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As a result people were forced to use systems that really didn't work. Yes Windows 7 crashes less than Windows 3.11 but if Microsoft had adequately tested Windo

As a result people were forced to use systems that really didn't work. Yes Windows 7 crashes less than Windows 3.11 but if Microsoft had adequately tested Windows 3.11 it wouldn't have crashed so much and Windows 7 wouldn't crash at all The alternatives aren't perfect. Now you have 2 generations that have grown accustomed to crap. People who shrug off their DVR locking up or their phone crashing because they're used to it. Technology has come to mean unreliable. Much of Apple's popularity has been based around the idea that Apple products "Just Work". Because in our modern world working correctly has become rarity. Obviously some DVR manufacturer's incompetence is Bill Gates' fault. Someone here already made a Hitler comparison so this must be regarded as praise. And how much has that tone cost us? How much good technology could be implemented if people trusted it more? How much further could we have gone if we could have focused more of humanity's intelligence on Curing Cancer and less on Curing the newest malware that exploits one of the endless bugs in Windows? 0. Now that the world is such a better place because the disruptive tech guys are using macs, how much of society's brain-power has gone into eradicating polio and malaria ? 0. It is a very easy to trivialize the problem of wiping a disease off the face of the earth, attacking resource allocation in Africa and then taking aim at another disease. My family couldn't afford a $1k+ mac in the 90s - that was an upper-middle class monthly income in India. Thank god for windows. EDIT : formatting

cooldeal 15y ago
>My family couldn't afford a $1k+ mac in the 90s - that was an upper-middle class monthly income in India. Thank god for windows. If your family made the equivalent of Rs. 50,000 monthly in the 90s in India, they were definitely upper class, not upper middle class.
- sliverstorm 15y ago
  Wait, you're saying that because his family couldn't afford a Mac, obviously he was upper class? I suppose I must be better off than I thought. I can't afford a Ferrari, so I must be doing really well for myself.
  - recoiledsnake 15y ago
    You misunderstand. $1000/month is a pretty high salary in India even now. In the 90s, someone making the equivalent of that much would be considered upper class, not upper middle class. This has nothing to do with Macs or Ferraris.
    - sliverstorm 15y ago
      Parent: My family couldn't afford a $1k+ mac in the 90s Reply: Your family was making $1k/month? You were wealthy! The logical flow here is the same as if I said, "I can't afford a Ferrari" and someone replied with "you can afford a Ferrari!?"
      - Androsynth 15y ago
        parent: my family couldnt afford $1k/month, that is upper middle class reply: a family making $1k/month is upper class actually
  - shriphani 15y ago
    No his point is valid. 50k gets you a very good lifestyle - enough for a good house, 3 very solid meals, a very good school and every opportunity to better your life going forward. I definitely did not experience any financial troubles growing up (and my family left the country later so that worked out well for us). But that doesn't correlate well with a good life in America - very different definitions of luxuries.

cooldeal 15y ago

>My family couldn't afford a $1k+ mac in the 90s - that was an upper-middle class monthly income in India. Thank god for windows. If your family made the equivalent of Rs. 50,000 monthly in the 90s in India, they were definitely upper class, not upper middle class.

sliverstorm 15y ago
Wait, you're saying that because his family couldn't afford a Mac, obviously he was upper class? I suppose I must be better off than I thought. I can't afford a Ferrari, so I must be doing really well for myself.
- recoiledsnake 15y ago
  You misunderstand. $1000/month is a pretty high salary in India even now. In the 90s, someone making the equivalent of that much would be considered upper class, not upper middle class. This has nothing to do with Macs or Ferraris.
  - sliverstorm 15y ago
    Parent: My family couldn't afford a $1k+ mac in the 90s Reply: Your family was making $1k/month? You were wealthy! The logical flow here is the same as if I said, "I can't afford a Ferrari" and someone replied with "you can afford a Ferrari!?"
    - Androsynth 15y ago
      parent: my family couldnt afford $1k/month, that is upper middle class reply: a family making $1k/month is upper class actually
- shriphani 15y ago
  No his point is valid. 50k gets you a very good lifestyle - enough for a good house, 3 very solid meals, a very good school and every opportunity to better your life going forward. I definitely did not experience any financial troubles growing up (and my family left the country later so that worked out well for us). But that doesn't correlate well with a good life in America - very different definitions of luxuries.