- Apple introduced preemptive multitasking much later than Micro$oft.
Apple had a GUI well before MS.
- Apple insists on the "one-mouse" button, which the inventor of the mouse, Doug Engelbart, calls an "arrogant" decision. For engineenering purposes, mice should have two to three buttons, not one. Apple breaks this rule by having the user's other hand use the butterly CONTROL key on the keyboard as the 2nd and 3rd buttons. This is more inconvenient to users. (So much for the "end user experience.")
Doug Englebart's entitled to an opinion. It is Apple's opinion that having many mouse buttons can be confusing to new users. However, they have support for three mouse buttons built into the OS.
- The "Cube" was a failure because its crystal clear acrylic case would crack during shipping, and hence was discontinued.
No, the cube was a failure because it was released just as the economy tanked. People weren't willing to pay a premium for aesthetics.
- Jean Louis Gassee's idea of "networking" the Mac was by using a modem over a serial port! (Read Jim Carlton's "Apple: the Inside Story").
Apple was leading the charge with both the introduction of 100bt and gigabit networking. They also have pioneered 802.11b and 802.11g while the rest of the PC world fumbled.
- Steven Levy, author of "Insanely Great" (a book on the history of the Macintosh) admits in the preface that his Apple Mac crashed on him several times whilst he was writing the book! (So much for the "end user experience.")
Bill Gates got up at a Comdex once and, in front of thousands of Windows devotees, it crashed on him. OS X does not crash either, btw.
- The first Macintosh did not have a hard drive because Jobs didn't want the noise of the hard drive to detract from the aesthetic appeal of the machine. Thus, not many Macintoshes were sold to businesses, which absoluately required the extra storage space. (So much for the "end user experience.")
You need to get a dictionary and look up the difference between user experience and user requirements.
- The Newton was a failure.
The Newton pioneered the handheld market, but like with so many things Apple produced it was ahead of its time. Every handheld you see today is based on the principles that the Newton introduced.
- Pippen was a failure. - Taligent was a failure.
My god, a product released by a tech firm that doesn't hit the top of the charts? Apple must be doomed!
- OS-X/Unix introduces timing problems for MIDI musicians. Better stick with an older version of the software.
OS X has such a low audio latency that it, even under load, remains many times in front of Linux and Windows. A key number of audio apps are now optimised for OS X, thanks to some recent strategic acquisitions. It doesn't surprise me that the only thing you can find to pick on was one midi timing bug with the OS, though. It's very good.
- Apple is not known for its servers.
Sony wasn't known for it's game consoles a few years ago, either. Your point?
- Apple is not widely used in scientific computing.
You know nothing, Anonymous Troll. Take a look on Apple's PowerMac G5 pages and look at Performance sub page. Two scientific applications - genome and DNA sequencing. It's not uncommon to walk into any scientific lab and see macs everywhere.
- Apple is not widely used in business for email, inventory control, financial analysis, etc.
Maybe the RIAA would back off a bit if most of their legal attack squad and mayhaps their fearless leader all had glorious meetings with a large bullets....which is exactly why organized crime families should run p2p networks.
I wouldn't want to have been the poor sod to have sold a P2P network to Tony Soprano when he realizes he can't make any more out of it than Napster did.
No sirree.
Or maybe worse, they'd start sending heavies round to all the downloaders houses to collect. That sure would stop the downloading
Yeah, but you probably want to put out a branded version of BitTorrent with a nicer user interface.
The current UI looks like puked out in 2 days;)
Also it might make sense to provide a BitTorrent version that installs through ActiveX. The download version should be offered for Linux, Mozilla and Opera users.
The thing is, clients don't want to be leaving windows open to be helping the reseller, or whatever it is the poster's company does. It's simply not done - the client should be able to log on, get what they want, log off. No leaving windows open, no puked interface, no leaving ports open of firewalls to appease bittorrent.
I would recommend Akamai. They power some of the largest sites on the internet; if your site runs out of bandwidth with them looking after it, I daresay it's because there's not enough bandwidth on the internet (9/11 for example).
"Fish", you ask. "How could they get out in the wild?"
Simple. People flush them down the toilet. Where I live, Carp are a big problem. Our lake is full of them, they disturb all the mud and turn the lake into more of a mud-puddle. How did they get there? People flushing goldfish down the toilet, apparently.
Now, that's bad. But imagine if The Great Barrier Reef got a couple of these genetically engineered monsters onto it. It's biological integrity would be instantly compromised; who knows what will happen with these fish in 5, 10, 50 years time?
While new Macs, new iApps, and new user interface trinkets could debut here or at any other Apple event, this is the only time of year Apple really focuses on making geeky, developer relevant announcements. I hope this WWDC doesn't disappoint in that regard.
Now, that could mean one of three things: 1. He's going to be doing an extended demo of hardware that was released at WWDC 2. He's going to announce the hardware at MW; unlikely if this is the 970s everyone's been predicting (Job's would do that), or 3. He's going to announce that the 970s demo'd at WWDC are to be released.
that Office will certainly be last. That's still a good source of revenue.
Well, maybe.
This Safari vs IE thing is typical MS; if we can't win, and we can't buy it, then we take our ball and go home.
Now, let's say Apple releases a free (and decent) Office suite, based on OpenOffice (rumours circa 3 months ago), and repeated here... imagine, MS might not win, won't be able to buy it... so just pick up their ball, and go home.
Now, imagine if Apple then does a Windows version of that. Suddenly, a major source of MS revenue goes down the plug hole.
I've always maintained, the best chance of throwing MS off its pedestal is to attack it from the consumer end, and the company best able to do this is Apple.
there's one other reason. how many drives (of any description - CD-ROM, hard, DVD, etc) do you see shipping with a native firewire interface?
answer - none. All of them use IDE-Firewire bridges. So why add extra firewire inside the machine, and extra firewire on all the drives, when all that's really happening is they're using IDE anyway?
Yes, Australia used to have unlimited broadband... until Telstra decided to introduce 3GB caps (uploads and downloads included) effective immediately.
Look, it's all very well to bag out the ISPs capping usage or charging usage fees to go over it, but what you don't say is that every ISP has to pay for it's bandwidth, and it's charged by usage as well.
Most data comes from the US. In the US, that's easy, but when you need to go half way round the world to get the info then it costs money! You think the people that lay the trans-pacific cable just let anyone use it for free?
The other reason that the caps were implemented were that the ISPs discovered that 90% of their users were under them, and the other 10% were over them by some ridiculous amount. I know there are legitimate uses for it, but by and large the only thing it restricts are the warez and movie/music distributors.
You know what I'd do? I'd get up on the back of a truck, and do a Presidential Speech a la the one done in Independence Day: "Today... we celebrate... INDEPENDENCE DAY"
-- james ps Am I the only one that thinks that speech was the only decent part of that movie?
To me a better type of transparent screen, more like the one used in Minority Report already exists (by conventional means)
I love this "relate/. tech to movie" kind of thing. Whilst the movie itself sucked, Red Planet was full of cool future stuff; including some cool future uses for "transparent screens"; they folded one out and as it progressed across the body it overlaid bodily injuries. Another use was as a map; the screen overlaid directions and bearings, whilst still letting you see the terrain behind it. Very cool.
Nothing beats the mechanical dog out of that movie, though. That's what an AIBO should be like!:)
I should know better than to start a flamewar on apple.slashdot BUT the term "tearing up" IMHO would only be meaningful if Company X was going to dominate Company Y in actual market share and earnings.
The article referred to products, not Companies. Panther will tear up up Longhorn, not Apple will tear up Microsoft.
If the article said that, then maybe market share and earnings would be relevant.
A Porsche 911 Turbo will tear up a Honda Civic. Yet market share and earnings... Honda Civic wins. See what I mean?
How good a product is does not necessarily translate to how many of the items is sold. You're thinking like a member of a development team, not an end user. Which isn't all that surprising, considering your disclaimer;)
more importantly, it shows why the RIAA shouldn't have instant access to ISP details (Verizon case IIRC). They make mistakes; a judge is a relevant and important step in the way of preventing innocent people from being nailed for errors like this.
Then why should there be one for wireless producers now?
Agreed in principle, but was there the same amount of $$$ going into the CAT5 people in the 80s? I don't remember, was too young. Ultimately, the $$$ in have got to turn into $$$ out, and in increasing amounts. That's what screwed dot com, and it risks screwing the 802 crowd as well.
The risk is that ultimately it just turns into a commodity good. All the wireless routers and hubs and cards do fundamentally the same thing; all that's left to differentiate on is price.
There will be some degree of convergence, but I don't think anybody has this at all figured out yet. The most practical convergence toys I've seen are the PDA/phones.
Have you seen the Final Fantasy movie? My idea of the future is going to be the computer that Aki has on her arm in the beginning of the movie. With the display that projects out up to 5 cm above the unit itself.
Along way off, but that would be the ultimate i think:)
While Apple is responsible for many innovations, USB isn't one of them.
My apologies if that's how you read it. I didn't mean they'd developed; but as FueledByRamen says above, Apple was responsible for pushing it the hardest. The iMac came along, and suddenly USB was mainstream.
It should also be noted that Apple didn't develop the GUI (Xerox, though Apple legally licensed and developed it further) or even the mouse. They've developed many different techs (yep, Firewire) but they're just as good at pushing ones they didn't develop. The industry seems to follow their every footstep.
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Thanks for your insight, anonymous coward.
Apple had a GUI well before MS.
Doug Englebart's entitled to an opinion. It is Apple's opinion that having many mouse buttons can be confusing to new users. However, they have support for three mouse buttons built into the OS.
No, the cube was a failure because it was released just as the economy tanked. People weren't willing to pay a premium for aesthetics.
Apple was leading the charge with both the introduction of 100bt and gigabit networking. They also have pioneered 802.11b and 802.11g while the rest of the PC world fumbled.
Bill Gates got up at a Comdex once and, in front of thousands of Windows devotees, it crashed on him.
OS X does not crash either, btw.
You need to get a dictionary and look up the difference between user experience and user requirements.
The Newton pioneered the handheld market, but like with so many things Apple produced it was ahead of its time. Every handheld you see today is based on the principles that the Newton introduced.
My god, a product released by a tech firm that doesn't hit the top of the charts? Apple must be doomed!
OS X has such a low audio latency that it, even under load, remains many times in front of Linux and Windows. A key number of audio apps are now optimised for OS X, thanks to some recent strategic acquisitions.
It doesn't surprise me that the only thing you can find to pick on was one midi timing bug with the OS, though. It's very good.
Sony wasn't known for it's game consoles a few years ago, either. Your point?
You know nothing, Anonymous Troll. Take a look on Apple's PowerMac G5 pages and look at Performance sub page. Two scientific applications - genome and DNA sequencing. It's not uncommon to walk into any scientific lab and see macs everywhere.
I wouldn't want to have been the poor sod to have sold a P2P network to Tony Soprano when he realizes he can't make any more out of it than Napster did.
No sirree.
Or maybe worse, they'd start sending heavies round to all the downloaders houses to collect. That sure would stop the downloading
The thing is, clients don't want to be leaving windows open to be helping the reseller, or whatever it is the poster's company does. It's simply not done - the client should be able to log on, get what they want, log off. No leaving windows open, no puked interface, no leaving ports open of firewalls to appease bittorrent.
I would recommend Akamai. They power some of the largest sites on the internet; if your site runs out of bandwidth with them looking after it, I daresay it's because there's not enough bandwidth on the internet (9/11 for example).
-- james
Took the words right out of my mouth.
The twit who posted this story thinks he can run Apple. All he's really showing his ignorance.
is if these things actually get out in the wild.
"Fish", you ask. "How could they get out in the wild?"
Simple. People flush them down the toilet. Where I live, Carp are a big problem. Our lake is full of them, they disturb all the mud and turn the lake into more of a mud-puddle. How did they get there? People flushing goldfish down the toilet, apparently.
Now, that's bad. But imagine if The Great Barrier Reef got a couple of these genetically engineered monsters onto it. It's biological integrity would be instantly compromised; who knows what will happen with these fish in 5, 10, 50 years time?
-- james
Also relevant; it seems that the Apple VP in charge of hardware is going to be headlining at the new MacWorld Expo in July.
Now, that could mean one of three things:
1. He's going to be doing an extended demo of hardware that was released at WWDC
2. He's going to announce the hardware at MW; unlikely if this is the 970s everyone's been predicting (Job's would do that), or
3. He's going to announce that the 970s demo'd at WWDC are to be released.
I choose 1.
-- james
hmm... I've been programmed by too many action movies; as soon as I see a 3d plane, I half expect a missile to be coming up behind it...
Next week?
You're new round here, aren't you?
Well, maybe.
This Safari vs IE thing is typical MS; if we can't win, and we can't buy it, then we take our ball and go home.
Now, let's say Apple releases a free (and decent) Office suite, based on OpenOffice (rumours circa 3 months ago), and repeated here... imagine, MS might not win, won't be able to buy it... so just pick up their ball, and go home.
Now, imagine if Apple then does a Windows version of that. Suddenly, a major source of MS revenue goes down the plug hole.
I've always maintained, the best chance of throwing MS off its pedestal is to attack it from the consumer end, and the company best able to do this is Apple.
Anyways, enough musing.
-- james
there's one other reason. how many drives (of any description - CD-ROM, hard, DVD, etc) do you see shipping with a native firewire interface?
answer - none. All of them use IDE-Firewire bridges. So why add extra firewire inside the machine, and extra firewire on all the drives, when all that's really happening is they're using IDE anyway?
-- james
Go look up President Bush on the American's for the separation of Church and State website. Then come back and repeat what you just said.
-- james
ps not an inditement on Bush, just an observation.
Look, it's all very well to bag out the ISPs capping usage or charging usage fees to go over it, but what you don't say is that every ISP has to pay for it's bandwidth, and it's charged by usage as well.
Most data comes from the US. In the US, that's easy, but when you need to go half way round the world to get the info then it costs money! You think the people that lay the trans-pacific cable just let anyone use it for free?
The other reason that the caps were implemented were that the ISPs discovered that 90% of their users were under them, and the other 10% were over them by some ridiculous amount. I know there are legitimate uses for it, but by and large the only thing it restricts are the warez and movie/music distributors.
-- james
where's the humour in these threads?!?
You know what I'd do? I'd get up on the back of a truck, and do a Presidential Speech a la the one done in Independence Day: "Today... we celebrate... INDEPENDENCE DAY"
-- james
ps Am I the only one that thinks that speech was the only decent part of that movie?
"peter jackson, you ****ing hack!!"
:)
ROFL!!
That was great... does anyone have a link to the Yoda acceptance speech?
-- james
I'd get it damn quick, if Apple's swift wrath over iCommune is anything to go by.
-- james
And so, unfortunately, Intel becomes the only real winner in this scenario, ursurping Firewire's place.
On the other hand, there are already a hell of a lot of PS2s out there with Firewire already installed.
-- james
you know, women turns 30 and suddenly she's 30 for the next 10 years?
:)
:)
She gets to 65kg and she remains there even though she puts on another 10kg
gotta love 'em
-- james
I love this "relate
Nothing beats the mechanical dog out of that movie, though. That's what an AIBO should be like!
-- james
The article referred to products, not Companies. Panther will tear up up Longhorn, not Apple will tear up Microsoft.
If the article said that, then maybe market share and earnings would be relevant.
A Porsche 911 Turbo will tear up a Honda Civic. Yet market share and earnings... Honda Civic wins. See what I mean?
How good a product is does not necessarily translate to how many of the items is sold. You're thinking like a member of a development team, not an end user. Which isn't all that surprising, considering your disclaimer
-- james
You mean a big fart?
-- james
"When Copy Protection Works"?
I mean, come on... it only worked if he copied it! Hello?
-- james
more importantly, it shows why the RIAA shouldn't have instant access to ISP details (Verizon case IIRC). They make mistakes; a judge is a relevant and important step in the way of preventing innocent people from being nailed for errors like this.
-- james
Agreed in principle, but was there the same amount of $$$ going into the CAT5 people in the 80s? I don't remember, was too young. Ultimately, the $$$ in have got to turn into $$$ out, and in increasing amounts. That's what screwed dot com, and it risks screwing the 802 crowd as well.
The risk is that ultimately it just turns into a commodity good. All the wireless routers and hubs and cards do fundamentally the same thing; all that's left to differentiate on is price.
-- james
Have you seen the Final Fantasy movie? My idea of the future is going to be the computer that Aki has on her arm in the beginning of the movie. With the display that projects out up to 5 cm above the unit itself.
Along way off, but that would be the ultimate i think
-- james
My apologies if that's how you read it. I didn't mean they'd developed; but as FueledByRamen says above, Apple was responsible for pushing it the hardest. The iMac came along, and suddenly USB was mainstream.
It should also be noted that Apple didn't develop the GUI (Xerox, though Apple legally licensed and developed it further) or even the mouse. They've developed many different techs (yep, Firewire) but they're just as good at pushing ones they didn't develop. The industry seems to follow their every footstep.
-- james