Acer Founder: Apple is Like a Mutant Virus

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Thread cleaned. The next person throwing abuse around goes on vacation.

 

[crus_russ]

You know whats funny, the more I use my macbook pro the more I forget how bad windows was. Still need it for gaming but that's about it.

Once office for mac 2011 is released I can safely do away with my windows virtual machine and be free of it for good (except my gaming rig of course

 

[royalcrown]

MacOS, where do I start on this one. Its a very closed platform with each of its components controlled by the manufacturer. Right down to the HW it allows you to use. That is correct, your OS is dictating to you, at the behest of a company what HW you are allowed to use. If you desire to use a piece of HW not marketed and approved by Apple, your hosed. To develop an application for MacOS requires the developer jump through hoops and sign onto the Apple way of business. Now because a single entity controls all the standards and the HW those standards run on the system as a whole works very well. Its efficient and streamlined. Its also prohibitively expensive due to lack of competition. And if what you want is not within Apples idea of what you should use, your just screwed with little to no recourse. You can't just acquire a new HW and put MacOS onto it, you must purchase a ~special~ Apple approved system which is sold at a significant mark up.

All in all it obvious which direction the worlds going in. Windows will dominate the consumer market due to application base, with Linux slowly gaining more ground but always being a niche system until someone solidifys it. And MacOS will always be for those same people who enjoy over priced name brand clothing, for its label value.
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[royalcrown]

[citation][nom]EnFoRceR22[/nom]MacOS, where do I start on this one. Its a very closed platform with each of its components controlled by the manufacturer. Right down to the HW it allows you to use. That is correct, your OS is dictating to you, at the behest of a company what HW you are allowed to use. If you desire to use a piece of HW not marketed and approved by Apple, your hosed. To develop an application for MacOS requires the developer jump through hoops and sign onto the Apple way of business. Now because a single entity controls all the standards and the HW those standards run on the system as a whole works very well. Its efficient and streamlined. Its also prohibitively expensive due to lack of competition. And if what you want is not within Apples idea of what you should use, your just screwed with little to no recourse. You can't just acquire a new HW and put MacOS onto it, you must purchase a ~special~ Apple approved system which is sold at a significant mark up.

All in all it obvious which direction the worlds going in. Windows will dominate the consumer market due to application base, with Linux slowly gaining more ground but always being a niche system until someone solidifys it. And MacOS will always be for those same people who enjoy over priced name brand clothing, for its label value.
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You know what, that is ridiculous, I switched to OS X out of curiosity. Os X runs circles around Windows 7 as far responsiveness and speed on the very same pc hardware. Granted that it is probably because OS X does not have to support every device ever made (windows). Having an OS that runs more efficiently leaves more power for your apps to use. There are a lot of cool Apple programs too, they do tend to be simpler as far as advanced features; but how many super advanced features does the average home user need to crop a photo or listen to music or make a video... not a lot ?

I like both windows and OS X, but windows is pretty big and fat considering it and OS X have the same level of functionality out of the box.

To the guy that said OS X was based on debian linux...fail, it is based on UNIX, which linux is based on also.

 

[royalcrown]

Stan Shih may have some points, but he's still spewing self serving A$5 hatness with his smack talk ! I'd argue that while an Imac is high priced, it's also nice looking and efficient and that ONE cable out the back beats the hell out of the rats nest of cables most pc's require. Go to Best Buy and actually look at one, then go to the PC section and look at the new HP and other all in one clones. Apple must be doing something right or they wouldn't be being copied (dell studio, gateway a few years back, hp)

 

[crus_russ]

[citation][nom]royalcrown[/nom]And MacOS will always be for those same people who enjoy over priced name brand clothing, for its label value..[/citation]

I disagree. I didn't buy into Apple because it was a name brand for the label value. I bought into it because it is easier to use, does the job it needs to without downloading tonnes of custom apps (usually full of bloatware). Everything on an apple just works out of the box.

Likewise, if Apple were to release a crummy product, Apple users would abandon it like wildfire.

 

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Royal i think you quoted the wrong person. I was simply making an argument about closed systems not the use of apple of windows for the user. Thats all dependant on what the user wants.