That said, I'm sorry I missed this one for so long! :-)
Posted on 07/01/2009 2:14:14 PM PDT by Blue Highway
It seems like every time I venture into an Apple thread here on FR, it's similar to venturing over into Democratic Underground territory.
Personal attacks abound especially if you start criticizing Apple products or other Apple users for being naive into thinking Apple is everything their clever marketing department represents it to be.
It seems like the Mac ping list alerts the faithful flock to defend Apple to the death and that is when the claws come out and it starts to get ugly.
Cool! 300+ posts! This MUST be the Longest Mac-war Thread Ever!
By the way, I was reply #300... Don’t I get a toaster or something for that accomplishment? :-)
I’m sorry. I think my observation was too caustic and too personal.
Best Regards,
CL
So I guess loyalty and honor mean nothing to you. You fanny around with your Dell tramp while a tragically mutilated G4 suffers the humiliation of hinge therapy as she wonders if you'll ever return.
Maybe the Dell would enjoy a nice trip TO ARGENTINA!!!
It wasn’t Apple hardware or software that was responsible for my transition away from Mac. It was the simple realities of the industry segment I serve: EDA, test and measurement software, process control, and the like. Apple never went down this road, and I never left it. That’s really all there is to it.
Yes, but would that have been an issue if Apple had been using Intel chips and Unix- with the concurrent ability to run Windows? It seems to me that in such case you wouldn't have felt compelled to switch.My opinion is that computers are going to continue getting physically smaller and electronically bigger - and that they are eventually going to become verbal. You'll talk to them, and they'll talk to you.
fyi ping
Just curious. Were you working with National Instruments?
>> Yes, but would that have been an issue if Apple had been using Intel chips and Unix- with the concurrent ability to run Windows? It seems to me that in such case you wouldn’t have felt compelled to switch.
Maybe. But it’s not merely a case of chosen platform; it’s also a case of strategy, support and market savvy on the part of the platform vendor. It was just never there from Apple for industrial applications.
Side comment: many PC advocates, including some on this thread, speak of the advantages of “open architecture” — you can roll your own hardware, customize as you like. No one yet has spoken of the parallel advantage of “open market strategy”, so I’ll mention it here. When the Apple platform was closed, and Apple controlled the game, you were at their mercy as far as what markets they deemed strategically important. Whereas anyone could adopt the Wintel architecture, “roll their own” strategy, and attack any market they chose to attack without foot-dragging or resistance from the hardware platform maker.
Apple made feeble attempts to embrace the industrial market, even as far back as the late ‘80s and early ‘90s. I still have an old Apple-logoed tradeshow sweatshirt from the ‘80s for “Autofact”, a factory automation show. I was in the Apple booth with another vendor. We were fish out of water — very “ronery” during that show.
In spite of Apple’s meager support, in various companies I have pushed Macs into industrial applications with success. The hardware and software are up to the job.
But, Apple saw profitability in K-12, desktop publishing, and the corporate desktop — not in industrial applications. Still the case.
Ok, Blue, you don’t want an integrated battery source. So don’t buy a Mac. Fine. No one says you have to have one. Now why are you really here?? Because you have an agenda to smear Macs. Only an insecure man would be this level of defensive.
Well, we know he detests jerks like (Mac users and Porche owners)
>> Just curious. Were you working with National Instruments?
I have used a lot of NI products over the years, on multiple platforms. If you’re into that game, you might relate to my post at #308.
FRegards
I use TrueCrypt myself. Open source and runs on, Win, OSX and Linux.
That said, I'm sorry I missed this one for so long! :-)
Im a Dellturer? Forgive me Jobs for I have sinned.
Air with a Thermalright IFX-14.
Listening to Rush talk about his Macs is what caused me to check them out. I bought my first one in 2000 and have used Macs ever since. My original iMac still works just fine. I just don’t like the competitors PC’s, systems are too cluttered. I like what I like. I know very few people in my area that use Macs. You cannot buy them locally here. I guess that I “Think Different”
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