On 11/18/02 7:33 PM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Personally I gave up a long time ago on OS X. Do you think it's to late for > Apple to buy BE from Palm. You think it would have been any better with that option? :) You would still have had to content with: 1) A new disk and file architecture. 2) All your current apps having to run under emulation if you want to use them in BeOS... _IF_ Apple had STILL made great effort to create such a capability in this "what if" scenario. 3) The lag in BeOS compatible applications being released by developers who have to learn a new ball game. 4) All the old ways that we're comfortable in working with Classic Mac OS being revised and improved upon--and therefore obliterated. 5) All your trusted troubleshooting techniques becoming mental boat anchors. My view is that Apple buying the NeXT OS, which itself was already built upon a core that was well used, long maintained and very familiar to MANY OTHER users and entities in the world (UNIX), was the better choice. OS X's UNIX core is placing OS X in a very favorable light. People who had previously dismissed the Mac platform have sit up and taken notice. Being UNIX at it's heart has brought many developers-both commercial and shareware-to our platform who I think would not have done so had Apple gone with Be. The open source community is embracing Mac OS and seeing it as "The Holy Grail" of computing: UNIX with convenience. Their work-a-day, trusted industrial-strength UNIX can now connect to their MP3 player without them having to split the atom. But, what of us? The Mac faithful? Change is never easy. God; there are still a few people who bemoan Apple ditching the Apple II OS (whatever it was called) and going Macintosh OS (with the GUI)! I even spoke with one this weekend! So, you can't make everybody happy, and if you look at the job Apple did resulting in OS X, I think they did a great job and made the right decision. PLUS! The NeXT OS came with one helluva feature: Steve Jobs. His presence at the helm saved Apple. Sure, he can be a dink, sometimes... but he has also surprised the Hell out of me on many occasions where he admitted contritely to some of the realities of the Mac platform and some of the decisions they made. Like, think back (if you were following this period at Apple) to all the changes they really made to Mac OS X during it's beta and public beta period. The Apple menu icon was in the middle of the bar and had NO FUNCTIONALITY at all. You could only open one Finder window at a time. There were no spring-loaded folders. There are surely more that escape my mind at this time, but after listening to the choir (rightfully) wail about these things, they brought them back. That's not the arrogant a$$ I know to be Steve Jobs. A little off topic, but remember the down-clocking scandal when the first Sawtooth G4s came out? People who had pre-orders for the faster ones ended up getting the slower ones--AT THE SAME PRICE AS THE FASTER ONES, because MotoSTINKINGrola couldn't provide enough of the fastest processors. People rightfully got peed, and Jobs said "Good companies make mistakes. Great companies fix them." Hype? You bet. But THEY DID fix the problem, cutting those with pre-orders a price break. Anyway... OS X is a great OS, but it's still slower at more things than OS 9 so far. It'll get faster. It's more stable. It deals with memory much better than 9. It multitasks WAY BETTER than 9. And I have found the differences between OS X and 9 to be preferable, for the most part. Troubleshooting OS X doe concern me... Whenever the day comes when I'll need it, that is. Maybe I've been lucky (I'm being charitable in saying that), but I haven't had any bog problems with it (charitable, because for the most part, I have found that OS X "just works"). BUT! People moving to OS X MUST open their minds to new concepts. It aint your father's Mac OS... And there might be Very Good Reasons� why that's the case. :-) MacDuff PS: I don't mean to direct all of this at you, specifically, but to our other friends on this list who also are resisting the move. Like it or not, OS X running on UNIX is our future for at least the next ten years. And THEN, what must we learn to adapt to...?! -- Mac Canada is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Shop Canadian, visit Mantek Services <http://www.mantek.mb.ca> Low Prices That Will Keep YOU and Your MAC Smiling Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Mac Canada info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/mac-can.shtml> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-canada%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
