On Dec 10, 2011, at 3:56 PM, Joshua MacCraw wrote: > HARDWARE! Windows can run on any mac, can IOS do the same on any wintel > box? NO! Artificial prevention and lack of drivers. >
Well, technically OSX can run on quite a lot of hardware. It breaks the license agreement, but who cares (businesses obviously, but not enthusiasts)? There's a thriving "hackintosh" community. > Right, keep drinking the koolaid. I laugh and point to apples famous 1984 > commercial with the room full of clones. Now that room is full of prius > driving hipsters who think they're unique despite being forced into the > same cookie cutter choices. That's probably the most compelling thing you've said. The apple haters still really rely on "them" not being like "us". See the recent Samsung ads. Of course. I can't really say I understand this point though. Look around any college campus. I'd say easily ~70% of all the computers students are using are Macs. Maybe it's the Mac/PC is more a generational thing? Though on the otherhand, I remember seeing some clips from a FreeBSD convention a few years ago, and a very large number of people there were using Mac laptops. I'm not going to get into lumping computers users into cultural categories (ie, anyone who chooses to buy Apple hardware is a koolaid drinking prius driving hipster who) because I think it's ridiculous. I use Windows computers daily, Mac computers by choice, and use FreeBSD/OpenBSD on my servers by choice. FreeBSD users look down on you all :) I _personally_ believe that Macs offer a better user experience than Windows (I would also say that Macs offer a better experience for system administrators!), but I would not presume to tell anybody else they're idiots for using PCs... Scott
