Apple kicks butt, but WHY? Ping!
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Well, I did note that the Pink Phone event by Microsoft this week just highlighted the PUG UGLY design that MSFT chose was cringe worthy.
Microsoft is bucks up. Why can’t they hire an industrial designer? Unless they are committed to pug-ugliness.
Apple is like Obama. It has a bunch of highly loyal fans who are blinded to reality. Loyalty to Obama or Apple requires a hge dose of cognitive dissonance.
I loaded OSX on a generic PC and was very unimpressed by its clunky, boxy, Linux like look. With red,green, yellow stoplight buttons on the windows? lol/ Windows 7 is a lot prettier. I used it for an hour then realized, that for all the Apple propaganda on Free Republic, “There is no there, there”
Maybe the iphone is way ahead of the pack but the latest grooviest OSX is a big yawn for this Windows7 user and early adopter (Betas)
Apple’s only marketing ploy seems to be insulting Microsoft. Not that they can stand on their own, or solve business problems. Just that they aren’t microsoft.
But if you want to talk phones lets talk the droid which is kicking everyones butt.
But know their boycott of advertising on Fox News means they hate Conservatives with every shred of their existence.
Umm, because they are a monopoly?
I tend to be anti-apple and PC-agnostic - not really a PC fan, not really a detractor. That said.
I have a Lenovo laptop (work) (XP) and a retired mac desktop (G4, G5 I don’t really know or care) that I use to run VNC at work.
Starting up the Lenovo Desktop and getting all my apps to a running state can take 5 to 10 mins on a good day.
Starting the Mac from a cold start takes maybe 30 secs max.
I wish Windoze could get their products to start in a reasonable time frame.
Of course I work around this by putting the laptop into sleep mode and to unsleep the thing like really just mere seconds.
But it really shouldn’t take forever for Windoze to boot up (or shut down for that matter which takes about as long).
“Usability in software”
Without a doubt Apple gets it. Software is so complex and tries to do everything before a user even knows they want to do it that it is a PTA. Apple doesn’t do everything but what it does do it usally does well, easily, and without fuss.
Apple doesn’t have those nagging popup windows that say, “I notice you were typing a letter, would you like me to...”
Apple doesn’t have backtalking applications that ask, “Are you sure you want to close this document?”
Apple doesn’t have a million popup windows every time you connect a USB memory stick,: “Found new Hardware.”, “Hardware drivers found.”, “Hardware installed. “, “New disk drive found.”, “Disc drive ready.”, “Disc ddrive located at I:.”, “Disc driver now ready to use.”, and on and on and on.
Apple doesn’t have a lot of annoying crap Windows and Linux have. It doesn’t take a software engineer to run the damned things.
I have had Mac, PC and Linux running together in my office for over 5 years now. Over that time, Linux has finally become usable for the average person. The Macs hardly ever get used now. The Win 7 machines rule the roost.
Mac people convinced me they were better, stronger, faster and easier to use. It was complete BS. The’re just white. They aren’t faster, better or easier than either my Win boxes or Linux boxes. OSX is just another operating system, on a more expensive computer, with less software available. If you want to run garage band, by all means, get a Mac.
If you are considering Linux, go with Ubuntu. It is an excellent desktop operating system. The latest OpenOffice will handle your word processing, spreadsheet and presentation management tasks for free. GIMP replaces photo editing software (free) and there are lots of free email/internet options. I’ve had none of the network printing problems I had with older versions of Redhat and Fedora. It has the best version of Mahjong.
Hmmm, but with this sort of WYSIWYG “usability” comes opacity, which means that the user has no real idea what’s going on under the hood, and thus is quite easy to lead by the nose. MS uses opacity, too, but not nearly so much as Apple does. Most *nix-based systems do not, of course, have the same sort of opacity problems.
first a dislaimer.
Not a mac user and have no intention of doing so.
that said,
Taking out the Mac issues. Usability is 100% lost on some programers. I have been to trade shows where there inevitably a new software package which supposed to do what is needed for the industry.
The problem is that it does not integrate with MS office and is generally a few years behind the times AND requires training because it is not intuative.
Until all phones integrate the same way into current office environments, the iphone app store is just for toys. I am just waiting for the screens to catch up so iphone apps can be ported over to other phone os’s