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IBM didn't "allow" jack shit... they just couldn't legally prevent the PC from being cloned.
IBM was essentially done in by their own greed. They threw together a computer with all off-the-shelf parts in a single year, solely because they wanted a piece of the consumer market that was then essentially owned by the Apple II.
The only proprietary thing in the original PC was the BIOS. Once the BIOS was reverse engineered, that was it for IBM. In 1987, they tried to wrest control of the hardware market back from the cloners with the Micro Channel Architecture in the first PS/2 systems-- it was about as successful as trying to remove the pee from a swimming pool.
IIRC, repair parts are only supposed to be available to Apple Authorized Service Centers. At any rate, they (things like logic boards, at least) are very expensive to buy-- the service center gets a credit when they return the bad parts they replace. I believe that pricing structure is in place solely to make it prohibitively expensive to roll your own Mac with purchased service parts.
And Apple is far from the only company that does something like that. You think service parts purchased legitimately from a Chevrolet dealer will let you assemble your own Corvette for less than the normal price of a factory-built one? Hell, no!
Like the previous guy who replied, I too have heard rumors that Apple is working on an Office suite. Shouldn't be too hard, they just need to separate and pump up the components of AppleWorks and add Keynote into the mix.
Also, if you think about it, Apple already has most of the components they'd need to make their own version of Outlook/Exchange. Mix together Mail, Address Book, and iCal, and you've basically got Outlook's features. They would just need to cook up a server app to handle the stuff on that end. It wouldn't surprise me one bit if this was being worked on. There are plenty of smaller companies who need groupware but if given a choice would not bend over and pay Microsoft's extortionate prices for Outlook/Exchange.
No, and there won't be a version of Outlook, per se. Microsoft will be releasing (this summer, last I heard) a version of Entourage X that has Exchange connectivity features.
For now, people are making do with running Outlook 2001 in Classic (if they need group calendaring), or running the existing Entourage X with POP/SMTP or IMAP enabled on their Exchange server (if they don't need group calendaring).
I'm no Microsoft fan, but I do use Entourage because it's essentially the OS X-native grandson of Claris Emailer-- developed by the same people, hired by MS after Emailer was killed.
I was not slamming/mocking Apple for only shipping a single-button mouse. I'm typing this post on my G4. All I was saying is, based on their nomenclature changes they might be about to ship one with their new towers.
In my opinion at least... the previous Quicksilver was the best looking of the bunch.
Hear, hear! I too dislike the aesthetics of the MDD G4. When hardware upgrade time finally rolled around last year, I waited patiently until Apple unveiled their updated models in August. And after I saw them, my trusty G4-upgraded 7600 was replaced by a used QuickSilver 733 with a SuperDrive, purchased on eBay.
Honestly, though, I also thought the MDD G4 was like a placeholder system-- something that was shipped only so Apple could have something new to ship because the "real stuff" wasn't ready for prime time. It has features that it doesn't take full advantage of, and I didn't think it was sufficiently more bang for my buck. When initial reports came back that the thing sounded like a jet engine, I felt even better about my Quicksilver, which is in my bedroom and runs quietly enough for me to sleep five feet away.
Continue to ship the 1-button/no-button mouse reasoning if folks want more buttons they can spend $10 for another mouse, the OS already supports the other buttons.
I think the days of the one-button mouse may be coming to an end, at least partially. Apple's consumer systems recently started shipping with new keyboards and mice. I don't remember if they did this with the keyboard, but what once said "Pro Mouse" on its underside now says just "Mouse." The only other discernible difference between the two are that Mouse lacks the 3-position click tension adjustment ring that Pro Mouse had. It stands to reason that new towers (what Apple considers their "pro" line) will ship with a new "Pro Mouse"-- and pros know what to do with multiple buttons and scroll wheels. Maybe Apple will really let loose and even unveil a new "Pro Keyboard" with extra programmable buttons or something.
and how is this different than the Ballmer going to Europe to pursuade people to use windows?
RTFA, dummy. This grant is coming from a nonprofit organization, not directly from Apple. Ballmer's "persuasion," on the other hand, comes directly from a Microsoft slush fund.
The $43K grant was presumably open to all qualified schools, with a single winner. The Microsoft slush fund only comes into play when a subsidy is needed to block non-MS products from being purchased somewhere, with a single winner: Microsoft.
Apple releases some new hardware every 3-6 months. 970 rumors have been around for over a year now.
Yeah, but the G4 towers are loooooong overdue for a major revamp, and within the last two or three days Apple has released the lawyers on a couple rumor sites who had some fairly detailed writeups about forthcoming 970-based machines. Apple may not comment on unreleased products, but when the Cease & Desist orders start flying, it usually means the rumor sites got a little too much correct.
Either way, we find out in less than two weeks, and it won't kill anyone who's in the market for a new Mac to wait that much longer-- but it might kill them if they buy one of the current G4s and a week later Apple releases brand new machines with significantly more bang for the same buck. (Okay, it won't kill them, but they'll probably be pretty pissed off.:-)
Actually, I did this to American Express. Long story short, there was some form of fraud going on where before I even received the card in the mail, someone put four different balance transfers totalling around $12K on it. Somehow after I just about got it all cleared up a year or so later, AMEX insisted I still owed them $38 or so. I sent it to the CEO, in pennies, with a nasty letter and a baggie containing the pulverized fragments of my then-cancelled card.
They accepted the payment, but I never got any sort of formal apology for the monumental fuck-up-- but they sure got the message that I was pissed.
I like using the BT headset with my phone, so my idea for auto sound system integration was not for handsfree purposes, but to just mute or lower the sound system volume automatically when a call is initiated/answered. If you're going to build Bluetooth into a car stereo, though, you might as well include both of the options.
I must say I do like the automatic detection of the driver and setting of the personal preferences, though. You've clearly been thinking about the application of BT more than I have.
I had one of those headsets, it was dead more often than not because you HAVE to remember to recharge it.
I never found this to be a problem. I hook up the phone and headset every night-- I keep the chargers where I keep my wallet and keys, so it's not too tough to remember to plug the stuff in when I empty my pockets at night. I've had them since January and never ran out of juice yet on either one.
Currently, the iBook will tell the phone to initiate the call or to accept the incoming call-- you still have to use the handset to actually speak to the person on the other end. When I last tried it, I couldn't use my headset with the phone while it was connected to the iBook.
I expect that eventually the integration will be tightened up a bit so the Mac will channel the calls through its mic and speakers, or through a paired Bluetooth headset.
I've got a T68i. It syncs with Entourage on both my Power Mac and my iBook. It acts as a modem for my iBook when I need it. It interacts beautifully with the Address Book app on both Macs, letting me make and take calls and send and receive SMS. It works great with my Plantronics M1000 headset, letting me make and take calls in the car without having to take my eyes off the road, fumble around for the handset, or worry about catching wires on anything. And it does all of these things while still sitting in my pocket.
Bluetooth may not be perfect in its current incarnation, but it's a damn sight better than keying in all my contacts with a numeric keypad, or having to buy a stupid proprietary cable to connect the phone to anything.
You need to take a remedial reading comprehension class.
I don't know, and I never claimed to know, what Apple's motivation was for announcing the iMac in May '98 but not shipping it until August '98. They just did it that way. Maybe they had something they could show in May, but it still needed a bit more tinkering under the hood before they could actually ship it. Maybe they needed the time to ramp up production capability to meet expected demand. Maybe Steve Jobs had a dream where a weird, naked Indian told him to just not ship until August 15. I don't fucking know, and I never said I did. All I said was that a three-month delay existed between Apple saying "Hey, we've got this iMac," and people being able to get their hands on one from a retail establishment.
And if Apple doesn't announce products before they're ready to ship, why did they announce Jaguar on July 17 last year, but not ship it until August 24? The Jaguar build number on the display Macs I played with in Apple's booth at MWNY on July 17, 2002 was not the same as the build number on the final shipping copy of Jaguar I bought on August 24, 2002-- clearly, more work was done on Jaguar after the announcement.
And if you're so sure you're right, stop hiding behind the AC and post with your account.
Yeah, that guy who blindly told me I was wrong when I could prove I was right, boy, he sure got my number! Whew!
This is supposed to be a discussion forum. If you don't know what the fuck you're talking about with regard to a particular topic, you may want to rethink posting in that discussion-- especially if it's to tell someone else they're wrong.
Yeah, I get indignant when someone tells me I'm wrong and I know for a fact I'm right-- so sue me.
No, see, little boys dispute assertions in posts on/. without posting appropriate links to back up their position-- that's what you did. I'm an adult, who posted links to facts I knew to be true when someone disputed them.
Secondly, what I pointed out was people discussing the unusual, Apple-planned, three-month delay between announcement and shipping. Considering the overwhelming success of the iMac, it was hardly a disaster.
Thirdly, I did not say they should do it now. The original post, paraphrased, said "Maybe they'll announce now and ship then-- they have done it before. BUT, I think it would be a bad move this time."
I'll accept your name-calling to duck being proven wrong as an apology for being an asshole. Have a nice day.:-)
Apple had no plans to ship until August. Jobs himself said at the intro something to the effect of "while we are announcing it today, it will not be available for sale until August." I clearly remember this, and I wish I could find a video clip of it, but this text of a Don Crabb article posted on usenet will have to suffice.
A three month delay from announcement to shipping is extremely rare, but not unprecedented. And you'll notice that I *also* said in my post that in this case it would not make sense for them to do that because of the bad timing.
Now, please, let's see your proof that the original iMac announced on May 6, 1998, was slated to be shipped immediately.
History is repeating itself. This is what, the third year now of "the G5 is about to be released?"... This is exactly what happened to Osborne.
Uh, no. It was Osborne himself who torpedoed sales of his current model by saying how great the forthcoming one would be. History would only be repeating itself if Steve Jobs had been saying for three years that the G5 would be coming soon and would be significantly better than the current G4s. The rumor sites can say whatever they want, but the official word comes from Apple, who do not comment on unannounced products (except maybe indirectly, by sending in the lawyers when a rumor site is a little too spot-on, or has photos/screenshots they shouldn't).
The bottom line is, buy a computer when you really need one-- there's ALWAYS a better one just around the corner, and you must learn to accept that. If you insist on including the word of the rumor sites in your purchase plans, make what they say a consideration, but not THE consideration.
Who's to say Apple will announce it now, but not ship it until Panther debuts? Apple announced and demonstrated the original iMac (IIRC) in May 1998, but did not actually begin shipping until August of that year-- I may not have the dates exactly right, but there were certainly at least two months between announcement and availability. And that was not an instance of Jobs saying "This is available now," but product not shipping until weeks later because they couldn't ramp up production quickly enough. It was a stated two or three month delay from the start.
I think that this time, however, Apple would be doing the right thing to release the G5 ASAP-- that way the hardware will be available during back-to-school time, one of Apple's busiest sales periods. If they do the announce-and-wait thing this time, they'll miss the back-to-school sales. They'll also piss off a lot of people who just blew their wad in August on a G4 with significantly less computing power for about the same money that now buys a G5.
As long as everyone who buys a G5 gets a voucher in the box for a free upgrade to 10.3, I see no problem with shipping the hardware a few months before the OS that takes full advantage of it debuts.
Admit that your security problems are a direct result of your insistance in violating the #1 rule of software design: YOU NEVER MIX CODE AND DATA TOGETHER. You have specifically engineered every product you sell to be scriptable. STOP IT!
For years Apple has had AppleScript, an extremely powerful scripting language. Almost every worthwhile Mac application is scriptable. In all the years that AppleScript has been around, how many times has this been exploited? Once, and it was a pretty poor job.
The problem is not the scriptability of Microsoft's products, it's just that they chose to make it a gee-whiz feature and get it out in the marketplace, instead of taking the time and doing it right.
They drag their asses for years and leave the G4 stuck in the doldrums, making Apple (read: Steve Jobs) look bad. Now that Apple is most likely going to take their business to a vendor who is interested in meeting the needs of their client (what a concept!), Motorola's getting interested in competing again? Please!
It's way too late for that-- the die has been cast, and more than likely has been since the first generation of "we can't get faster CPUs, so we put in two CPUs" Power Mac G4s. Spend your development money on more uber-annoying "Hello Moto" ads, and leave the CPU business to companies who are serious about it, ya friggin' tards.
Yeah, that is some pretty poor wording. Maybe something like: "the thief will soon discover that the machine has no black market resale value."
Of course, they also contradict themselves by saying "you won't lose any, because it can't work by itself"-- think about this. If some crackheads break into your offices, they're gonna grab as many of these things as they can carry. I doubt one of them will go, "Hey, wait, these are NETWORK computers!" And once the crackheads find out the things don't work, they'll end up in a dumpster, a rvier, or some muddy vacant lot.
Of course, who's to say these things didn't come with window stickers that say "Computers will not work if removed from premises."?:-)
Bottom line, if a computer gets stolen, whether it works or not once it's off your premises, it's probably gone forever. The only plus side is that since it's a network computer, your valuable data won't be taken out the door unless the crackheads make off with your server as well.
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IBM didn't "allow" jack shit... they just couldn't legally prevent the PC from being cloned.
IBM was essentially done in by their own greed. They threw together a computer with all off-the-shelf parts in a single year, solely because they wanted a piece of the consumer market that was then essentially owned by the Apple II.
The only proprietary thing in the original PC was the BIOS. Once the BIOS was reverse engineered, that was it for IBM. In 1987, they tried to wrest control of the hardware market back from the cloners with the Micro Channel Architecture in the first PS/2 systems-- it was about as successful as trying to remove the pee from a swimming pool.
Read more about it.
~Philly
IIRC, repair parts are only supposed to be available to Apple Authorized Service Centers. At any rate, they (things like logic boards, at least) are very expensive to buy-- the service center gets a credit when they return the bad parts they replace. I believe that pricing structure is in place solely to make it prohibitively expensive to roll your own Mac with purchased service parts.
And Apple is far from the only company that does something like that. You think service parts purchased legitimately from a Chevrolet dealer will let you assemble your own Corvette for less than the normal price of a factory-built one? Hell, no!
~Philly
Like the previous guy who replied, I too have heard rumors that Apple is working on an Office suite. Shouldn't be too hard, they just need to separate and pump up the components of AppleWorks and add Keynote into the mix.
Also, if you think about it, Apple already has most of the components they'd need to make their own version of Outlook/Exchange. Mix together Mail, Address Book, and iCal, and you've basically got Outlook's features. They would just need to cook up a server app to handle the stuff on that end. It wouldn't surprise me one bit if this was being worked on. There are plenty of smaller companies who need groupware but if given a choice would not bend over and pay Microsoft's extortionate prices for Outlook/Exchange.
~Philly
Did they ever bother to port Outlook to OS X?
No, and there won't be a version of Outlook, per se. Microsoft will be releasing (this summer, last I heard) a version of Entourage X that has Exchange connectivity features.
For now, people are making do with running Outlook 2001 in Classic (if they need group calendaring), or running the existing Entourage X with POP/SMTP or IMAP enabled on their Exchange server (if they don't need group calendaring).
I'm no Microsoft fan, but I do use Entourage because it's essentially the OS X-native grandson of Claris Emailer-- developed by the same people, hired by MS after Emailer was killed.
~Philly
Chill out, rabid fanboy!
I was not slamming/mocking Apple for only shipping a single-button mouse. I'm typing this post on my G4. All I was saying is, based on their nomenclature changes they might be about to ship one with their new towers.
~Philly
In my opinion at least ... the previous Quicksilver was the best looking of the bunch.
Hear, hear! I too dislike the aesthetics of the MDD G4. When hardware upgrade time finally rolled around last year, I waited patiently until Apple unveiled their updated models in August. And after I saw them, my trusty G4-upgraded 7600 was replaced by a used QuickSilver 733 with a SuperDrive, purchased on eBay.
Honestly, though, I also thought the MDD G4 was like a placeholder system-- something that was shipped only so Apple could have something new to ship because the "real stuff" wasn't ready for prime time. It has features that it doesn't take full advantage of, and I didn't think it was sufficiently more bang for my buck. When initial reports came back that the thing sounded like a jet engine, I felt even better about my Quicksilver, which is in my bedroom and runs quietly enough for me to sleep five feet away.
~Philly
Continue to ship the 1-button/no-button mouse reasoning if folks want more buttons they can spend $10 for another mouse, the OS already supports the other buttons.
I think the days of the one-button mouse may be coming to an end, at least partially. Apple's consumer systems recently started shipping with new keyboards and mice. I don't remember if they did this with the keyboard, but what once said "Pro Mouse" on its underside now says just "Mouse." The only other discernible difference between the two are that Mouse lacks the 3-position click tension adjustment ring that Pro Mouse had. It stands to reason that new towers (what Apple considers their "pro" line) will ship with a new "Pro Mouse"-- and pros know what to do with multiple buttons and scroll wheels. Maybe Apple will really let loose and even unveil a new "Pro Keyboard" with extra programmable buttons or something.
~Philly
and how is this different than the Ballmer going to Europe to pursuade people to use windows?
RTFA, dummy. This grant is coming from a nonprofit organization, not directly from Apple. Ballmer's "persuasion," on the other hand, comes directly from a Microsoft slush fund.
The $43K grant was presumably open to all qualified schools, with a single winner. The Microsoft slush fund only comes into play when a subsidy is needed to block non-MS products from being purchased somewhere, with a single winner: Microsoft.
~Philly
Apple releases some new hardware every 3-6 months. 970 rumors have been around for over a year now.
:-)
Yeah, but the G4 towers are loooooong overdue for a major revamp, and within the last two or three days Apple has released the lawyers on a couple rumor sites who had some fairly detailed writeups about forthcoming 970-based machines. Apple may not comment on unreleased products, but when the Cease & Desist orders start flying, it usually means the rumor sites got a little too much correct.
Either way, we find out in less than two weeks, and it won't kill anyone who's in the market for a new Mac to wait that much longer-- but it might kill them if they buy one of the current G4s and a week later Apple releases brand new machines with significantly more bang for the same buck. (Okay, it won't kill them, but they'll probably be pretty pissed off.
~Philly
Heh... you say that as if Quark 6.0 will even be usable in 10.2! I know from experience that .0 versions of Quark always suck.
Still, it's one less reason to have to keep Classic around. Now then, Microsoft, where the fuck is my OS X-native Outlook client???
~Philly
Because I don't think the Pentium chips really "make the Internet faster."
~Philly
Actually, I did this to American Express. Long story short, there was some form of fraud going on where before I even received the card in the mail, someone put four different balance transfers totalling around $12K on it. Somehow after I just about got it all cleared up a year or so later, AMEX insisted I still owed them $38 or so. I sent it to the CEO, in pennies, with a nasty letter and a baggie containing the pulverized fragments of my then-cancelled card.
They accepted the payment, but I never got any sort of formal apology for the monumental fuck-up-- but they sure got the message that I was pissed.
~Philly
I like using the BT headset with my phone, so my idea for auto sound system integration was not for handsfree purposes, but to just mute or lower the sound system volume automatically when a call is initiated/answered. If you're going to build Bluetooth into a car stereo, though, you might as well include both of the options.
I must say I do like the automatic detection of the driver and setting of the personal preferences, though. You've clearly been thinking about the application of BT more than I have.
~Philly
I had one of those headsets, it was dead more often than not because you HAVE to remember to recharge it.
I never found this to be a problem. I hook up the phone and headset every night-- I keep the chargers where I keep my wallet and keys, so it's not too tough to remember to plug the stuff in when I empty my pockets at night. I've had them since January and never ran out of juice yet on either one.
~Philly
Currently, the iBook will tell the phone to initiate the call or to accept the incoming call-- you still have to use the handset to actually speak to the person on the other end. When I last tried it, I couldn't use my headset with the phone while it was connected to the iBook.
I expect that eventually the integration will be tightened up a bit so the Mac will channel the calls through its mic and speakers, or through a paired Bluetooth headset.
~Philly
I've got a T68i. It syncs with Entourage on both my Power Mac and my iBook. It acts as a modem for my iBook when I need it. It interacts beautifully with the Address Book app on both Macs, letting me make and take calls and send and receive SMS. It works great with my Plantronics M1000 headset, letting me make and take calls in the car without having to take my eyes off the road, fumble around for the handset, or worry about catching wires on anything. And it does all of these things while still sitting in my pocket.
Bluetooth may not be perfect in its current incarnation, but it's a damn sight better than keying in all my contacts with a numeric keypad, or having to buy a stupid proprietary cable to connect the phone to anything.
~Philly
You need to take a remedial reading comprehension class.
I don't know, and I never claimed to know, what Apple's motivation was for announcing the iMac in May '98 but not shipping it until August '98. They just did it that way. Maybe they had something they could show in May, but it still needed a bit more tinkering under the hood before they could actually ship it. Maybe they needed the time to ramp up production capability to meet expected demand. Maybe Steve Jobs had a dream where a weird, naked Indian told him to just not ship until August 15. I don't fucking know, and I never said I did. All I said was that a three-month delay existed between Apple saying "Hey, we've got this iMac," and people being able to get their hands on one from a retail establishment.
And if Apple doesn't announce products before they're ready to ship, why did they announce Jaguar on July 17 last year, but not ship it until August 24? The Jaguar build number on the display Macs I played with in Apple's booth at MWNY on July 17, 2002 was not the same as the build number on the final shipping copy of Jaguar I bought on August 24, 2002-- clearly, more work was done on Jaguar after the announcement.
And if you're so sure you're right, stop hiding behind the AC and post with your account.
~Philly
Yeah, that guy who blindly told me I was wrong when I could prove I was right, boy, he sure got my number! Whew!
This is supposed to be a discussion forum. If you don't know what the fuck you're talking about with regard to a particular topic, you may want to rethink posting in that discussion-- especially if it's to tell someone else they're wrong.
Yeah, I get indignant when someone tells me I'm wrong and I know for a fact I'm right-- so sue me.
~Philly
No, see, little boys dispute assertions in posts on /. without posting appropriate links to back up their position-- that's what you did. I'm an adult, who posted links to facts I knew to be true when someone disputed them.
:-)
Secondly, what I pointed out was people discussing the unusual, Apple-planned, three-month delay between announcement and shipping. Considering the overwhelming success of the iMac, it was hardly a disaster.
Thirdly, I did not say they should do it now. The original post, paraphrased, said "Maybe they'll announce now and ship then-- they have done it before. BUT, I think it would be a bad move this time."
I'll accept your name-calling to duck being proven wrong as an apology for being an asshole. Have a nice day.
Dude, I am absolutely NOT wrong.
"announced 1998.05.06; North American release on 1998.08.15 at $1,299; replaced by Revision B in mid-October 1998"
Apple had no plans to ship until August. Jobs himself said at the intro something to the effect of "while we are announcing it today, it will not be available for sale until August." I clearly remember this, and I wish I could find a video clip of it, but this text of a Don Crabb article posted on usenet will have to suffice.
If you don't believe me, search Google groups for "imac" with a date range of the month of May, 1998. Here's a small thread I found where people question the stated long delay between announcement and shipping.
A three month delay from announcement to shipping is extremely rare, but not unprecedented. And you'll notice that I *also* said in my post that in this case it would not make sense for them to do that because of the bad timing.
Now, please, let's see your proof that the original iMac announced on May 6, 1998, was slated to be shipped immediately.
~Philly
History is repeating itself. This is what, the third year now of "the G5 is about to be released?" ... This is exactly what happened to Osborne.
Uh, no. It was Osborne himself who torpedoed sales of his current model by saying how great the forthcoming one would be. History would only be repeating itself if Steve Jobs had been saying for three years that the G5 would be coming soon and would be significantly better than the current G4s. The rumor sites can say whatever they want, but the official word comes from Apple, who do not comment on unannounced products (except maybe indirectly, by sending in the lawyers when a rumor site is a little too spot-on, or has photos/screenshots they shouldn't).
The bottom line is, buy a computer when you really need one-- there's ALWAYS a better one just around the corner, and you must learn to accept that. If you insist on including the word of the rumor sites in your purchase plans, make what they say a consideration, but not THE consideration.
~Philly
Who's to say Apple will announce it now, but not ship it until Panther debuts? Apple announced and demonstrated the original iMac (IIRC) in May 1998, but did not actually begin shipping until August of that year-- I may not have the dates exactly right, but there were certainly at least two months between announcement and availability. And that was not an instance of Jobs saying "This is available now," but product not shipping until weeks later because they couldn't ramp up production quickly enough. It was a stated two or three month delay from the start.
I think that this time, however, Apple would be doing the right thing to release the G5 ASAP-- that way the hardware will be available during back-to-school time, one of Apple's busiest sales periods. If they do the announce-and-wait thing this time, they'll miss the back-to-school sales. They'll also piss off a lot of people who just blew their wad in August on a G4 with significantly less computing power for about the same money that now buys a G5.
As long as everyone who buys a G5 gets a voucher in the box for a free upgrade to 10.3, I see no problem with shipping the hardware a few months before the OS that takes full advantage of it debuts.
~Philly
Admit that your security problems are a direct result of your insistance in violating the #1 rule of software design: YOU NEVER MIX CODE AND DATA TOGETHER. You have specifically engineered every product you sell to be scriptable. STOP IT!
For years Apple has had AppleScript, an extremely powerful scripting language. Almost every worthwhile Mac application is scriptable. In all the years that AppleScript has been around, how many times has this been exploited? Once, and it was a pretty poor job.
The problem is not the scriptability of Microsoft's products, it's just that they chose to make it a gee-whiz feature and get it out in the marketplace, instead of taking the time and doing it right.
~Philly
They drag their asses for years and leave the G4 stuck in the doldrums, making Apple (read: Steve Jobs) look bad. Now that Apple is most likely going to take their business to a vendor who is interested in meeting the needs of their client (what a concept!), Motorola's getting interested in competing again? Please!
It's way too late for that-- the die has been cast, and more than likely has been since the first generation of "we can't get faster CPUs, so we put in two CPUs" Power Mac G4s. Spend your development money on more uber-annoying "Hello Moto" ads, and leave the CPU business to companies who are serious about it, ya friggin' tards.
~Philly
Yeah, that is some pretty poor wording. Maybe something like: "the thief will soon discover that the machine has no black market resale value."
:-)
Of course, they also contradict themselves by saying "you won't lose any, because it can't work by itself"-- think about this. If some crackheads break into your offices, they're gonna grab as many of these things as they can carry. I doubt one of them will go, "Hey, wait, these are NETWORK computers!" And once the crackheads find out the things don't work, they'll end up in a dumpster, a rvier, or some muddy vacant lot.
Of course, who's to say these things didn't come with window stickers that say "Computers will not work if removed from premises."?
Bottom line, if a computer gets stolen, whether it works or not once it's off your premises, it's probably gone forever. The only plus side is that since it's a network computer, your valuable data won't be taken out the door unless the crackheads make off with your server as well.
~Philly