On Oct 21, 2010, at 6:26 PM, Marta Edie wrote: > Hi, guys, what did you think of yesterday's event? Haven't heard from any of > you. I thought you all had some remarks to bring to the group.
The new Air is a sleek machine. I've been wanting a good replacement for the old 12-inch G4 PowerBook since about 2005, and the 11-inch Air seems to be about right. It certainly should shake up the higher-end netbook market. I've been amused reading the breathless approval of some Applephiles for the refreshing new idea of the Mac App Store. It just seems to me not much more than a software repository with tight controls. These have been around for the Linux distributions for many years. Apple's setup is not much different than the yum/rpm repositories for Red Hat and Fedora, apt-get for the Debian/Ubuntu distributions and even port from the MacPorts project. With all of these, updating and installing software takes just a few clicks. On the other hand, the new Mac App Store may be starting Apple down a road I don’t like. The App Store is not bad, per se, but it seems to be a step toward eventually controlling the Mac software market in the same way Apple controls the software markets for the iPhone and iPad. How long will it be until we have to jailbreak the Mac in order to install software not blessed by Steve's acolytes?
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