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People are buying macs because they want Mac OS X There are about 15 people so far who have said the same thing. Maybe it's true, but it seems to be getting a

People are buying macs because they want Mac OS X There are about 15 people so far who have said the same thing. Maybe it's true, but it seems to be getting a little desperate. I'd wager that many Mac purchasers did not have a long experience with OSX before buying one, nor could they describe in any serious way the differences between various OSes ("It just works". Memo: Windows "Just works" also). They have, however, been exposed to the bountious fruits of Apple's marketing department, and could tell you quite clearly the differences between "I'm a mac" and "I'm a pc". 99.99 percent of the time, using a computer, you are not using the OS but the applications. Firefox, an IDE, a music player, an IM client, etc. These don't vary too much.

KirinDave 18y ago
> There are about 15 people so far who have said the same thing. Maybe it's true, but it seems to be getting a little desperate. I'd wager that many Mac purchasers did not have a long experience with OSX before buying one, nor could they describe in any serious way the differences between various OSes ("It just works". Memo: Windows "Just works" also). They have, however, been exposed to the bountious fruits of Apple's marketing department, and could tell you quite clearly the differences between "I'm a mac" and "I'm a pc". Because the hacker crowd at JavaOne: known for making uninformed and unresearched computer purchases based off marketing. Could you at least try not to be derisive? Why don't you just say, "Go play with your shiny toy, kiddo?" > 99.99 percent of the time, using a computer, you are not using the OS but the applications. Firefox, an IDE, a music player, an IM client, etc. These don't vary too much. Yeah, and even then I like the choices on OS X better. I prefer Adium to Trillium, Safari to Firefox (the Safari web inspector is like firebugz, but fast), iTunes is pretty much the standard player. And then of course, most of my day is spent in a text editor (of which I have a wide variety of excellent choices, from Linux standbys like emacs and vi to modern contenders like TextMate) and a terminal. Why is it that these things are so hard to believe. Is it that hard to imagine?
aaronblohowiak 18y ago
While windows "just works", OS X is the desktop nix that "just works" and works with all the peripherals I own and there is a high-quality ISV market.
river_styx 18y ago
99.99 percent of the time, using a computer, you are not using the OS but the applications. Firefox, an IDE, a music player, an IM client, etc. These don't vary too much. This is actually false. The Mac development culture is far more UI/User-experiece-centric than those of either Windows or Linux, and so the OS X applications tend to be more polished and simply more fun to use. Please try it for a while before trolling.

KirinDave 18y ago

> There are about 15 people so far who have said the same thing. Maybe it's true, but it seems to be getting a little desperate. I'd wager that many Mac purchasers did not have a long experience with OSX before buying one, nor could they describe in any serious way the differences between various OSes ("It just works". Memo: Windows "Just works" also). They have, however, been exposed to the bountious fruits of Apple's marketing department, and could tell you quite clearly the differences between "I'm a mac" and "I'm a pc". Because the hacker crowd at JavaOne: known for making uninformed and unresearched computer purchases based off marketing. Could you at least try not to be derisive? Why don't you just say, "Go play with your shiny toy, kiddo?" > 99.99 percent of the time, using a computer, you are not using the OS but the applications. Firefox, an IDE, a music player, an IM client, etc. These don't vary too much. Yeah, and even then I like the choices on OS X better. I prefer Adium to Trillium, Safari to Firefox (the Safari web inspector is like firebugz, but fast), iTunes is pretty much the standard player. And then of course, most of my day is spent in a text editor (of which I have a wide variety of excellent choices, from Linux standbys like emacs and vi to modern contenders like TextMate) and a terminal. Why is it that these things are so hard to believe. Is it that hard to imagine?

aaronblohowiak 18y ago

While windows "just works", OS X is the desktop nix that "just works" and works with all the peripherals I own and there is a high-quality ISV market.

river_styx 18y ago

99.99 percent of the time, using a computer, you are not using the OS but the applications. Firefox, an IDE, a music player, an IM client, etc. These don't vary too much. This is actually false. The Mac development culture is far more UI/User-experiece-centric than those of either Windows or Linux, and so the OS X applications tend to be more polished and simply more fun to use. Please try it for a while before trolling.