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While you may find it creaking, myself and many other people find the experience of using Apple software far better than any competing systems. I wouldn't work

While you may find it creaking, myself and many other people find the experience of using Apple software far better than any competing systems. I wouldn't work somewhere that asked me to use Windows. For me, and maybe I'm overly aesthetically sensitive, it would make my day to day life much worse. This is just to say that the authority with which you dismiss Apple's software as a point of differentiation is probably misplaced.

anjc 9y ago
Differentiation also has a precise meaning in literature, and just feeling that software which comes free with Apple hardware is better than other software doesn't indicate product differentiation or a differentiation strategy. That's just personal preference. I'm not saying that you don't/shouldn't genuinely and rightly prefer Apple software, I use Apple devices every day myself. That being said, I'd hazard a guess that you wouldn't use OSX on a Dell as your primary machine? Or iOS on a cheap Android if that were possible?
- valuearb 9y ago
  Yea, you don't understand the definition of product differentiation or differentiation strategy, because iOS and MacOS are poster children for both. You also don't understand that MacOS isn't designed to be a commodity OS that runs on any hardware. It doesn't install with a huge database of video drivers for every possible PC out there. Running MacOS on generic hardware is problematic and not worthwhile, especially when the vast majority of Mac users can get good Mac hardware for less than a fraction of 1% of their billable rate.
  - anjc 9y ago
    Yeah, I understand exactly what the definitions of them are in detail, and somebody saying "It's differentiated because I like it better", which is what the person I replied to wrote, doesn't fit under the definitions. I never said that attributes of Apple's product lines can't be classed as 'differentiated'.
zeveb 9y ago
> While you may find it creaking, myself and many other people find the experience of using Apple software far better than any competing systems. I wouldn't work somewhere that asked me to use Windows. For me, and maybe I'm overly aesthetically sensitive, it would make my day to day life much worse. I agree: Windows is just embarrassingly bad. Fortunately, there is another … I've been using desktop Linux for almost twenty years, and it is in my experience superior to the Mac. It gets out of my way and lets me get my work done. It has multiple tiling window managers. It is the native environment for the best tools. It is truly free, both in terms of liberty and price. It runs on commodity hardware. It's fast. And, IMHO, it can be pretty too.

anjc 9y ago

Differentiation also has a precise meaning in literature, and just feeling that software which comes free with Apple hardware is better than other software doesn't indicate product differentiation or a differentiation strategy. That's just personal preference. I'm not saying that you don't/shouldn't genuinely and rightly prefer Apple software, I use Apple devices every day myself. That being said, I'd hazard a guess that you wouldn't use OSX on a Dell as your primary machine? Or iOS on a cheap Android if that were possible?

valuearb 9y ago
Yea, you don't understand the definition of product differentiation or differentiation strategy, because iOS and MacOS are poster children for both. You also don't understand that MacOS isn't designed to be a commodity OS that runs on any hardware. It doesn't install with a huge database of video drivers for every possible PC out there. Running MacOS on generic hardware is problematic and not worthwhile, especially when the vast majority of Mac users can get good Mac hardware for less than a fraction of 1% of their billable rate.
- anjc 9y ago
  Yeah, I understand exactly what the definitions of them are in detail, and somebody saying "It's differentiated because I like it better", which is what the person I replied to wrote, doesn't fit under the definitions. I never said that attributes of Apple's product lines can't be classed as 'differentiated'.

zeveb 9y ago

> While you may find it creaking, myself and many other people find the experience of using Apple software far better than any competing systems. I wouldn't work somewhere that asked me to use Windows. For me, and maybe I'm overly aesthetically sensitive, it would make my day to day life much worse. I agree: Windows is just embarrassingly bad. Fortunately, there is another … I've been using desktop Linux for almost twenty years, and it is in my experience superior to the Mac. It gets out of my way and lets me get my work done. It has multiple tiling window managers. It is the native environment for the best tools. It is truly free, both in terms of liberty and price. It runs on commodity hardware. It's fast. And, IMHO, it can be pretty too.