Like I said - it is something that needs to be managed. MS has to take account of a large range of possible hardware configurations. Apple only has to worry about (officially) a much smaller set - all the machines it makes.
It's not necessarily a crippling weakness to have to consider enormous platform configuration combinations - it allows you to have easy access to a wide install base, and increased flexibility, but you cannot simply ignore the issue.
We'll see things for developers get easier. We may see an increase in ads now that there is an easy way to integrate them, although individual app makers who roll their own will have to decide whether to keep theirs or take a load off but just deal with the cut from Apple.
Those who were offering free apps before will continue to do so - if they were free before, they will likely remain free. What is likely to happen is that paid-for functionality that was previously only available in paid apps could now be available in ad-sponsored versions.
Ultimately the apps are a way for money to be made (for developers and Apple), the nature of that business model already includes ads. You make decisions on what apps you use as a consumer based on several factors - presence of ad sponsorship being one of them.
My video cable is not an "apple one with a chip in it" and it works just fine. Cost me £9 online somewhere. If you're on about MiniDisplayport, then that is the nature of all of those adapters - not just Apple's.
They dumped the proprietary Apple Display Connector that required an external box of tricks to work with DVI - it's all standard now, more's the better.
If you rent a movie from a bricks and mortar store, and you go over the time you are charged a late fee. While digital copies have no concept of "solidity" (ie, you keeping your digital rental too long doesn't mean the store can't rent it again) but the rules are simple. Apple are not unique with time-sensitive download content - the BBC and Sky operate something similar with iPlayer and Sky Player. That's what is meant by *rental*. If you don;t want to expire, you should buy it - which they do offer.
If I rent something from Blockbuster, why did I pay lest than the purchase cost of the DVD? Why can't I keep it (without them charging me for a lost disc).
You seem to want to keep your digital rentals forever.
I don;t pay Apple "a small premium every time" I listen to music I have purchased on the iTunes store. I also don't listen to it on exclusively Apple devices (and no, no format conversion - I'm using the raw mp4 files from Apple's store).
They were brought in by Labour, so are automatically evil in the eyes of Boris and his paymasters.
They also annoy drivers of Chelsea Tractors (SUVs) because they are physically large articulated busses that require plenty of room and considerate driving from other motorists.
I thought they were pretty good - a huge improvement on the routemaster for space and access, and they were comfortable and quiet to ride.
From what I understand from my US-based friends (so, Hulu "anywhere" as long as it's in the US), the experience on Hulu lately has been "attempt to start TV show... browser crash" over and over.
Used to be great, now is rubbish.
10.1 Flash is better, but it is still a hog. I have to wonder just how well it is going to run on a handheld device.
I don;t think you're far off. Android has the benefit of being available on multiple platforms and manufacturers - that is going to increase the installed base. It is also its weakness (although not a crippling one) in that you have a varied handset base that you need to manage. The benefit of the iPhone is the very small set of hardware that iPhone OS runs on. Advantages and disadvantages to both systems, but that's just how it is.
Android is clearly doing extremely well, and good for it - if there is one thing that is going to drive iPhone development, it's a serious competitor (and vice versa). Everyone is going to be better off.
Apple's iPhone base is something like 100 million phones - I think it has well and truly "arrived" enough to always be a big player now, the same as Android - neither one is going to kill the other, they'll just both keep improving.
The iPhone integrates with third party services quite nicely - twitter, facebook, flikr, etc, and the new advertising service is *optional*. It doesn't do anything that the app store doesn't have already, it just means that if an app developer wants an easy way to include advertising, they can no do so - with the bulk of the heavy lifting (ad serving and ad selection) handled by Apple (for a cut). You can still produce free apps, or roll your own ad distribution like apps in the store already have (like Shazam lite for one).
For all the crying about how Apple limit developers, you think that a new feature that makes development easier if you were going to use ads in the first place might at least be *understood* by slashdot, if not praised. (it is an ad service after all).
So Apple are "nickel and diming you to death" - compared to Android? The apps on the Android marketplace cost money too. Why is it different on there? There are free apps on both platforms, and ad-suppoted apps on both platforms. Why is it "nickel and diming" on iPhone and not on Android?
Because identifying the source of a problem is often the first step to solving it.
What if the iPhone's exclusivity deal with AT&T ends - as a consumer, are you going to assume that there won't be tethering on Verizon or whatever other provider it becomes available on?
We make a lot of noise about the "ignorant sheeple" and you are now promoting that as a tenable position as a consumer? You can't have it both ways. Maybe you don't care, but you are not the person I replied to - perhaps they do care to be informed?
The Apple firmware no - it needs to sync to iTunes to get playlists, you can't just drag files onto it from the Finder and have them playable on the iPod, but you can enable it as an HD/mass storage device that mounts like a regular hard drive for data transfers.
Apple hasn't sued anyone over the prototype. There was a criminal investigation, but that was handled by the police and the California authorities - Apple had nothing to do with that.
Something about posting clear evidence on the internet that you bought stolen property makes police departments pretty likely to come and bust you. A nice easy "crime solved" case for the statistics.
Talk to AT&T about that - in the rest of the world, the iPhone has tethering as a basic non-jailbreak feature. The lack of tethering on the iPhone is the US is *entirely* AT&T's limitation, which is strange since they allow it on other phones on their network (of course, those phones are not as popular).
It's *already* in the iPhone OS - my 3G tethers out of the box here in the UK - no jailbreaking or extra software. This is entirely an AT&T limitation in the US.
It's more a confirmation that gases behave (or rather, the equations we use to model them) as we expect.
As to practical applications, pretty much any physical chemistry with gasses, CFD, etc. It's less "new" than it is "we don't have to come up with some new maths for this".
Well, ask a physical chemist, they're all in the ground floor labs with the heavy equipment pretending to be physicists (while all the physicists are off pretending to be mathematicians).
The setting does not change the way the iPod manages music - and you can choose which playlists and so on get moved to the iPod manually regardless of that setting in iTunes - either leave it on fully auto, or manage the iPod on a per song/per playlist basis or however you want. If you have two iPods (say an iPhone and an iPod) you can have different settings for each one .
I'm sorry, but I just cannot agree that it was a thorough test if you dropped it immediately without even looking at the preferences. It takes exactly 4 mouse clicks to disable - I just counted - I'd hardly call that "messing about". That includes activating the menu and choosing preferences - there's two clicks right there.
Windows XP was pretty awful when it came out but about 5 minutes in the preferences and the UI looked like Windows 2000 again, which took away some of the terribleness.
When I got my Picasso, the default system settings had the clock in AM/PM format rather than 24h - should I just say "oh that's rubbish! I'll bet you can't even change that!"
What I should definitely not do is go onto a forum and complain about the fact that it was in AM/PM format, and that the seat and steering wheel wasn't adjusted to my driving position by default and that it must therefore be useless and impossible to change because I didn't look for a control that could adjust it.
iTunes is not for you, fine. You want working out of the box, fine. Just stop spreading FUD that iTunes would not do what you wanted it to do, when it plainly can. The organisation was the only point you brought up, not the UI or other features that made you hate it. People addressed that organisation point, and you come back yelling that it doesn't do what you want out of the box and you never even looked at the preferences and just assumed that it couldn't do it.
I bought a flashlight the other day but it didn't come with batteries. when I clicked the on button the light didn't come on. Should I return it as faulty and look for another flashlight that already has batteries installed? This one obviously does not work.
I think you are misunderstanding the deliberate negatives in his post - that not only is he not going to buy it he's going to take a cheap shot at it. I just thought I'd make not that even without the extended warranty, Apple will give you a free replacement if your battery "dies after two months".
In other words "any evidence to the contrary will be ignored, whatever Apple does, some excuse will be made to negate it so it can be twisted to fit the "facts"".
In other words, the Fox News defence.
The fact is *they did write it first* and then open sourced it. Surely that's a good thing?
Why does Quicktime suck? Any specific examples (apart from the checkbox you can easy disable during the install on Windows to not install iTunes at the same time - if it sucks because you can't read the installer options... well, I suggest that it's not the software at fault).
Why is Nitro crap compared to V8? Is it fair to compare Nitro against V8, which is considerably newer code? What about the newer code developments with Nitro - how do those compare to an engine in practically constant beta?
What specifically about Nitro makes it crap compared to V8? Please cite some examples - I am interested.
Carakan, again, is literally just released. How does it compare to current dev builds of Nitro? What makes it better than Nitro? It's a shame you can't go over the source to have a look, but such is life.
Did you even look at the preferences? It's not like the option is at all hard to find - it's one click away from being visible in the preferences, under "Advanced".
Of course it is the default option - iTunes is primarily a jukebox/music organiser that is tailored to ease of use. The most automated function is going to be the default, but for advanced users, the very first thing under the advanced menu is the ability to disable this.
If you used iTunes for more than about half an hour and were actively annoyed by its self-organising function and looked for a way to turn it off and were unable to find it or even be aware that it was possible through google, Apple's help docs or just exploring the relatively simple preferences layout, then I really don't know what to say.
It's on by default, for someone interested in manual control it is very easy to find.
What are you talking about? Mac OS has supported right click context menus since OS 9. I have been using them in that fashion since then (perhaps even OS 8.6 - I forget exactly when we upgraded our Media 100 machine to OS 9).
Right click context is perfectly standard. You can read about how OS X treats them here:
1. Never used Emacs then? You don;t have to use them, but they do give you quick access to things that take longer on Windows - for example, alt+e, then e gives you é, alt+c is ç - you can quickly type accents, special characters, math symbols etc without breaking your stride. The only real difference between Windows and Mac is providing two keys instead of one for functions in Windows that are mapped to control - like copy/paste/quit etc. Essentially, the command key is what the control key is on Windows, with very few exceptions - control is used much less frequently (control+ right arrow is tab swap in Safari for example). You can live forever without ever pressing control though - 90% of the meta key combos use command and option. Always good to have choice though, right? People seem to always be harping on about having choice and freedom. (incidentally, feel free to change the key combos in the system preferences if you like - it's good to have freedom!)
2. Apple hasn't shipped a one button mouse in years, and the OS has supported 2 button mice (and more) since OS 9. The trackpads on current Mac laptops are two button, despite being one large physical thing - you can click on the left and right side of it for left and right click.
3. You can buy a stylus for the iPad if you want - if you have an app that needs it. The UI of the iPad and iPhone was designed around a human hand. It does work with a stylus if you want though, it just doesn't have one by default. I have seen some nice work done on an iPad with a stylus.
4. Apple uses the Unix method for user files. Take it up with them. I believe Linux uses the same idea too: each user has a home folder. On OS X it is actually an icon of a house - perhaps a little cheesy, but there it is. So, if you are complaining that the Apple method of organising user files is bad, what you are really saying is the Unix/Linux way is bad since it *is exactly the same*.
There is a "common install format" - I'm not sure what you're on about there. Applications are in bundles (folders that are marked executable) so most of the necessary files to run them are inside this folder, which is "the app". These go into Applications by default, but they will run from anywhere. Any miscellaneous files that are not kept in the app bundle (like preference files go into specific app support folders (in the user's library or the global system one, depending on whether they are shared resources or specific to the user).
The "eject me" icons are mounted disk images - much the same as zip files. They can be a little confusing at first, and there could be a more graceful way to introduce the way an image mounts (like a CD or external drive), but that has gotten better in 10.6.
The menu bar at the top of the screen is just a different way to do it - it's not necessarily better than the menu-per-window, but if an app is in the foreground (ie, when I need to issue a command to it via a menu) I know *exactly* where the menu is, and can get to it via muscle memory. The Windows method has some advantages - multiple menus on the screen if you need to quickly jump between them, for example, but it costs you screen real estate.
You go back to the one button mouse argument - I say again - have you used a mac in the last 5 or 6 years?! They haven't shipped with one button mice for a long time (I think the PB and iBook were the last to go - in 2005ish), and have supported multi-button mice since OS 9. OS X is rich with context sensitive menus. What the original 1 button paradigm was about was that you shouldn't have to use a 2 button mouse - everything should be available with left click (even if it takes longer), with shorter context-sensitive menus available for those that wanted them. Apple has never forced you to use a single button mouse. Well, maybe on the Apple Lisa.
So, you own two new Macs and yet your post just reeks of uninformed trolling. Have you ever actually booted your two new Macs?
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Like I said - it is something that needs to be managed. MS has to take account of a large range of possible hardware configurations. Apple only has to worry about (officially) a much smaller set - all the machines it makes.
It's not necessarily a crippling weakness to have to consider enormous platform configuration combinations - it allows you to have easy access to a wide install base, and increased flexibility, but you cannot simply ignore the issue.
We'll see things for developers get easier. We may see an increase in ads now that there is an easy way to integrate them, although individual app makers who roll their own will have to decide whether to keep theirs or take a load off but just deal with the cut from Apple.
Those who were offering free apps before will continue to do so - if they were free before, they will likely remain free. What is likely to happen is that paid-for functionality that was previously only available in paid apps could now be available in ad-sponsored versions.
Ultimately the apps are a way for money to be made (for developers and Apple), the nature of that business model already includes ads. You make decisions on what apps you use as a consumer based on several factors - presence of ad sponsorship being one of them.
My video cable is not an "apple one with a chip in it" and it works just fine. Cost me £9 online somewhere. If you're on about MiniDisplayport, then that is the nature of all of those adapters - not just Apple's.
They dumped the proprietary Apple Display Connector that required an external box of tricks to work with DVI - it's all standard now, more's the better.
If you rent a movie from a bricks and mortar store, and you go over the time you are charged a late fee. While digital copies have no concept of "solidity" (ie, you keeping your digital rental too long doesn't mean the store can't rent it again) but the rules are simple. Apple are not unique with time-sensitive download content - the BBC and Sky operate something similar with iPlayer and Sky Player. That's what is meant by *rental*. If you don;t want to expire, you should buy it - which they do offer.
If I rent something from Blockbuster, why did I pay lest than the purchase cost of the DVD? Why can't I keep it (without them charging me for a lost disc).
You seem to want to keep your digital rentals forever.
I don;t pay Apple "a small premium every time" I listen to music I have purchased on the iTunes store. I also don't listen to it on exclusively Apple devices (and no, no format conversion - I'm using the raw mp4 files from Apple's store).
They were brought in by Labour, so are automatically evil in the eyes of Boris and his paymasters.
They also annoy drivers of Chelsea Tractors (SUVs) because they are physically large articulated busses that require plenty of room and considerate driving from other motorists.
I thought they were pretty good - a huge improvement on the routemaster for space and access, and they were comfortable and quiet to ride.
From what I understand from my US-based friends (so, Hulu "anywhere" as long as it's in the US), the experience on Hulu lately has been "attempt to start TV show... browser crash" over and over.
Used to be great, now is rubbish.
10.1 Flash is better, but it is still a hog. I have to wonder just how well it is going to run on a handheld device.
I don;t think you're far off. Android has the benefit of being available on multiple platforms and manufacturers - that is going to increase the installed base. It is also its weakness (although not a crippling one) in that you have a varied handset base that you need to manage. The benefit of the iPhone is the very small set of hardware that iPhone OS runs on. Advantages and disadvantages to both systems, but that's just how it is.
Android is clearly doing extremely well, and good for it - if there is one thing that is going to drive iPhone development, it's a serious competitor (and vice versa). Everyone is going to be better off.
Apple's iPhone base is something like 100 million phones - I think it has well and truly "arrived" enough to always be a big player now, the same as Android - neither one is going to kill the other, they'll just both keep improving.
The iPhone integrates with third party services quite nicely - twitter, facebook, flikr, etc, and the new advertising service is *optional*. It doesn't do anything that the app store doesn't have already, it just means that if an app developer wants an easy way to include advertising, they can no do so - with the bulk of the heavy lifting (ad serving and ad selection) handled by Apple (for a cut). You can still produce free apps, or roll your own ad distribution like apps in the store already have (like Shazam lite for one).
For all the crying about how Apple limit developers, you think that a new feature that makes development easier if you were going to use ads in the first place might at least be *understood* by slashdot, if not praised. (it is an ad service after all).
So Apple are "nickel and diming you to death" - compared to Android? The apps on the Android marketplace cost money too. Why is it different on there? There are free apps on both platforms, and ad-suppoted apps on both platforms. Why is it "nickel and diming" on iPhone and not on Android?
Because identifying the source of a problem is often the first step to solving it.
What if the iPhone's exclusivity deal with AT&T ends - as a consumer, are you going to assume that there won't be tethering on Verizon or whatever other provider it becomes available on?
We make a lot of noise about the "ignorant sheeple" and you are now promoting that as a tenable position as a consumer? You can't have it both ways. Maybe you don't care, but you are not the person I replied to - perhaps they do care to be informed?
Yes, it seems crazy that they limit it by particular phone, but such is the way. It is definitely not an Apple limitation.
The Apple firmware no - it needs to sync to iTunes to get playlists, you can't just drag files onto it from the Finder and have them playable on the iPod, but you can enable it as an HD/mass storage device that mounts like a regular hard drive for data transfers.
Pff! Brazils are clearly nuts, not a country!
(ok, so not everywhere else in the world, but in many locations).
Apple hasn't sued anyone over the prototype. There was a criminal investigation, but that was handled by the police and the California authorities - Apple had nothing to do with that.
Something about posting clear evidence on the internet that you bought stolen property makes police departments pretty likely to come and bust you. A nice easy "crime solved" case for the statistics.
Talk to AT&T about that - in the rest of the world, the iPhone has tethering as a basic non-jailbreak feature. The lack of tethering on the iPhone is the US is *entirely* AT&T's limitation, which is strange since they allow it on other phones on their network (of course, those phones are not as popular).
I didn't have to hack my iPhone to get tethering.
It's *already* in the iPhone OS - my 3G tethers out of the box here in the UK - no jailbreaking or extra software. This is entirely an AT&T limitation in the US.
It's more a confirmation that gases behave (or rather, the equations we use to model them) as we expect.
As to practical applications, pretty much any physical chemistry with gasses, CFD, etc. It's less "new" than it is "we don't have to come up with some new maths for this".
Ask a chemist.
Well, ask a physical chemist, they're all in the ground floor labs with the heavy equipment pretending to be physicists (while all the physicists are off pretending to be mathematicians).
The setting does not change the way the iPod manages music - and you can choose which playlists and so on get moved to the iPod manually regardless of that setting in iTunes - either leave it on fully auto, or manage the iPod on a per song/per playlist basis or however you want. If you have two iPods (say an iPhone and an iPod) you can have different settings for each one .
I'm sorry, but I just cannot agree that it was a thorough test if you dropped it immediately without even looking at the preferences. It takes exactly 4 mouse clicks to disable - I just counted - I'd hardly call that "messing about". That includes activating the menu and choosing preferences - there's two clicks right there.
Windows XP was pretty awful when it came out but about 5 minutes in the preferences and the UI looked like Windows 2000 again, which took away some of the terribleness.
When I got my Picasso, the default system settings had the clock in AM/PM format rather than 24h - should I just say "oh that's rubbish! I'll bet you can't even change that!"
What I should definitely not do is go onto a forum and complain about the fact that it was in AM/PM format, and that the seat and steering wheel wasn't adjusted to my driving position by default and that it must therefore be useless and impossible to change because I didn't look for a control that could adjust it.
iTunes is not for you, fine. You want working out of the box, fine. Just stop spreading FUD that iTunes would not do what you wanted it to do, when it plainly can. The organisation was the only point you brought up, not the UI or other features that made you hate it. People addressed that organisation point, and you come back yelling that it doesn't do what you want out of the box and you never even looked at the preferences and just assumed that it couldn't do it.
I bought a flashlight the other day but it didn't come with batteries. when I clicked the on button the light didn't come on. Should I return it as faulty and look for another flashlight that already has batteries installed? This one obviously does not work.
Mod that guy down, 100% wrong - this is not about coding desktop apps, which are totally unrestricted on OS X.
This is about phone development, where MS and Apple's approaches are markedly similar.
I think you are misunderstanding the deliberate negatives in his post - that not only is he not going to buy it he's going to take a cheap shot at it. I just thought I'd make not that even without the extended warranty, Apple will give you a free replacement if your battery "dies after two months".
You mean I don't have Ebala?
No, sir, you googled a typo.
I'm sure I have it! Typos are one of the symptoms!
Um. Whoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooosh.
I'm more concerned that this is a slashvertisment for Linux.
Slashdot used to be about news for nerds, stuff that mattered!
How far it has fallen.
In other words "any evidence to the contrary will be ignored, whatever Apple does, some excuse will be made to negate it so it can be twisted to fit the "facts"".
In other words, the Fox News defence.
The fact is *they did write it first* and then open sourced it. Surely that's a good thing?
Why does Quicktime suck? Any specific examples (apart from the checkbox you can easy disable during the install on Windows to not install iTunes at the same time - if it sucks because you can't read the installer options... well, I suggest that it's not the software at fault).
Why is Nitro crap compared to V8? Is it fair to compare Nitro against V8, which is considerably newer code? What about the newer code developments with Nitro - how do those compare to an engine in practically constant beta?
What specifically about Nitro makes it crap compared to V8? Please cite some examples - I am interested.
Carakan, again, is literally just released. How does it compare to current dev builds of Nitro? What makes it better than Nitro? It's a shame you can't go over the source to have a look, but such is life.
Ah who am I kidding, you have homework to do.
Did you even look at the preferences? It's not like the option is at all hard to find - it's one click away from being visible in the preferences, under "Advanced".
Of course it is the default option - iTunes is primarily a jukebox/music organiser that is tailored to ease of use. The most automated function is going to be the default, but for advanced users, the very first thing under the advanced menu is the ability to disable this.
If you used iTunes for more than about half an hour and were actively annoyed by its self-organising function and looked for a way to turn it off and were unable to find it or even be aware that it was possible through google, Apple's help docs or just exploring the relatively simple preferences layout, then I really don't know what to say.
It's on by default, for someone interested in manual control it is very easy to find.
What are you talking about? Mac OS has supported right click context menus since OS 9. I have been using them in that fashion since then (perhaps even OS 8.6 - I forget exactly when we upgraded our Media 100 machine to OS 9).
Right click context is perfectly standard. You can read about how OS X treats them here:
http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/AppleHIGuidelines/XHIGMenus/XHIGMenus.html
1. Never used Emacs then? You don;t have to use them, but they do give you quick access to things that take longer on Windows - for example, alt+e, then e gives you é, alt+c is ç - you can quickly type accents, special characters, math symbols etc without breaking your stride. The only real difference between Windows and Mac is providing two keys instead of one for functions in Windows that are mapped to control - like copy/paste/quit etc. Essentially, the command key is what the control key is on Windows, with very few exceptions - control is used much less frequently (control+ right arrow is tab swap in Safari for example). You can live forever without ever pressing control though - 90% of the meta key combos use command and option. Always good to have choice though, right? People seem to always be harping on about having choice and freedom. (incidentally, feel free to change the key combos in the system preferences if you like - it's good to have freedom!)
2. Apple hasn't shipped a one button mouse in years, and the OS has supported 2 button mice (and more) since OS 9. The trackpads on current Mac laptops are two button, despite being one large physical thing - you can click on the left and right side of it for left and right click.
3. You can buy a stylus for the iPad if you want - if you have an app that needs it. The UI of the iPad and iPhone was designed around a human hand. It does work with a stylus if you want though, it just doesn't have one by default. I have seen some nice work done on an iPad with a stylus.
4. Apple uses the Unix method for user files. Take it up with them. I believe Linux uses the same idea too: each user has a home folder. On OS X it is actually an icon of a house - perhaps a little cheesy, but there it is. So, if you are complaining that the Apple method of organising user files is bad, what you are really saying is the Unix/Linux way is bad since it *is exactly the same*.
There is a "common install format" - I'm not sure what you're on about there. Applications are in bundles (folders that are marked executable) so most of the necessary files to run them are inside this folder, which is "the app". These go into Applications by default, but they will run from anywhere. Any miscellaneous files that are not kept in the app bundle (like preference files go into specific app support folders (in the user's library or the global system one, depending on whether they are shared resources or specific to the user).
The "eject me" icons are mounted disk images - much the same as zip files. They can be a little confusing at first, and there could be a more graceful way to introduce the way an image mounts (like a CD or external drive), but that has gotten better in 10.6.
The menu bar at the top of the screen is just a different way to do it - it's not necessarily better than the menu-per-window, but if an app is in the foreground (ie, when I need to issue a command to it via a menu) I know *exactly* where the menu is, and can get to it via muscle memory. The Windows method has some advantages - multiple menus on the screen if you need to quickly jump between them, for example, but it costs you screen real estate.
You go back to the one button mouse argument - I say again - have you used a mac in the last 5 or 6 years?! They haven't shipped with one button mice for a long time (I think the PB and iBook were the last to go - in 2005ish), and have supported multi-button mice since OS 9. OS X is rich with context sensitive menus. What the original 1 button paradigm was about was that you shouldn't have to use a 2 button mouse - everything should be available with left click (even if it takes longer), with shorter context-sensitive menus available for those that wanted them. Apple has never forced you to use a single button mouse. Well, maybe on the Apple Lisa.
So, you own two new Macs and yet your post just reeks of uninformed trolling. Have you ever actually booted your two new Macs?