"For a Mac user it is obvious and when they switch to Windows they wonder why when they try to close one window every other window with that app closes too."
The "shutdown" button isn't used to close the current window.
"It also proves very useful for school work where multivariable calculus, differential equations, and circuit diagrams are the basis for most of the E.E. side of the courses I take."
When I was an EE major the prof just handed out the notes. I think that's more logical than requiring students to buy tablet computers. I smell a kickback.
"Apple isn't positioning the iPad as a replacement for a full-function computer, and instead is thinking of it more as an appliance."
OK, but appliances usually do useful things like keeping food cold or washing clothes. Merely removing features from a general purpose computer does not an appliance make.
I can't imagine that iPhone users will outnumber Windows users anytime soon. Besides, I thought the iPhone wasn't supposed to require any special support on the server side to allow browsing.
"The typical user will care when IE won't play the games that they want to play or view the videos they want to see."
You're right if you replace "will" with "would" and "when" with "if". Where's the evidence that everybody's going to drop flash and embrace HTML5? Having the browsers support it is necessary, but the key player is the money guy who foots the bill for the websites - is he going to see a bottom-line advantage in rewriting the existing sites to be politically correct?
My theory was that Sun wanted to get everybody switched to Java and then sell people Java acceleration hardware under the principle of WORABFOOSH: Write Once Run Anywhere But Fast Only On Sun Hardware.
That's why they were so pissed at MS - A windows-accelerated Java made a Java accelerator unnecessary.
"IE8 isn't the dominant IE browser yet. Drop IE8 support and offer the IE6/IE7 users a chance to go to another browser."
Companies want to have as many people as possible view their site. They don't care if their web developers don't want to support IE. There are plenty of developers out there that understand the golden rule: "those with the gold, make the rules". That's why they call it "work".
"So what we have is ACME Inc that isnt even named files a trademark on "iPad" knowing full well that Apple prefixes all their products with an i."
Yes, I'm writing this on my iMac iMini. BTW, I don't want to give anybody the wrong impression - a client gave me it for a project (not that there's anything wrong with being gay).
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"A flatscreen TV is basically just an iMac with a bunch of features removed."
How does removing features from an iMac add a TV tuner?
"For a Mac user it is obvious and when they switch to Windows they wonder why when they try to close one window every other window with that app closes too."
The "shutdown" button isn't used to close the current window.
You do realize that Android's Java isn't standard Java, right?
"It also proves very useful for school work where multivariable calculus, differential equations, and circuit diagrams are the basis for most of the E.E. side of the courses I take."
When I was an EE major the prof just handed out the notes. I think that's more logical than requiring students to buy tablet computers. I smell a kickback.
Is that before or after you drop them?
"Apple isn't positioning the iPad as a replacement for a full-function computer, and instead is thinking of it more as an appliance."
OK, but appliances usually do useful things like keeping food cold or washing clothes. Merely removing features from a general purpose computer does not an appliance make.
"The ones who don't know what twitter are are the ones who tend to stay far away from their email. "
Actually, it's because we do know what twitter is that some of us avoid it.
I can't imagine that iPhone users will outnumber Windows users anytime soon. Besides, I thought the iPhone wasn't supposed to require any special support on the server side to allow browsing.
If Mozilla has decided they want plug-ins to go away, they better get on it - Firefox is the most plug-in centric browser there is.
"The typical user will care when IE won't play the games that they want to play or view the videos they want to see."
You're right if you replace "will" with "would" and "when" with "if". Where's the evidence that everybody's going to drop flash and embrace HTML5? Having the browsers support it is necessary, but the key player is the money guy who foots the bill for the websites - is he going to see a bottom-line advantage in rewriting the existing sites to be politically correct?
My theory was that Sun wanted to get everybody switched to Java and then sell people Java acceleration hardware under the principle of WORABFOOSH: Write Once Run Anywhere But Fast Only On Sun Hardware.
That's why they were so pissed at MS - A windows-accelerated Java made a Java accelerator unnecessary.
"And yet, the NeXT systems had a reputation for beautiful graphics."
Sure. Both users agreed.
I seriously doubt that any developer is writing a new application that requires IE6.
Even if they were major MS fanboy (is there such a thing?), there are much better Windows-specific tools today than there were in 2001.
"The entire point of web apps is that they make it easy to replace the client."
I see. The justification for web apps is pretty slim.
This seems like a non-problem to me. Use IE6 for those apps that require it. Use one of the other browsers for everything else.
Assuming, of course, that the desire to switch browsers isn't limited to the IT department - IT is a service function after all.
"IE8 isn't the dominant IE browser yet. Drop IE8 support and offer the IE6/IE7 users a chance to go to another browser."
Companies want to have as many people as possible view their site. They don't care if their web developers don't want to support IE. There are plenty of developers out there that understand the golden rule: "those with the gold, make the rules". That's why they call it "work".
The typical user doesn't give a rat's ass about "product X dominating the web".
No, they're living in 2010 with a 60% market share.
Unless HTML5 outperforms Flash it's not likely to be the reason for anybody to switch. Anybody who hates MS or Flash has already switched, right?
Isn't it great that HTML5 is making hacks like Flash obsolete .. oh wait.
Not enough Tritium.
I suspect that security was the trade-off that the end-to-end principle was all too willing to make.
"So what we have is ACME Inc that isnt even named files a trademark on "iPad" knowing full well that Apple prefixes all their products with an i."
Yes, I'm writing this on my iMac iMini. BTW, I don't want to give anybody the wrong impression - a client gave me it for a project (not that there's anything wrong with being gay).
"It's a win-win."
Until you roll over in bed some morning and wonder what the hell that sticky red stuff is on your face.
"No, it's because there aren't many security problems to solve at the IP layer or below."
Who says a new design has to use IP?
"Not without breaking what the internet *is*."
Remember, at the time it was designed, there was no "is".