Oooh, I like vitriol as much as the next guy! So, here goes.
I drive a Jaguar and I use Jaguar. I got the money to spend it and I spend it on better stuff. I don't live in a cheap house, buy cheap clothes, ride the bus. I am an absolute elitist, live in one European country and work in others. I stay in Marriott on business if one is there, I fly EasyJet cause their website works, I have a house with a swimming pool and I don't have to buy something because it is cheaper. That OK with you? Don't like that? Tough for you.
Now that the cost argument is dead.......
I am the only Mac OSX user in my circle of colleagues. They hate me. Know what? My clients love me and want me to stay. Know why? Because I do things differently and better! Not gonna waste my time telling you and Anonymous Coward why. You both write like 10 year olds that just learned how to swear.
Windows advocates do business with a poor corporate citizen that is convicted of breaking the law all the time. You use three programs 80% of the time but claim having 5,864,400,320,900 available applications as an argument. There is NOTHING, and I mean NOTHING in my Windows and Mac experience that could make me think Windows is a better system for me. The most obvious is saving a file: Macs ask if you want to Save, Don't Save or Cancel, while Windows makes you read so you can answer Yes or No or Cancel. The former is actually intelligent programming. The latter is slower and of poor design. Designers have to think of a Yes or No question for the app to do its job! Stupid!
It takes twice as many clicks in Windows XP (or any other previous versions) to do the same work in a Mac, but then that makes a developer look like he's worked real hard.
Windows is full of apps that people don't necessarily use everyday but its there if you want it. And Windows apps are, in my view, UGLY and COMPLICATED!
I have seen my Colleague's Viao next to my TiBook. Speed? No question the XP Viao is faster than OS X. But the TiBook with 9 is much faster than the Vaio with XP. And, the Viao battery dies MUCH sooner, the quality of sound SUCKS, WMP is no match of iTunes. When I watch a DVD on the train or a plane on the way home, no skips, no hesitations, etc. The Viao and no other Windows machine I know of can play an entire DVD on one charge. (Oh, sorry - no candy for you!!)
I produce documents in three different languages almost daily (uh, for you developers out there, I am talking about English, French and Spanish, not C+, d-, Geecobalt BSD 5.893, etc.) I change my keyboard with a simple key stroke (maybe xp does that, I don't know).
I can change the language of the Operating System with a simple logout-login (does Windows/Linux do that? Oh, yea, in Amerka speak English or get out!) Great CRM, wouldn't you say?
The Systems Preferences beats the Hell out of Windows Control panel hands down. Configure a new ISP in a new State, country? Unbelievably easy, all in one screen!
Connect to another Windows machine without having to buy LapLink? Easy peasy if you can get the Windows machine configured to ethernet! We're talking about some serious PIBKAC issues when it comes to networking laptops! Windows users don't even TRY!
And I do not have to give MY money to a convicted monopolist and contract breaker like Microsoft.
It is soooooo disappointing to see that the developer community is so full of people that have no noble values! Microsoft has 95% of the browser market (obtained illegally) got.Net off the ground by changing Java (broken contract), was convicted of coercing Apple to install IE as the default browser under threat of discontinuing Office for Mac and will most likely be convicted of abuse of monopoly in Europe for bundling WMP in order to kill Real and Quick Time usage in PC's.
It is a reprehensible organization. But you probably buy stolen goods to keep your costs down, don't you?
Even if you can't get off the Wintel addiction, at least participate in the development of Linux. Or,
simply move to Apple. Great corporate citizen, not convicted of any poor business practices or lawbreaking (that I know of), headed by a CEO of a major media studio as well (Pixar) so understands the implications of copywrite infringement.... Great company to do business with.
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Oooh, I like vitriol as much as the next guy! So, here goes. I drive a Jaguar and I use Jaguar. I got the money to spend it and I spend it on better stuff. I don't live in a cheap house, buy cheap clothes, ride the bus. I am an absolute elitist, live in one European country and work in others. I stay in Marriott on business if one is there, I fly EasyJet cause their website works, I have a house with a swimming pool and I don't have to buy something because it is cheaper. That OK with you? Don't like that? Tough for you. Now that the cost argument is dead....... I am the only Mac OSX user in my circle of colleagues. They hate me. Know what? My clients love me and want me to stay. Know why? Because I do things differently and better! Not gonna waste my time telling you and Anonymous Coward why. You both write like 10 year olds that just learned how to swear. Windows advocates do business with a poor corporate citizen that is convicted of breaking the law all the time. You use three programs 80% of the time but claim having 5,864,400,320,900 available applications as an argument. There is NOTHING, and I mean NOTHING in my Windows and Mac experience that could make me think Windows is a better system for me. The most obvious is saving a file: Macs ask if you want to Save, Don't Save or Cancel, while Windows makes you read so you can answer Yes or No or Cancel. The former is actually intelligent programming. The latter is slower and of poor design. Designers have to think of a Yes or No question for the app to do its job! Stupid! It takes twice as many clicks in Windows XP (or any other previous versions) to do the same work in a Mac, but then that makes a developer look like he's worked real hard. Windows is full of apps that people don't necessarily use everyday but its there if you want it. And Windows apps are, in my view, UGLY and COMPLICATED! I have seen my Colleague's Viao next to my TiBook. Speed? No question the XP Viao is faster than OS X. But the TiBook with 9 is much faster than the Vaio with XP. And, the Viao battery dies MUCH sooner, the quality of sound SUCKS, WMP is no match of iTunes. When I watch a DVD on the train or a plane on the way home, no skips, no hesitations, etc. The Viao and no other Windows machine I know of can play an entire DVD on one charge. (Oh, sorry - no candy for you!!) I produce documents in three different languages almost daily (uh, for you developers out there, I am talking about English, French and Spanish, not C+, d-, Geecobalt BSD 5.893, etc.) I change my keyboard with a simple key stroke (maybe xp does that, I don't know). I can change the language of the Operating System with a simple logout-login (does Windows/Linux do that? Oh, yea, in Amerka speak English or get out!) Great CRM, wouldn't you say? The Systems Preferences beats the Hell out of Windows Control panel hands down. Configure a new ISP in a new State, country? Unbelievably easy, all in one screen! Connect to another Windows machine without having to buy LapLink? Easy peasy if you can get the Windows machine configured to ethernet! We're talking about some serious PIBKAC issues when it comes to networking laptops! Windows users don't even TRY! And I do not have to give MY money to a convicted monopolist and contract breaker like Microsoft. It is soooooo disappointing to see that the developer community is so full of people that have no noble values! Microsoft has 95% of the browser market (obtained illegally) got .Net off the ground by changing Java (broken contract), was convicted of coercing Apple to install IE as the default browser under threat of discontinuing Office for Mac and will most likely be convicted of abuse of monopoly in Europe for bundling WMP in order to kill Real and Quick Time usage in PC's.
It is a reprehensible organization. But you probably buy stolen goods to keep your costs down, don't you?
Even if you can't get off the Wintel addiction, at least participate in the development of Linux. Or,
simply move to Apple. Great corporate citizen, not convicted of any poor business practices or lawbreaking (that I know of), headed by a CEO of a major media studio as well (Pixar) so understands the implications of copywrite infringement.... Great company to do business with.