Even the macs of today meet most of the criteria of the AntiMac article, and MacOSX will be closer than anything else available. Quasi language file and object manipulation, system level and user level network aware agents, thumbnailing files, shared control, defining file importance and other meta information. All dependent upon user setup. Yes, we all want a car that drives itself, but only when we ask it too and where we tell it to. A lot of the free software glitz comes from the fact that savvy users customize their computers. An out of the box installation of any OS will never compare to _your_ fine tuned and highly customized system. The same for mac as any other, but less people customize their MacOS or Windows machines because less are computer savvy. One final point is that a lot of the AntiMac stuff is a lot more demanding of users without that much gain. You can already do a lot of these things if you take the time. Either people organize their computers or they dont. Applying importance or comments or whatever other meta information requires user input or it does the user no good. The AntiMac stuff seems to ask that a computer organize itself, but if your room cleaned itself could you find anything more easily than if it was all just on the floor. Any computer today can manage a lot of files and information, locally and across a network, but even today it comes down to the user organizing their information in such a way that they can remeber where they put things. Mac is the AntiMac. It just has a steep learning curve before you notice.
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Even the macs of today meet most of the criteria of the AntiMac article, and MacOSX will be closer than anything else available. Quasi language file and object manipulation, system level and user level network aware agents, thumbnailing files, shared control, defining file importance and other meta information. All dependent upon user setup. Yes, we all want a car that drives itself, but only when we ask it too and where we tell it to. A lot of the free software glitz comes from the fact that savvy users customize their computers. An out of the box installation of any OS will never compare to _your_ fine tuned and highly customized system. The same for mac as any other, but less people customize their MacOS or Windows machines because less are computer savvy. One final point is that a lot of the AntiMac stuff is a lot more demanding of users without that much gain. You can already do a lot of these things if you take the time. Either people organize their computers or they dont. Applying importance or comments or whatever other meta information requires user input or it does the user no good. The AntiMac stuff seems to ask that a computer organize itself, but if your room cleaned itself could you find anything more easily than if it was all just on the floor. Any computer today can manage a lot of files and information, locally and across a network, but even today it comes down to the user organizing their information in such a way that they can remeber where they put things. Mac is the AntiMac. It just has a steep learning curve before you notice.