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So this version has: - an ubuntu netbook remix clone (OMG A SCREEN FULL OF ICONS!) but with even more blur, - built-in F11 key - Compiz ring switching plugin
by gcr 16y ago
So this version has:
- an ubuntu netbook remix clone (OMG A SCREEN FULL OF ICONS!) but with even more blur,
- built-in F11 key
- Compiz ring switching plugin
- a trackpad, but rebranded!
- automatic saving, but rebranded!
- time machine, but rebranded!
- "suspend" instead of "shut down", but rebranded!
- thunderbird's default email layout
- gmail's threads, but rebranded!
- ripoff of giver (a Novell engineer's 2007 hack day project, see http://code.google.com/p/giver/ http://code.google.com/p/giver/ )
- ripoff of LUKS
- a "server" control panel program
Why do people pay for this?
- wriq 16y ago"Why do people pay for this?" Cause the implementation of a feature is more important than the feature itself. Apple rarely comes up with new tech on its own. They rebrand existing tech and work on the experience to create a product and a platform. Seriously, who in the general public knows what LUKS is?
- foobarbazetc 16y agoBecause it just works.
- code_duck 16y agoMac OS itself is great. I don't mind paying for a version as part of a new machine. The update, though, isn't necessarily exciting enough to me to pay for.
- kentosi 16y ago> Why do people pay for this? So that you don't have to bother installing each of these items separately. No downloading, config files, drivers, etc. It's all just there.