OT: What is the deal with "Joe" versus Travelinman? Is he suddenly
schizo, as he keeps going back and forth, being sockpuppeted, finally
gave up on trying to hide behind a pseudonym but forgot how to change
his identify in one or more newsreaders, or just so embarrassed about
his TM track-record that he's trying to distance himself from it?
Post by i***@mac.comPost by Joe RagostaIf Apple's OS is no better, then Apple has no future. If Apple's OS _is_
better (which is the whole point of Mac advocacy), then you'll have
Apple competing on a level playing field.
I wouldn't call it exactly level. Microsoft still owns the market, and
Apple will be a guest in its house.
Nevermind that the "best product" (in technical terms) on the market
rarely, if ever wins in market share contests. Lots of great products
disappear, only to be supplanted by some cheap, less functional crap
with more marketing muscle and a lower price. The Walwart buyer
mentality has destroyed, or at least severely eroded all the great
innovation and product quality gains of the previous 100 years.
Post by i***@mac.comBallmer has probably been getting bored toying with the Linux partisans
Hardly. He's been flying all over the place trying to stave off Linux
large-scale deployments, and quite often failing. When he's not busy
doing his monkey-boy dance that is. (Judging from that panting, sweating
performance after hopping around on stage for about 20 seconds, a heart
attack is in the cards)
Post by i***@mac.comand is looking forward to this latest challenge to MSFT's dominance.
It takes some Leica-quality rose-colored glasses to consider apple to
be a serious challenge to MSFT's dominance right now.
Sure, the OS is cool, the hardware is boring, unless your idea of
excitement is lots of holes in a chassis and acrylic.
The problem is there has to be something overwhelmingly compelling
about OS X to move people off of Windows, and it can't be what
Apple has been leading with on their website for the last month or
so. Dashboard is the first thing you see, and it's just not
exciting. They should be leading with security, security, security.
A list of every known virus from Windows should be on the home page,
with the words "Never detected on Tiger" scrolling down for hundreds
of lines. The next page could by a list of the thousands of known
spyware items, with the same text. etc, etc.
What pisses off MS desktop customers is not the lack of dashboard, or
spotlight, but fear of getting their drive fried by some kid in Romania
with a C compiler, and the apparent inability of MS to do anything
tangible to stop it, and its been going on for years.
On the server side, it's about price/performance, and that's why Linux
is doing so well replacing MS web servers, MS-SQL databases, Exchange
back-ends, etc. Their stuff is overpriced and under-wonderful.
Post by i***@mac.comPost by Joe RagostaIt all comes down to the OS - where Apple wins big time.
I agree a lot.
Apple could win "big time" with OS X, but only by putting it out on the
market in large quantities. They should be flooding the PC market with
it, even giving it away in some "evaluation, trial period" form, or
something like a Knoppix "live DVD" for PC customers to try it out and
get familiar with it. Of course, they have to write about 10,000
device drivers for it first. :-(
Post by i***@mac.comXP vs. 10.4 on the same hardware is going to open people's eyes I think.
Yeah, all the people that will already buy a Mac. 10.4 won't run on
the same hardware that millions of people run XP on, it'll run on a tiny
fraction of them, the few that have hardware that OS X supports all of
properly, likely to be ONLY those that buy SCUDs unless a miracle happens
and peripheral vendors leap at the chance to implement drivers on
hardware that Apple won't officially support.
Post by i***@mac.com(I had thought Longhorn was going to do this, but it is indeed possible
that Apple will beat LH to market with their own version of "Longhorn", Tiger.
I'm not sure what you mean by "going to do this" wrt LH??? What is LH
going to do, open people's eyes about XP?
Post by i***@mac.comPost by Joe RagostaPost by i***@mac.comApple and Sony should just merge now, let Sony do the ID.
That's one of your more inane suggestions.
More of a joke, though I have always respected Sony's ID.
Yeah, the Playstation 2 is a beauty. *cough*
Post by i***@mac.comSony was doing magnesium VAIO laptops way before Apple discovered titanium.
If Sony's product quality wasn't on the floor, that would be interesting.
Post by i***@mac.comnot that Sony's internal build quality has always matched Apple's.
Understatement of the decade. :-) Their quality hasn't always matched
that of Yugo.
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