Really, am I the only one to perceive Apple as just a facade ? I feel it's just a brand name for a target market, absolutely nothing more. I still remember the KHTML fiasco (and the lengthy posts about it in Slashdot) when the white knight turned black. In every action, every decision I see Jobs as a Gates-wanna-be. It's the same kind of company.
I'm not trolling, I'm just trying to understand why Apple is loved so much. Can anyone give reasons, real reasons, for this (beyond the slick design of their hardware) ?
The CPC 6128 was my first computer. As many posters state, it's hard to describe the magic of your first computer. Names like Knight Lore, Ranarama, Head over Heels (and Batman of course!), Three weeks in paradise, the assember genaload (and monaload) come to my mind. You know the feeling.
But the real computer, the real thing, was the Amiga 500. It's extremely hard (impossible?) to describe to newcomers what this computer was for a whole generation of geeks. It was not the 3D, the multichannel music, the blitter, the strange hardware design with several custom chips, etc. It was the spirit. Almost every hacker in Europe had an Amiga. The demos, the intros, the cracktros, the disk magazines, the european diskswappers, all the groups -with their musicians, coders, gfx-artists-. The demo-parties -and even copy-parties-, the demoscene spirit. Well, what can I say? Has any other computer in history had this background ?
For a brief time there was a computer designed by and for geeks and it ruled over all the other computers (unfortunately this meant that it crashed economically later, but that's another history).
Names to remember here ? Too many to mention. Quartex, Paranoimina, Vogue and Mr.H (of course!), Defender of the Crown, Shadow of the Beast, X-Copy, Spaceballs, Nine Fingers, SoundTracker, AMOS and everyone's favorite: Guru meditation.
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Really, am I the only one to perceive Apple as just a facade ? I feel it's just a brand name for a target market, absolutely nothing more. I still remember the KHTML fiasco (and the lengthy posts about it in Slashdot) when the white knight turned black. In every action, every decision I see Jobs as a Gates-wanna-be. It's the same kind of company. I'm not trolling, I'm just trying to understand why Apple is loved so much. Can anyone give reasons, real reasons, for this (beyond the slick design of their hardware) ?
But the real computer, the real thing, was the Amiga 500. It's extremely hard (impossible?) to describe to newcomers what this computer was for a whole generation of geeks. It was not the 3D, the multichannel music, the blitter, the strange hardware design with several custom chips, etc. It was the spirit. Almost every hacker in Europe had an Amiga. The demos, the intros, the cracktros, the disk magazines, the european diskswappers, all the groups -with their musicians, coders, gfx-artists-. The demo-parties -and even copy-parties-, the demoscene spirit. Well, what can I say? Has any other computer in history had this background ?
For a brief time there was a computer designed by and for geeks and it ruled over all the other computers (unfortunately this meant that it crashed economically later, but that's another history).
Names to remember here ? Too many to mention. Quartex, Paranoimina, Vogue and Mr.H (of course!), Defender of the Crown, Shadow of the Beast, X-Copy, Spaceballs, Nine Fingers, SoundTracker, AMOS and everyone's favorite: Guru meditation.