On Dec 26, 2011, at 4:56 PM, Neil Laubenthal wrote: > > It isn't a perfect world . . .but then at least it isn't Windows. One of the > reasons for Apple's traditional stability (at least since Mac OS X shipped, 9 > was a different story) and security advantages is the limited set of hardware > their OS needs to work with . . .this makes things like drivers a whole lot > easier to maintain. Are their bugs in Lion and drivers? Sure . . .there are > almost always bugs in software.
I don't see greater stability or security advantages with Mac OS X compared to linux. Quite frankly the converse. It is much more esoteric tracking down drivers on linux, should they be needed. But I think this has far less to do with integration, but as you say - a limited set of hardware choices with which customers can become derailed. And then the pre-Mac OS X era absolutely demonstrates how you can have integrated OS and hardware, and yet have abysmal stability. And yes - Windows. It's like experiencing a dog vomitting on your shoes, once per minute, until logging out. The one exception there *might* be is Windows Phone 7 (despite it's 1% market share, I give Microsoft more credit for the long haul in this area than Symbian or RIM; other than the lack of apps, it's actually seemingly more refined than Android.) Chris Murphy _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
