by Erebor » Wed Jan 06, 2016 4:33 am
You pigeon-hole correctly.
And my opinion, (since 1994) is well-earned.
For the sake of argument, I pigeon-hole you the opposite way.
You clearly think PCs are superior, no matter what, and you have a "majority rules" mentality. You think that whatever the majority says goes and must be correct. That purposely ignores the fact that the majority of people are morons and always have been. Most of the human population once believed the Earth was flat. Most of the population engages in organized religion. Let's hear you make an argument that either of these groups are correct.
"Majority rules" does not fly when it comes to facts, and I can make a factual argument demonstrating that Macs have been technologically superior to PCs at every level of development since 1984, using a side-by-side comparison. However, I'd prefer not to argue with you either, since I deem it a waste of energy.
Mac users make up 20% of computer users (and rising). Apple had a niche market with iTunes, and releasing it for PCs at all was a bonehead move, in my opinion. They did it solely for the purpose of making a profit, and in the process destroyed whatever leverage they had from a business standpoint to encourage people to by Mac hardware. I believe they actually lost profit, in the long run.
So, software designed to run on Macs doesn't work perfectly when ported to PCs... big deal. You seem to imply something sinister there, when in reality they were gracious to even release a PC version. Let alone, for the moment that Microsoft *deliberately* wrote bugs into its Mac version of IE, so that people would start blaming their Macs, instead of knowing where the real culprit was, and run out and by a new computer.
I would have released it for Mac and Linux, and let that be that.
And, just in case you still value public opinion for anything, social trends are going my way. People are buying more Apple computers (not just iOS devices), and Apple has been the most profitable company on the planet for the majority of the last 5 years (may still be, for all I know). Microsoft is rapidly going into the toilet.
That shows that people can wake up, *eventually*.
You can't stop progress, and you can't keep down superior technology.
For the record, I liked Apple way before it was cool-- during the ten years when some corporate waste of space was running it into the ground. Alas, pre-teens and teenagers don't have generally have a lot of money to invest.
--Erebor
You pigeon-hole correctly.
And my opinion, (since 1994) is well-earned.
For the sake of argument, I pigeon-hole you the opposite way.
You clearly think PCs are superior, no matter what, and you have a "majority rules" mentality. You think that whatever the majority says goes and must be correct. That purposely ignores the fact that the majority of people are morons and always have been. Most of the human population once believed the Earth was flat. Most of the population engages in organized religion. Let's hear you make an argument that either of these groups are correct.
"Majority rules" does not fly when it comes to facts, and I can make a factual argument demonstrating that Macs have been technologically superior to PCs at every level of development since 1984, using a side-by-side comparison. However, I'd prefer not to argue with you either, since I deem it a waste of energy.
Mac users make up 20% of computer users (and rising). Apple had a niche market with iTunes, and releasing it for PCs at all was a bonehead move, in my opinion. They did it solely for the purpose of making a profit, and in the process destroyed whatever leverage they had from a business standpoint to encourage people to by Mac hardware. I believe they actually lost profit, in the long run.
So, software designed to run on Macs doesn't work perfectly when ported to PCs... big deal. You seem to imply something sinister there, when in reality they were gracious to even release a PC version. Let alone, for the moment that Microsoft *deliberately* wrote bugs into its Mac version of IE, so that people would start blaming their Macs, instead of knowing where the real culprit was, and run out and by a new computer.
I would have released it for Mac and Linux, and let that be that.
And, just in case you still value public opinion for anything, social trends are going my way. People are buying more Apple computers (not just iOS devices), and Apple has been the most profitable company on the planet for the majority of the last 5 years (may still be, for all I know). Microsoft is rapidly going into the toilet.
That shows that people can wake up, *eventually*.
You can't stop progress, and you can't keep down superior technology.
For the record, I liked Apple way before it was cool-- during the ten years when some corporate waste of space was running it into the ground. Alas, pre-teens and teenagers don't have generally have a lot of money to invest.
--Erebor