On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 11:43 AM, Alan Bourke <[email protected]>wrote:
> I don't think Apple are much different from Microsoft in their attitude > to users. Look what they did to iWork for example. I'm not a daily OS X user. What's the iWork story? I'm very ambivalent on Apple. I think their hardware is, simply, beautiful. I think their service and that of their top-tier retailers is excellent. I think their prices are competitive, side-by-side, with equivalent top-tier hardware and OS and software prices. Their top-of-the-line is higher than others, and their prices for their top items are always very high. People willing to pay those kind of prices get great stuff. DRM is bad, but they have made it palatable to the tune (pun intended) of ten billion sales or something. I don't support a rental design for songs and video; I think it violates the principles of copyright. Their proprietary desktop on top of BSD has issues as any closed software does. iPod, iPad, iPhone are all closed, proprietary devices Their stores are a jail. They don't allow some competing software, they don't allow products they feel violate some social norms, and they screw up and allow malware every once in a while. But I don't think they intend to make the kind of computers most people here want. They make consumer goods. Friends and family love their Apples and will not give them up. Service experiences don't change that attitude. The high cost is not a deterrent, in fact, there's likely a little conspicuous consumption going on there. These are not machines made for Windows developers, however. Ruby on Rails developers, on the other hand, have flocked to OS X. In a large conference I attended a few years ago, I was accutely aware that there was one HP laptop, one Dell laptop, and my Lenovo laptop in a sea of MacBooks. I was impressed, though not swayed. I'm no representative user, either: I spend my life toggling between browser windows and color terminals. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/CACW6n4swsG=Cexd7+O=SK3uR5moqFGShVLeQoq=eflbvqmz...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
