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Firstly, let me say that I don’t hate Apple or it’s products. I dislike them and how they’re all so meshed together and the fact that they scoff in the general direction of Linux doesn’t help them much either… but I don’t hate the company. Their users (or at least the more vocal ones) on the other hand can burn in a fiery blaze with every other fanboy out there. Enthusiast, early adopters, and just the run of the mill user is cool by my standards; I myself am the first two at the very least with regards to Linux and Google. What kills me are those that insist that their product can do no wrong that bother me.
If I told you that I invented a hammer that would make all other bashing devices useless you would probably think that I was crazy. A hammer that can be precise enough for small work but at the same time capable of smashing cinder blocks, etc? Come on…
More than that, what ever happened to variety. What if this thing was that good but you just liked working with your good old sledgehammer when doing some heavy work? Maybe you’ll miss the wooden handle on your old carpenters hammer. Maybe you just don’t like the company that makes the UltraHammer?
Here’s something to ponder. The 90% of the market uses PC’s for better or for worse. As a Linux guy it’s a painful reality. That means that most software written is for the PC, most technicians only understand how to use a PC but sadly, most viruses are written for the PC.
When I hear that some guy in charge of a school decides to use the budget which he’s in charge of to buy Macs for the whole school I just lose it. Does he realize that most tech support and most of his staff will have to be retrained (if not get a drop in their own personal efficiency)? Does he realize that he’s also wasting a good deal of money when he could have saved money?
I like Linux and yes, my dad’s running it upstairs but you know why I choose to give it to him? Because he only needs the internet and Picasa. Since he’s got all of those things on Linux I don’t have to worry about his doing something terrible to his machine by accident and the distro won’t go stale. Would I do it for my grandmother? NO! Why? Because she likes AOL, she likes Peggle, she does things that Linux WILL NOT DO. So she runs XP, has been for years. I wouldn’t force a system on her that she wouldn’t be happy with, I know my audience.
So here’s a heads up, Apple rose from nothing in the 80’s and disappeared after the competition started cranking out the variety of similar products and there’s still a good chance it will happen again. Oh, and think of this… if Apple didn’t lose all those years in the spotlight to Windows/PCs then there would be no hardware market as we know it and probably no gaming market as we know it either (like it or not but the hard core enthusiast was what kept the hardware market and in turn the gaming market bolting forward).
Maybe this is just my opinion (it is) but for crying out loud, Apple is not the perfect anything any more than Nintendo Wii is the perfect gaming console because it sold so well; it just happened to open a new market. Pop Cap games would tell us that there are a great deal of gamers that are female; too bad almost all of those female “gamers” are hooked on bejeweled and the virtual doll house known as “The Sims”.
LAME.
