this but doesn't address Apple's proprietary file type schemes, which are another built-in impediment that further hedge it's users.
It's also no surprise public school boards are forcing everyone onto Macs. Besides the vast corruption and criminal misuse of taxpayer funds, these outfits are run by radical ideologues who are more interested in indoctrination than education. Apple is perfect for an extremist mindset that encourages control, censorship and a one-side view.
China now welcoming Apple in its country is really a condemnation of both, considering the totalitarian Butchers of Tiananmen Square want a totally restrictive OS to continue controlling its population.
Not all Mac users are bad people, but many share a collective fanaticism and tacitly approve the underhanded tactics of power-hungry Apple operatives, who seem determined to control all computer users and eliminate other platforms. Windows and Linux users I've known would never do that to Mac users if the situation were reversed. A large backlash of hatred for Apple is forming, and many innocent Mac users will find themselves suffering the same discrimination they've used against PC users.
This high school is being placed under the jackboot of an iCult that worships at the altar of Steve Jobs. The Mac-only trend is a systemic problem. What follows is lengthy, but please read if you value the web's free exchange of information, and your own creative freedom of choice.
Here are some facts, not just personal opinions. For years, Apple has been placing its spies in key positions throughout government, media, education and private industry. When ascending to power, they always force their departments into Mac-only environments and invariably deplete budgets for Apple's grossly overpriced products, which offer far fewer capabilities. Many functions are not possible on Macs or very restricted due to the limited options of its software. Apple spies responsible for forcing this Mac-only lunacy will foolishly respond by saying those functions cannot be performed on any platform if Macs can't do them.
I work at a radio station where directors were misled by Apple fanatics who hijacked the IT Department. None of the staff was consulted and all the station's PCs were replaced with iMacs; this has been a total disaster. DJs are no longer able to digitally record their own radio shows! They can no longer dupe station library CDs to use for producing their programs. This is because Apple's dumbed-down OS won't allow standard file sharing, downloading or audio stream recording. Jobs recently made a pact with billionaire music henchman David Geffen to make Mac's already restrictive OS severely hamper these basic functions.
In typical Apple fashion, the IT Department is more concerned with regulating station DJs than answering any of its needs. It's only a matter of time until these Mac fanatics try to ban the broadcast of any music produced on a PC or outside of iTunes.
With internet music, Steve Jobs wants to force everyone into iTunes. But his longer term goal is far more sinister: putting Apple in control of all music publishing, with the power to selectively deny anyone in the world the right to post their own creative work, if it deems.
If this sounds paranoid, do a web search on Lala, an independent music subscription service which Apple purchased and just shut down. With Geffen bankrolling him, Jobs is now in the position to buy and shut down any independent music site he chooses. Paranoid more accurately describes this guy and his nutty Mac followers, who are control freaks out to eliminate freedom of choice.
Apple sights "copyright" concerns to justify its actions, which is totally fraudulent. Most internet music is posted for free download by novice musicians seeking publicity for their work. These are unsigned musicians governed by the Creative Commons Licensing, which says music can be freely downloaded and shared. Apple is using copyright as an excuse to control music publishing the same way record companies have in the past. These are the same companies who've repeatedly ripped off smaller artists for decades by cheating them out of their royalties.
Another Apple-only conspiracy is happening at the University of Southern California (USC), where Mac fanatics are forcing that platform throughout the school. This includes several research departments, whose scientists are throwing a fit at such a stupid decision. Apple offers no software that's needed for their work because much of it includes custom written programs for Unix and other platforms. Never let facts get in the way of a Mac fanatic.
Assisted by media sympathizers, Apple is alleged to have surpassed Microsoft as "tech king." Recent stories in the NY Times and LA Times were written by Apple fanatics, who used that company's grossly overpriced stock price to justify their nutty conclusion. They also omitted key facts, like 90% of all computers sold in 2009 were PCs, and that Apple is non-existent in the server realm.
Other blatant examples of this company's dishonesty include its intransigence against Flash, deliberate incompatibility with other platforms, goofy proprietary
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I've seen your website and appreciate the high quality and creativity of your graphics. Your site is concise and nicely designed.
Besides web design, I've produced 3D animation and post production for architectural renderings and music videos for 15 years, all on PC-based software. Most Mac users insist my work can't be done on a PC, then become very defensive and insulting when I confront them about the shear irrationality of their attitudes.
I'm not interested in banning your platform or telling you what you should be allowed to use for production, but most Mac users I've run across feel the need to ban all PCs and rob everyone else of their choices. Maybe it's more about a smug arrogance and neurosis of control, but that's a pretty big contradiction coming from an outfit that hails itself as being on the forefront of creativity.
Allow me to point out major problems with your "real world" analysis.
Macs are non-existent in the world of server applications; Apple has little if any software addressing those needs.
Despite all the propaganda, most people are using PCs to produce music, and many graphic artists are also PC-based.
Macs need little maintenance because their applications offer so few options, unlike Windows and Linux. It's also ironic you sight UNIX being accessible on Apple's OS. Mac users have been notorious for having a coronary whenever they see a DOS prompt or have to do any command-line typing. UNIX is a superior but vastly more complex OS than DOS.
As to kids being unable to play games, that's because very few game developers have ever been Mac-based, which is further proof of Apple's tiny niche market.
Your claim about Macs getting very few viruses omits the main reason why: so few Apple users exist on the world market that no one can be bothered to write viruses for Macs. In 2008, Mac surpassed Amiga and Otari users on the world market. PCs are over 90%. Also, as soon as anything becomes popular enough, virus writers will hit it. This has already happened with the browser FireFox gaining against Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
I've also never heard of applications "being destroyed" on a PC, other than hard drive failures or other random problems that, in spite of all the propaganda, Macs are just as vulnerable to. I've had just as many crashing problems and other unexplainable wierdnesses occur on Macs as I have on PCs.
Mac users have a tunnel-visioned and distorted view of the web because of Apple's archaic restrictions against media file sharing. Quicktime's play-only format won't allow legally free downloads. Stuff It Expander supposedly gets around this but doesn't address Apple's proprietary file type schemes, which are another built-in impediment that further hedge it's users.
It's also no surprise public school boards are forcing everyone onto Macs. Besides the vast corruption and criminal misuse of taxpayer funds, these outfits are run by radical ideologues who are more interested in indoctrination than education. Apple is perfect for an extremist mindset that encourages control, censorship and a one-side view.
China now welcoming Apple in its country is really a condemnation of both, considering the totalitarian Butchers of Tiananmen Square want a totally restrictive OS to continue controlling its population.
Not all Mac users are bad people, but many share a collective fanaticism and tacitly approve the underhanded tactics of power-hungry Apple operatives, who seem determined to control all computer users and eliminate other platforms. Windows and Linux users I've known would never do that to Mac users if the situation were reversed. A large backlash of hatred for Apple is forming, and many innocent Mac users will find themselves suffering the same discrimination they've used against PC users.
This high school is being placed under the jackboot of an iCult that worships at the altar of Steve Jobs. The Mac-only trend is a systemic problem. What follows is lengthy, but please read if you value the web's free exchange of information, and your own creative freedom of choice.
Here are some facts, not just personal opinions. For years, Apple has been placing its spies in key positions throughout government, media, education and private industry. When ascending to power, they always force their departments into Mac-only environments and invariably deplete budgets for Apple's grossly overpriced products, which offer far fewer capabilities. Many functions are not possible on Macs or very restricted due to the limited options of its software. Apple spies responsible for forcing this Mac-only lunacy will foolishly respond by saying those functions cannot be performed on any platform if Macs can't do them.
I work at a radio station where directors were misled by Apple fanatics who hijacked the IT Department. None of the staff was consulted and all the station's PCs were replaced with iMacs; this has been a total disaster. DJs are no longer able to digitally record their own radio shows! They can no longer dupe station library CDs to use for producing their programs. This is because Apple's dumbed-down OS won't allow standard file sharing, downloading or audio stream recording. Jobs recently made a pact with billionaire music henchman David Geffen to make Mac's already restrictive OS severely hamper these basic functions.
In typical Apple fashion, the IT Department is more concerned with regulating station DJs than answering any of its needs. It's only a matter of time until these Mac fanatics try to ban the broadcast of any music produced on a PC or outside of iTunes.
With internet music, Steve Jobs wants to force everyone into iTunes. But his longer term goal is far more sinister: putting Apple in control of all music publishing, with the power to selectively deny anyone in the world the right to post their own creative work, if it deems.
If this sounds paranoid, do a web search on Lala, an independent music subscription service which Apple purchased and just shut down. With Geffen bankrolling him, Jobs is now in the position to buy and shut down any independent music site he chooses. Paranoid more accurately describes this guy and his nutty Mac followers, who are control freaks out to eliminate freedom of choice.
Apple sights "copyright" concerns to justify its actions, which is totally fraudulent. Most internet music is posted for free download by novice musicians seeking publicity for their work. These are unsigned musicians governed by the Creative Commons Licensing, which says music can be freely downloaded and shared. Apple is using copyright as an excuse to control music publishing the same way record companies have in the past. These are the same companies who've repeatedly ripped off smaller artists for decades by cheating them out of their royalties.
Another Apple-only conspiracy is happening at the University of Southern California (USC), where Mac fanatics are forcing that platform throughout the school. This includes several research departments, whose scientists are throwing a fit at such a stupid decision. Apple offers no software that's needed for their work because much of it includes custom written programs for Unix and other platforms. Never let facts get in the way of a Mac fanatic.
Assisted by media sympathizers, Apple is alleged to have surpassed Microsoft as "tech king." Recent stories in the NY Times and LA Times were written by Apple fanatics, who used that company's grossly overpriced stock price to justify their nutty conclusion. They also omitted key facts, like 90% of all computers sold in 2009 were PCs, and that Apple is non-existent in the server realm.
Other blatant examples of this company's dishonesty include its intransigence against Flash, deliberate incompatibility with other platforms, goofy proprietary