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A fan? We're not sitting on the sidelines hoping they score. Most of us professionals make a living and have invested of thousands of dollars (if not 10k, 100k,
by radley 14y ago
A fan? We're not sitting on the sidelines hoping they score. Most of us professionals make a living and have invested of thousands of dollars (if not 10k, 100k, or > 1M) into the platform.
It's not that they're turning OSX into a consumer platform. It's that they're doing it so clumsily, with such garish hubris and lack of focus or reality, that it's worrisome.
- taligent 14y agoOSX was ALWAYS designed as a consumer platform and has been part of the reason for Apple's growth in the consumer sector. So not sure what you mean ?
- radley 14y agoAdobe kept the ship afloat in the 90s until the iMac appeared. I will concede that I forgot how long ago Apple started going consumer centric. Maybe I just felt iMacs were geared towards young artists.
- jamesbritt 14y agoMaybe I just felt iMacs were geared towards young artists. Young artists become older artists who continue buying hardware and software.
- slurgfest 14y agoThe problem here isn't Apple's advertisement. The problem is that you have bet the farm on a tightly regulated, centralized, closed platform over which you have no control.
- enjo 14y agoWhat's a "consumer platform" exactly?
- tsahyt 14y agoA very blunt reply would be: A dumbed down one. Really, I think it's hard to dumb down an operating system enough to make it impossible to be productive with it. However, one can try. To my terms a consumer is the exact opposite of a producer. Therefore a consumer platform is obviously a platform for people who consume products, like software, and whatever they've got on iTunes, rather than for those who make it. Now this is a bit awkward, cause you provably can still do productive work on OSX - lots of people do that rather successfully. So it's really hard to put your finger on what exactly is "consumer" about it and since I haven't used OSX more than a couple of hours (didn't like it), I frankly don't really know. Maybe somebody else can elaborate on that?
- jjtheblunt 14y agoWhat?