--Windows, on the other hand, is/was made by suits.--
Uh, yeah, suits alright. The kind you see at a circus.
People talk about Jobs' "reality distortion field." He's one guy! Microsoft has literally thousands of drones and hundreds of millions of marketing dollars to lie to consumers about its products, most of which are HORRIBLE imitations. USB is a good example of this. Has Microsoft now "figured out" how to implement USB in a seamless way in Win98 now that the iMac "forced" people to buy the few USB peripherals that existed for PCs? Give me a break...
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What are you talking about? Ethernet isn't included in 90% of all PCs...
(Disclaimer: I'm a Mac user. Uh, sorry, or something.)
I don't mean this in a negative way, but this kind of analysis typifies the Mac v. PC debate. The typical PC user's assumption being: "I expect to pay no more than _x_ for _blank_ commodity since I saw _blank_ advertised for _x_ somewhere." Whereas the Mac user says "I need to do _y_ with my computer; how can I do this in the most efficient way, where _blank_ commodity is one piece of the puzzle."
For example, while supposedly the Mac is an "ancient" OS compared to Windows, I still don't see an easy way to attach a mass storage device to a PC on a temporary basis to get files on and off the system. Where the Mac user has been used to plugging and unplugging external, portable hard disks (via SCSI) from systems for years as a way of transporting large amounts of data, the PC user still has to suffer through ridiculous gyrations of attaching peripherals to "ancient" I/O systems to do this. I think the best (quickest) way to date to move files on and off a "standard" PC easily is to try to hook up a parallel port Zip drive using the Guest util installed via DOS. A Mac user plugs his/her firewire drive into the firewire port, and instantly has access to gigs of storage (at much higher speeds than a 25 year old parallel port). How "modern" is an OS which doesn't allow people to easily extract data off the system? Not very, IMHO. It might be marginally cheaper on a commodity basis, but in terms of how I'd rather spend my time in front of the computer, there is no comparison.
Trying to quantify the price of this convenience in terms of the price of a commodity hard disk is ridiculous...it completely misses the point: your time has value! Tinkering with a ROM BIOS to activate a parallel port, installing drivers, blah, blah, blah is not pleasant to me.
Sure, you can say "well, that's because you're a Mac user and don't understand how to use a PC." This is true, but guess what: name any task on a PC, and it can be accomplished in an order of magnitude less time and hastle than a PC with a Macintosh.
Yeah, and while we're bashing the industry leaders, $0.25 per system is a far cry from the hundreds of dollars Intel charges as a "licensing" fee for its latest Pentiums, right? I enjoy paying $500 for a piece of ceramic which actually costs pennies to make. I mean, who does Intel think they are, raping us users when they could be giving away their stuff for the good of the industry.
Damn Intel, too, for not letting other companies use "Pentium" as the name of their CPUs--I get so confused when AMD keeps coming out with those damn "K-this" and "K-that" stuff...or is that Cyrix?
Screw those companies who spend millions developing stuff. Anarchy rules, dude. Screw everybody, while I get mine.
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Rock on, Jeff.
--Windows, on the other hand, is/was made by suits.--
Uh, yeah, suits alright. The kind you see at a circus.
People talk about Jobs' "reality distortion field." He's one guy! Microsoft has literally thousands of drones and hundreds of millions of marketing dollars to lie to consumers about its products, most of which are HORRIBLE imitations. USB is a good example of this. Has Microsoft now "figured out" how to implement USB in a seamless way in Win98 now that the iMac "forced" people to buy the few USB peripherals that existed for PCs? Give me a break...
What are you talking about? Ethernet isn't included in 90% of all PCs...
(Disclaimer: I'm a Mac user. Uh, sorry, or something.)
I don't mean this in a negative way, but this kind of analysis typifies the Mac v. PC debate. The typical PC user's assumption being: "I expect to pay no more than _x_ for _blank_ commodity since I saw _blank_ advertised for _x_ somewhere." Whereas the Mac user says "I need to do _y_ with my computer; how can I do this in the most efficient way, where _blank_ commodity is one piece of the puzzle."
For example, while supposedly the Mac is an "ancient" OS compared to Windows, I still don't see an easy way to attach a mass storage device to a PC on a temporary basis to get files on and off the system. Where the Mac user has been used to plugging and unplugging external, portable hard disks (via SCSI) from systems for years as a way of transporting large amounts of data, the PC user still has to suffer through ridiculous gyrations of attaching peripherals to "ancient" I/O systems to do this. I think the best (quickest) way to date to move files on and off a "standard" PC easily is to try to hook up a parallel port Zip drive using the Guest util installed via DOS. A Mac user plugs his/her firewire drive into the firewire port, and instantly has access to gigs of storage (at much higher speeds than a 25 year old parallel port). How "modern" is an OS which doesn't allow people to easily extract data off the system? Not very, IMHO. It might be marginally cheaper on a commodity basis, but in terms of how I'd rather spend my time in front of the computer, there is no comparison.
Trying to quantify the price of this convenience in terms of the price of a commodity hard disk is ridiculous...it completely misses the point: your time has value! Tinkering with a ROM BIOS to activate a parallel port, installing drivers, blah, blah, blah is not pleasant to me.
Sure, you can say "well, that's because you're a Mac user and don't understand how to use a PC." This is true, but guess what: name any task on a PC, and it can be accomplished in an order of magnitude less time and hastle than a PC with a Macintosh.
Yeah, and while we're bashing the industry leaders, $0.25 per system is a far cry from the hundreds of dollars Intel charges as a "licensing" fee for its latest Pentiums, right? I enjoy paying $500 for a piece of ceramic which actually costs pennies to make. I mean, who does Intel think they are, raping us users when they could be giving away their stuff for the good of the industry.
Damn Intel, too, for not letting other companies use "Pentium" as the name of their CPUs--I get so confused when AMD keeps coming out with those damn "K-this" and "K-that" stuff...or is that Cyrix?
Screw those companies who spend millions developing stuff. Anarchy rules, dude. Screw everybody, while I get mine.
Next chapter: the Microsoft foundation.