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To: krb
I didn’t even have to know that there was some weird indexing scheme that needs to be managed. Apple seems a little complicated in that regard. Hell, almost Windows like :-)

What can I say. They are both computers. Not everything is simple. I wish Apple had a button in the Spotlight preferences that says "Re-Index" that you click and forget. My point was that the "awesome thing" had already been done by Apple (and patented by them) two years before Microsoft included it in Vista... and the Apple version was also accessible by either GUI people or keyboard people.

By the way, Xerox did not invent the Mouse. Douglas Engelbart of the Augmentation Research Center at the Stanford Research Institute invented the computer mouse in 1964. Engelbart received the patent on the mouse in 1970, the same year PARC was founded. Incidentally, Apple ripped off nothing from PARC. Apple paid Xerox about 3 million dollars in pre-IPO preferred stock for two eight-hour visits to PARC and for the use of what Jobs and three Apple engineers learned there.

All of the innovation is been good and amazing for all of us. What counts is the end product that these vendors are selling us, and how well they compete against each other.

There we agree.

111 posted on 10/17/2008 10:03:52 PM PDT by Swordmaker (Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is "AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!)
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To: Swordmaker
What can I say. They are both computers.

Of course I agree that's true, but come on. Apple made a mistake. They undeniably have the best application installation model. You drag a repository to your Application Folder. That's it. An application (and its constituent files) are one big .app file that contains all that is needed to run the app. No need for several dozen things that all need to be in the right place. And registry? Hell no.

They have the most brilliant application model and they screwed up by not letting the typie-thingie automatically know about YOUR APPS. Come on dude, that is foul.

It's almost like they are stuck in the days of their own failure. As if they don't expect people to have butt-loads of Mac apps.

Well that's not the case, at all.

113 posted on 10/17/2008 10:40:26 PM PDT by krb (If you're not outraged, people probably like having you around.)
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