tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12497746.post1237200029075081888..comments2023-10-21T09:03:16.283-04:00Comments on Life, What the hell is going on?: I'm A PC....Pauliushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01709405037488442948noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12497746.post-91373751090174700902008-05-17T09:49:00.000-04:002008-05-17T09:49:00.000-04:00Haha! I feel almost exactly the same when it comes...Haha! I feel almost exactly the same when it comes to the Mac vs PC thing. I use a PC because its what I can afford right now. However, if I had enough money, I would buy myself a shiny Macbook Pro in a heartbeat. Mostly because I think those things are damned sexy (so in a way you could say that Steve's brilliant plan worked on me), and because there are lots of OSX specific programs that I would gladly burn down a village of helpless indigenous people to have.<BR/><BR/>Also I think the main people who buy Macbook Air's are people who already have 2 macbook pros, an EEEpc and several desktops at home and feel the need to spend the same 3,000 dollars they were planning on wiping their ass with on "The Worlds Thinnest Laptop" <BR/><BR/>The Macbook Air isn't marketed towards regular people, it's marketed towards rich ass motherfuckers. xDDauragonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13547378583122603402noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12497746.post-7237633713031383082008-05-16T09:39:00.000-04:002008-05-16T09:39:00.000-04:00I agree that Mac's are expensive - BUT I detest Wi...I agree that Mac's are expensive - BUT I detest Windows Vista and will therefore buy a mac purely to avoid using Vista......and yes, I think Mac's look funky and cool! :)Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07373345146212060298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12497746.post-1405171670224887562008-05-15T15:50:00.000-04:002008-05-15T15:50:00.000-04:00I see your point now. In that sense, I completely...I see your point now. In that sense, I completely agree.<BR/><BR/>[snip out a bunch of rambling about what is blindingly obvious concerning ROI for entering existing markets vs. the cost of R&D in new areas]<BR/><BR/>I also agree with you about the price. I think the only way a company that large can sustain itself with such a small market share is to, as you said, appear to be "elite" items to own, and consequently charge a premium for them.<BR/><BR/>Though there is something positive to look forward to: with the right PC hardware, you can <A HREF="http://www.osx86project.org/" REL="nofollow">run OSX on a non-Mac system</A>.<BR/><BR/>It's not the full-on "iLife" or whatever term they call it these days, but as I said before, it's not desktop Linux (and therefore has access to such wondrous things as "non-crap fonts" and "Adobe programs without huge UI glitches").<BR/><BR/>The entire Mac vs. PC debate is still stupid, though, since it's not really addressing what makes people like a Mac or a PC. If one were vastly superior to the other, it would just be the de facto OS. For a time, Windows was that OS. Now, they're all starting to level out a bit, and it's a matter of personal preference. For me, it's a matter of productivity.<BR/><BR/>Microsoft pays my bills, but Linux runs my servers.Michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10966646840671938401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12497746.post-30833113519441582222008-05-15T14:08:00.000-04:002008-05-15T14:08:00.000-04:00Michael:I never said these things are 'without sub...Michael:<BR/><BR/>I never said these things are 'without substance', and I'll happily say that the iPod and iPhone and nifty devices.<BR/><BR/>All I said was that Steve Jobs takes EXISTING technology, repackages it and makes it cool. Most of your comment proved my point:<BR/><BR/>What different about the iPod? A clickwheel and a slicker interface. You said yourself that the iPhone's main selling feature is that it's faster and easier to use with a few more features.<BR/><BR/>My point is that there's nothing in the Apple lineup that's actually NEW. Steve Jobs is hailed as a visionary when he really does just re-vamp existing products.<BR/><BR/>The one thing I DID neglect to say, which your comment pointed out, is that Apple DOES make things a lot more intuitive and easier to use.<BR/><BR/>In short, I didn't mean to give the impression that Apple products are worthless or 'without substance'. I'd own an iPhone over its competitors if they were cheaper...and if I wanted a pure work machine I'd consider a mac (again if they weren't so overpriced).<BR/><BR/>My point is, I wasn't being sarcastic when I called Steve Jobs a genius. He honestly is. He took products that only appealed to the hardcore techies, and made them 'cool'. Your average person thinks Apple INVENTED the MP3 player.<BR/><BR/>Yes, these products are great devices and are an improvement over their predecessors...but they're not revolutionary or 'new'.Pauliushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01709405037488442948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12497746.post-29561997982239389342008-05-15T09:57:00.000-04:002008-05-15T09:57:00.000-04:00You bring up some good points, but pretty much glo...You bring up some good points, but pretty much gloss over how OSX, the iPod, and the iPhone <B>are</B> better, and assume that they're all just fashion accessories.<BR/><BR/>OSX runs on a variant of FreeBSD, which honestly, most people could give a crap about, but it's more user friendly than desktop Linux, yet maintains most of the functionality that *nix systems provide. I can run most of these programs through cygwin, so the only appeal OSX holds to me is eye candy, but at the price of OS-hand-holding.<BR/><BR/>Yes, mp3 players did exist before the iPod, but they all had different software interfaces, different methods of transferring songs, and laughable user interfaces. The iPod's clickwheel was a huge leap forward in interactivity. If you've never used one, there's really no good frame of reference to explain how well it actually works. Disclaimer: I do not own an iPod.<BR/><BR/>Regarding the iPhone, it's not so much that it's revolutionary, but that it brings a lot more to the table. I have a smartphone running Windows Mobile 6, and there are a lot of features I wish it just did like an iPhone. I can't drag stuff around on my screen without my CPU screaming in pain, there is no animated <B>anything</B>, the address list sucks (variant of Outlook), and there are simply things you can tell stagnated because of the lack of serious competition. I mean, it's version 6, and the 6.1 update <B>only now</B> is incorporating features its users actually want. Strangely, these features are built into the iPhone. One advantage WM does have, though, is that I can deploy .Net applications to it as easily as if I were transferring an image. I hear the iPhone's SDK is pretty restrictive.<BR/><BR/>Main point being, there are more to these products than simply fashion accessories and status symbols. I will accede that they have become these things and are grossly overpriced, but to say that they have no substance is intellectually dishonest, in my opinion.Michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10966646840671938401noreply@blogger.com