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To: roadcat

Exactly the problem w/ Macs:

“Apple’s strategy is really simple. What we want to do is we want to put an incredibly great computer in a book that you can carry around with you and learn how to use in 20 minutes.”

Well, so much for that theory: my wife just spent 30 minutes trying to figure out how to open a file on her MacBook Air in the Apple video editor. She couldn’t even find the downloaded file. I grabbed it on my PC tablet and loaded it into my 3rd party editor, voila. If it’s not obvious on a Mac, forget it.

Windows takes more time to perfect but the freedom to do as you want is liberating from the limiting world of Apple.


36 posted on 06/21/2017 4:20:26 PM PDT by nicollo (MAGA)
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To: nicollo
Windows takes more time to perfect but the freedom to do as you want is liberating from the limiting world of Apple.

I made an observation in another post, that one time I found a lot of Macs in use at a police department headquarters. Reason is, that cops hate Windows PCs because they are difficult to use and prone to having problems. At another site I supported, my group replaced a Windows laptop with a bullet hole through the screen. Cop said it was unintentional, my guys just said uh-huh and replaced it. Say what you will about Macs, they are easier to use than Windows. I was a Windows/NT server admin and network administrator, so I'm no stranger to Windows. Anyone can learn how to use any machine with the appropriate training and time. I can easily find any file with editors on UNIX machines, so your example is meaningless. The learning curve on Macs is much shorter than Windows PCs.

37 posted on 06/21/2017 5:32:32 PM PDT by roadcat
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