Rant about Apple - What to da about next computer

mikegahan

Not being either a Machead or a Windows lover I see the benefits of both. If Windows did not exist how many of us could afford an Apple?

superscaper

Leopard wrote: »

which they see me using in public.

Not heard of a street Mac user before. Apple performance art is it? (Oh no I've just given Steve Jobs his next marketing campaign idea).

How many macs do you have (out of interest) and what are they?

Leopard

vikingaero wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Face it. Long term Apple will turn into a behemoth like Microsoft.

That's absolutely true. And then, sooner or later, like Megashit now, and IBM before it, Apple will go into decline.

Even stars do that; what hope have companies? (That said, the dinosaurs had a pretty long innings.)

Let's just celebrate and enjoy good kit when it's being made.

I have to say, I've begun wondering what medication they've been giving Jobs after the iDisk icon on my desktop suddenly went a horrible shade of purple and began sporting an image of a cloud.

As for "@me.com", where did Apple's grammar go? - I'm not "me", I'm "I". And I'll be staying "@mac.com".

[Deleted User]

I don't see Steve Jobbs contributing as much of his personal wealth, if at all, to philanthropy as Bill Gates does

Leopard

be_alright wrote: »

I don't see Steve Jobbs contributing as much of his personal wealth, if at all, to philanthropy as Bill Gates does

As you demonstrate daily, B_A, there is a very great deal that you don't see.

superscaper

be_alright wrote: »

I don't see Steve Jobbs contributing as much of his personal wealth, if at all, to philanthropy as Bill Gates does

I know I probably wouldn't if I was in that position. Too greedy. As much as people may bash Bill Gates you can't really say he's greedy if he's the largest philanthropist in history.

adouglasmhor

superscaper wrote: »

I know I probably wouldn't if I was in that position. Too greedy. As much as people may bash Bill Gates you can't really say he's greedy if he's the largest philanthropist in history.

Only after being nagged a good while ago by his team, I think it's not that he was mean, he just thought in such a linear manner it had not occured to him, there are some rumours about high end achieving ASD around him*, he may just think in a different style from most others.

*He does donate very generously to Autism charities.

Leopard

superscaper wrote: »

Not heard of a street Mac user before. Apple performance art is it? (Oh no I've just given Steve Jobs his next marketing campaign idea).

How many macs do you have (out of interest) and what are they?

(Sorry for the delay - had to break off and do a bit of work; you know how it is. :money: )


Well, I call using them in courtrooms, in conference rooms, in board rooms, in media centres, in libraries, in hospitals, at seminars, in trains, in aircraft, on ships and yachts, in transit lounges, in hotels, in bars and in coffee-shops, some of the places where I am seen publicly using my own Macs. :cool:

What Macs do I have?

Er, just six at the moment... : one (highly upgraded) Cube with an Apple 23" Cinema display (about which you know), two MacBook Pro (2.4 GHz) mirrored because I need a backup, one G4 Titanium PowerBook (1 GHz) now just used around the house for emailing and webbing, one G4 Power Mac tower (single 1 GHz, with 4 x 500 GB hard drives) used as a network, Time Machine, file and printer server) and an old Mac SE/30 which sits in the kitchen next the 'phone, happily runs Mac OS 7 and displays recipes, my diary and my address book. My companion also has a MacBook Pro (2.2 GHz) and sometimes pollutes our network with a work-supplied Dell contraption. There are others in our household and the cat has my old G3 PowerMac 6100/66 which can run OS 9.2 but which she uses mostly as a heating device.

Marty_J

I think it's a bit much to wish Bill Gates was never born; Apple certainly wouldn't exist in its present form, neither would OS X or for that matter operating systems in general.

Apple "borrow" just as many ideas from Microsoft as Microsoft do from Apple. The world would be a poorer place without either of them.

And I'd rather go for a drink with Bill Gates than Steve Jobs any day of the week.

diveleader

I love my macs, for design second but for reliability first.
My main Imac also boots into XP, cos sometimes I need to use it.
if 95% of personal computers were Macs and 5% were windows boxes then I think us Mac users would be the ones moaning, even if you just use statistics!
That said, the closed architecture approach will always result in a more stable system.