On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 01:29, Richard Lockwood <[email protected]> wrote: > Use a PC. > > Macs are consumer hardware - and it's never been suggested that > they're anything else.
Er, eh? Are we talking about the same thing, here? _iPads and iPhones_ are consumer hardware, no shadow of a doubt. OTOH, Apple has quite regularly suggested that Macs aren't necessarily consumer-focused. I don't think most consumers would care that 10.5 was certified UNIX, for example (or even know what that means, for that matter). > Don't forget, the vast majority of people want their computer to "just > work" - and that means: email, web browsing, basic word processing and > maybe a spreadsheet. Oh, and handling their digital photos. And maybe > their home videos. That I’ll agree with, though. > It's only people on this list who give more than a pico-shit* about > making it do something interesting and different. To be honest, it's worth bearing in mind that a) It's still very early days for iPhone OS - Apple has a backwards-compatibility nightmare with Mac OS X, and doesn't want to fall into the same trap where it has the opportunity to do things cleanly - things get added when Apple can figure out how to do them in a way which it is happy with (cf. Copy & Paste, and also a few of the features appearing in 3.2) b) It's a first-generation device c) Apple won't be the only people producing tablets which work d) If all of this is as wildly successful as people seem to be predicting/Apple would like, they'll have no choice but to open things up I reckon this will happen before long, though: http://nevali.net/post/363412864/unlock-in M. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
