Posted on 04/28/2010 2:41:25 AM PDT by Swordmaker
I am rarely on your boring Mac promotion threads these days... Ever since the Gangsters of Cuppertino choked their competition PsyStar to death. I finally put your beloved OSX on a generic machine. My thoughts were, “Is this what all the fuss is about?” “Is That All There Is?”
Actually I remembered it as -— Asurbandinipal ....but google straightened that out
I’ll see what I can do with it anyway...Yeah I saw it was a player whatever that it. I got 50% of my good computer ideas from FR posters
Wall Street pimps AAPL relentlessly. They must be users and same for their children. This action accounts for at least half of the AAPL stock price
OK so you guys are the darlings of Wall Street. I get it!
Now I wonder, could there be something to buying the whole system from one vendor that makes things operate more smoothly and provides a better user experience. Hmmmm.....
Exactly so.
Of course, the same is true from a software-only perspective with regard to Microsoft. If you ONLY buy Microsoft products, you get a very high degree of integration and cross-compatibility (almost as good as Apple's).
So if you want to go that route, get top-dollar name-brand PC hardware and load it full of Microsoft software. I'm anything but a Microsoft fanboy, but I gotta say, it'll be one hell of a machine. The problem is, when you're done, you've generally spent more than if you'd bought a comparable system from Apple.
But if you don't like the Mac interface (and many reasonable people do not), it's a legit way to go.
Surely we have to have an exception for IE?
Yeah, IE sucked since its inception, although with IE8 they've finally come around to having a useful product, at last. I still hate it, but at least I can use it without screaming at it constantly, when I have to (MSDN downloads, Windows Updates, etc.).
The products that Microsoft developed from scratch are generally better sooner, than the ones they bought from somewhere else (like IE, which was Mosaic, the poor precursor to Netscape). The Microsoft technique, of making whatever they sell into the de facto standard by stomping everybody else, bites them in their own ass fairly often, and IE is the classic example. They were stuck supporting its broken crap for many years, until they finally gave up and started doing what works, with IE8.
Just as Vista was the best marketing campaign ever done on behalf of the Mac, IE6 was the best marketing campaign ever done for Firefox. Microsoft is still the market leader in both those categories, but they took some serious hits by producing crap.
thanx!
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