On Sep 23, 2008, at 4:33 PM, gerald wrote:
this article is the biggest joke i have ever seen as an argument to
put micks in to a biz app environment.
1. get the files transfered for free
woopee
This can be a big deal for someone switching. At the end of the
exercise, their address book, claendar, and even mail have all been
transferred. Their music and photos are in place. They are ready to
begin working
2.lepard is intuitive
my wife has run OS's since before os existed(cpm), through all the
xerox systems(alto,star,), windoz systems, . she has lepard now.
she sez it's tough. when i try to run it, i can barely turn on the
machine.
It is amazing to me that I see so many people who have easily made the
switch, and within a week or so, they are very comfortable using their
new Macs.
The approach I suggest is not "In Windows I did this. Now X&$&$&XXX*^%*
%^*, where is it on this X*(&Y^%%$*OI Mac? The approach that works is
I want to do XX, let me find the way to do it.
3.no viruses
agreed. nobody cares, and most macs are not on a corporate network
where there may be something to screw up or steal.
It is amazing how many Macs are moving on to corporate networks each
day. If the IT staff has an open mind, things can go very successfully
4.hundreds of biz apps.
yeah, like hallmark cards, address books, ported over ms apps etc.
what about a good intregrated data base program that will handle
2-3000 customers and 10-20,000skews(that is not a real big
company)? bar codes, direct mail, payroll,pos, contact manager. and
at reasonable price. i had all of those(no pos, contact mgr) in
1990 when mac was trying to get a xerox unit to call a big mac.
even getting a couple of fonts was pure hell, and very
expensive.
No Hallmark cards, but FileMaker Pro (which is cross-platform and
works with SQL etc.) is a darn good database. Much of what you are
complaining about was fixed almost 10 years ago.
5. apple support
does apple support 3rd party software?
No, but there are many fine support personnel, trained and certified
by Apple who can give a hand
6* networking
applenet???????????remember that???? they network well now. they
use the industry standard networking. no more propriatry
applesomethings.
This, once again is a problem solved long ago.
You are allowed to like or dislike whatever you want, but your dislike
does not make your opinions fact. The Macintosh OS is robust, stable
and easy to support. But all of that is lost on someone who does not
want to look at the other side of the street.
Pat
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