engadget.com — In pretty in depth look at the differences between the two giants and how, perhaps Microsoft is attempting to gives computer users exactly what they want versus Apple who does everything they can to tell us what we want. Very interesting read.
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boybunnyMar 10, 2006
You have a bit of experience, but you havent lived through every stage. I have lived through a fair few more than you have and even I wasn't there in the beginning. My wife was though, and it was so long ago she barely remembers using a C= PET.Yet there is a history going on long before the PET and first gen DOS machines. But thats where the current generation of hardware started.You are not an annoying person, but I HAVE to describe them. I live in a country where there were two computers in the whole country back in 1965... yet I have run into a dozen people who claim they were using one or both of those computers (punch card machines) back when they were 3-6 years old. They are pathetic... but funny... like "Mr Bean" nerds. Me, I started in 1988. Purchased an Amiga 500 after using every available machine in every store. Back then even the Mac was pathetic, the Amiga AND the Atari ST beat the pants off the Mac.
clickmyfaceMar 11, 2006
Hey Silentbob, the term i used was "brought to life." The article makes a claim that Apple doesnt bring users what they want. The statement is entirely counter intuative. The aforementioned things were items that Apple either invented, dusted off, or specifically endorsed as products and standards.And congrats to Xerox for inventing the GUI, but guess what? They had absolutely no idea what to do with it and thought Apple was doing some interesting things so they instructed the project heads to answer any and all questions Apple had. This is not stealing.Bill Gates on the other hand....And anyway, other examples... John Sculley endorsed the CDROM in 1987 declaring that it would be a standard in the Mac and obvoiusly later the industry followed.The Powerbook introduced the first 256 color portable. First built in pointing device (trackball, then later the trackpad). First to put the keyboard toward the BACK (and other ergonomic improvements), Oh, and guess what? First built in ethernet. Sony and Apple partnered in 1984 to make the 31/2" floppy the de-facto standard in computing, and they did it. You hated HyperCard? Good for you. It was the first GUI based programming application. A value you apparently cant recognize.The Laserwriter was the first major mass-market laser printer that sparked the desktop publishing revolution, and was the introduction and standards build for Adobe PostScript. HP developed PCL which was not part of this.etcetc
clickmyfaceMar 11, 2006
Haha@ MacVideo
vaxguruMar 11, 2006
Keir,You just wrote one of the most sound comments I have ever read on Digg. I bow before you...
miaowMar 12, 2006
for me the big hope is a linux OS on a PC that is using Apples hardware designer as an inspiration. The problem with PCs is that they have been so ugly and big in the past. At the moment most casual surfers should probably be using a mini-mac.Im not interested in Apple locking me in the same way Microsoft has. I want a linux Os (or a few competing OS for a competitive price) and a PC that looks nice and small.
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