Agree. I think that conceptually, Copland has been realized in Mac OSX. The irony of these other hardware "diversions" listed in the article is that they nearly killed Apple. Everyone was focused on cool gadgets. Meanwhile, the OS languished. Theres a parallel with the ephemeral IPhone Mac Users pine for today. I think what everyone doesn't understand about the Iphone is that it's not just a device, but an OS, too. In that space, Apple will be competeing with Palm, Symbian, and WinMobile, who all have working OSs in devices currently marketed. Unless they have an OSX Mobile OS ready to go and that has at least all the features/functionality of the others, I don't see how the IPhone is viable.
Copland.
From Macworld, July 1995: "A fundamental reworking of the Mac system software is in the works--Macworld reveals how this will make the Mac even better
It will do more. It should crash less and use less RAM. It will automate more tasks and reduce desktop clutter. "It" is the next generation of the Macintosh Operating System, a major reworking of the Mac OS. Due in mid to late 1996, this as-yet-unnamed successor to System 7.5, code-named Copland, promises to boost productivity by making the Mac OS operate more efficiently, by building automation into common tasks, by incorporating many features that..." (Any wonder why Win95 got a leg up on Macs when it launched?)
MacUsers everywhere should bow their heads and thank Gil Amelio for killing Copeland and apologize profusely for allowing Steve Jobs for ignominously have him ousted after he cleaned up the excesses on Infinite Loop.
"Yeah and when you stop paying Rhapsody you lose all your music" As a value proposition to me, $15USD per month for access to all of their music library is a very good deal. Here's why: 1. It's more content than one could possibly manage and store physically. 2. It is constantly updated with new releases. 3. I enjoy listening to music far more than managing content files on my systems.
I have an extensive CD collection and have ripped a good portion of it into mp3s. But the amount of time I have spent managing the files has taken too much effort. The backups required to preserve your efforts and the inevitable data integrity problems with file corruption make me think this task is a Sysyphean endeavor. Owning stuff (having physical possession of it) is not all it is made out to me, especially when one is speaking about large catalogs of music or video.
There is one real competitor to ITunes. Rhapsody...That's what the Zune site will look like. You don't need to buy a song to listen of it (more than 30 secs).
Audio on demand...what a concept. It's like having the largest CD library available at your fingertips. And with a "ON the GO" subscription, you can download the music and take it with you. It seems ITunes success is solely due to the zombies who use ITunes with their Ipods and can't seem to learn how to use another application (ie. Rhapsody, MusicMatch, Media Monkey). Once again, AAPL is using hardware to lock in their user base to their own sw and apps.
What about something that a small biz might do, like create an invoice, print a check? Look at the functional differences between Quickbooks for Win vs Quickbooks for Mac and you'll see the issues. A lot less features and a lot less support. Quickbooks is the de facto standard for small biz accounting and bookkeeping. You'd be nuts to use a Mac in a biz setting.
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Agree. I think that conceptually, Copland has been realized in Mac OSX. The irony of these other hardware "diversions" listed in the article is that they nearly killed Apple. Everyone was focused on cool gadgets. Meanwhile, the OS languished. Theres a parallel with the ephemeral IPhone Mac Users pine for today. I think what everyone doesn't understand about the Iphone is that it's not just a device, but an OS, too. In that space, Apple will be competeing with Palm, Symbian, and WinMobile, who all have working OSs in devices currently marketed. Unless they have an OSX Mobile OS ready to go and that has at least all the features/functionality of the others, I don't see how the IPhone is viable.
Copland. From Macworld, July 1995: "A fundamental reworking of the Mac system software is in the works--Macworld reveals how this will make the Mac even better It will do more. It should crash less and use less RAM. It will automate more tasks and reduce desktop clutter. "It" is the next generation of the Macintosh Operating System, a major reworking of the Mac OS. Due in mid to late 1996, this as-yet-unnamed successor to System 7.5, code-named Copland, promises to boost productivity by making the Mac OS operate more efficiently, by building automation into common tasks, by incorporating many features that ..." (Any wonder why Win95 got a leg up on Macs when it launched?)
MacUsers everywhere should bow their heads and thank Gil Amelio for killing Copeland and apologize profusely for allowing Steve Jobs for ignominously have him ousted after he cleaned up the excesses on Infinite Loop.
"Yeah and when you stop paying Rhapsody you lose all your music"
As a value proposition to me, $15USD per month for access to all of their music library is a very good deal.
Here's why:
1. It's more content than one could possibly manage and store physically.
2. It is constantly updated with new releases.
3. I enjoy listening to music far more than managing content files on my systems.
I have an extensive CD collection and have ripped a good portion of it into mp3s. But the amount of time I have spent managing the files has taken too much effort. The backups required to preserve your efforts and the inevitable data integrity problems with file corruption make me think this task is a Sysyphean endeavor.
Owning stuff (having physical possession of it) is not all it is made out to me, especially when one is speaking about large catalogs of music or video.
There is one real competitor to ITunes. Rhapsody...That's what the Zune site will look like. You don't need to buy a song to listen of it (more than 30 secs). Audio on demand...what a concept. It's like having the largest CD library available at your fingertips. And with a "ON the GO" subscription, you can download the music and take it with you. It seems ITunes success is solely due to the zombies who use ITunes with their Ipods and can't seem to learn how to use another application (ie. Rhapsody, MusicMatch, Media Monkey). Once again, AAPL is using hardware to lock in their user base to their own sw and apps.
What's the frequency, Kenneth?
What's the Apple equivalent of an MSCE?
What about something that a small biz might do, like create an invoice, print a check? Look at the functional differences between Quickbooks for Win vs Quickbooks for Mac and you'll see the issues. A lot less features and a lot less support.
Quickbooks is the de facto standard for small biz accounting and bookkeeping.
You'd be nuts to use a Mac in a biz setting.