On Tuesday, September 24, 2002, at 09:53 am, Ric Phillips wrote: > MS, though not makers of hardware - to any great extent - Can you name 1 computer actually made by Microsoft, ever? Or are you talking about joysticks?
> Hardware may or may not be an essential part of a platform. Oracles, > Sun, and SAP are also 'platform' vendors - in different market sectors. and you're saying people who buy a Sun computer are consider the OS before the hardware? Do you consider the merits of the stereo system and/or paint job of a car before you buy it? > This is a new platform - not simply an extension of the old Apple > platform. You're right it's an extension of the Next platform, mixed with FreeBSD. There's virtually nothing left of the old Mac OS except the name. > My 'guess' is that most PERL hackers would most likely be living in the > 'colonies' of Apple's current platform. Which colony, in which Empire, on which planet are you living in?You do know that this is a 'PERL' list don't you? > If you are one of these frontiersmen, you are most definitely NOT the > person the > current Apple 'platform' was conceived and developed for. I think you should go and have a look at the apple website - like any company, Apple doesn't care who buys its products or for what, just as long as they sell, and to aid this they have put lots of small enducements into OSX - like why it can have more Windows like behaviour for users or network easily with a windows network, or comes with a unix disk formatting option and optional unix networking styles, or display more Mac like features - hidden internals, no technical knowledge required to use programs and no command line with cryptic commands. But at the end of the day people buy OSX because they need a new computer.
