ya yer betcha'
This puppy has been warmed over so many times. Must be nice to have a billion bucks and money to burn on pet projects albeit dead ended.
I'm afraid this is yet another fool's errand putting out a product that serves no real need and improves no ones lot.
Here in the Lake Washington School District there is a "technology comittee". It's make up is primarily Windows users and we have "incentives" from MS or ex-MS people. The decision was made to blow away the Macs and switch to PCs. So the NT systems came in. Unfortunately someone did'nt do their homework and most of the educational programs did not run on NT so we had a whole year where there was no computer use basically. This finally sort of got resolved. What blows me away is that we don't have the books, extra teaching tools, and personnel but we have spanky new PCs. Priorites seem very whacked.
In a world where mostly everything is done through a browser, with a climate of PC, MAC, and Linux...the school moved to the mono PC culture - the absolute lowest common denominator. What realy burns me is that Apple is such an innovator and I think that showing this to kids would be a good thing. In my humble opinion I don't think that Microsoft's monopolistic behaviour, legal judgements, stifling of innovation, quality of software, and use of massive quantities of "slave labour"/outsourcing are good models to hold up in front of kids...I'd much rather have the "Apple Story" of history, innovation, and high design held up to them.
This has come up many times in the past and I must admit every time it has I've had two reactions:
1) it just makes so much sense
2) it just feels right
What a world we are living in now, my workstation is Windows, OpenOffice, Mozilla, and a gaggle of other "free" tools and software. I'm in the process of shucking Windows finally. No one is making much money off me and I'm fat and happy. I use this for "work".
I also have an iMac...all my non-work media, iPhoto, iTunes, movies and cool fun stuff is on there. Who knows my workstation may move to this at some point. Notice how the most money I have spent is directed to the Apple side of things. I'm willing to pay for what I get.
The point is that a bunch of these companies are becoming irrelevant in the new world order. Why on earth do I play with Macs? There is just something about them...that something that differentiates a BMW from a Volkswagon I guess. It's cool.
Sun in a precarious position and needs to do something drastic...there are few choices: seems like it's really merge with MS or merge with Apple. I think the latter holds so much more.
A merge could push both companys into stronger positions and offer a future that will take us all to some new places. I hate to sound trippy...but there is a hell of a lot of creative and brain poser with the two companies. Like it or not a little Steve Jobs markeging finese could really crank it up.
While my intial experiences with Safari have been very good...what I need and what I believe a lot of Mac people need is a browser I can use at home, at work, at play so to speak. Mozilla fills this need and then some. Of course it's not difficult to shift between browsers, but the feature set and wins to use different ones must be quite substantial.
So I'll use Mozilla...it's home now...I can use it on my PC, use it on my Mac...it does the job and I'm comfortable.
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ya yer betcha' This puppy has been warmed over so many times. Must be nice to have a billion bucks and money to burn on pet projects albeit dead ended. I'm afraid this is yet another fool's errand putting out a product that serves no real need and improves no ones lot.
Here in the Lake Washington School District there is a "technology comittee". It's make up is primarily Windows users and we have "incentives" from MS or ex-MS people. The decision was made to blow away the Macs and switch to PCs. So the NT systems came in. Unfortunately someone did'nt do their homework and most of the educational programs did not run on NT so we had a whole year where there was no computer use basically. This finally sort of got resolved. What blows me away is that we don't have the books, extra teaching tools, and personnel but we have spanky new PCs. Priorites seem very whacked. In a world where mostly everything is done through a browser, with a climate of PC, MAC, and Linux...the school moved to the mono PC culture - the absolute lowest common denominator. What realy burns me is that Apple is such an innovator and I think that showing this to kids would be a good thing. In my humble opinion I don't think that Microsoft's monopolistic behaviour, legal judgements, stifling of innovation, quality of software, and use of massive quantities of "slave labour"/outsourcing are good models to hold up in front of kids...I'd much rather have the "Apple Story" of history, innovation, and high design held up to them.
This has come up many times in the past and I must admit every time it has I've had two reactions: 1) it just makes so much sense 2) it just feels right What a world we are living in now, my workstation is Windows, OpenOffice, Mozilla, and a gaggle of other "free" tools and software. I'm in the process of shucking Windows finally. No one is making much money off me and I'm fat and happy. I use this for "work". I also have an iMac...all my non-work media, iPhoto, iTunes, movies and cool fun stuff is on there. Who knows my workstation may move to this at some point. Notice how the most money I have spent is directed to the Apple side of things. I'm willing to pay for what I get. The point is that a bunch of these companies are becoming irrelevant in the new world order. Why on earth do I play with Macs? There is just something about them...that something that differentiates a BMW from a Volkswagon I guess. It's cool. Sun in a precarious position and needs to do something drastic...there are few choices: seems like it's really merge with MS or merge with Apple. I think the latter holds so much more. A merge could push both companys into stronger positions and offer a future that will take us all to some new places. I hate to sound trippy...but there is a hell of a lot of creative and brain poser with the two companies. Like it or not a little Steve Jobs markeging finese could really crank it up.
While my intial experiences with Safari have been very good...what I need and what I believe a lot of Mac people need is a browser I can use at home, at work, at play so to speak. Mozilla fills this need and then some. Of course it's not difficult to shift between browsers, but the feature set and wins to use different ones must be quite substantial. So I'll use Mozilla...it's home now...I can use it on my PC, use it on my Mac...it does the job and I'm comfortable.