RE: www.apple.com/switch N/T
>[font size=1" color="#FF0000]LAST EDITED ON Jul-11-02
>AT 12:42 PM (GMT)
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>joke
>Even fallout is going to Mac.
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>I Think thats Bill has to
>do with the recent apple
>commercial. If apple gets better
>he has competition and therefore
>he must bring back his
>marketing strategies.
The impression I get from those new Apple commercials is, "I was too stupid to use a PC so I switched to Mac." Seriously all those people in those commercials are people I wouldn't consider "technologically smart," writers, actors, etc. The one guy there who was of any technical merit was a Windows IT person must've been an amateur because anyone who's worked with Windows networks knows that Macs are the most annoying computers to have to deal with when it comes to networks. They may have solved a lot of things with OSX, but they being Unix and Windows, well, windows, they're still not best buds.
The selection of people just reminds people of what they already know about Macs: They're for non-techical people. What those commercials don't tell people is how expensive that platform is. If you thought Microsoft was a monopoly, look at Apple, who owns platform, software, and all store chains that can sell Macs. There is zero-competition when it comes to Macs, and because of that everything is usually twice the cost of its comparable value in the PC market. For instance a crappy PCI ATI card my friend needed to get for his work Mac cost him roughly $250 when the card wasn't even worth $100. Have you looked at the price of that rack-mount server Apple is offering? That damned thing doesn't even have SCSI drives and it costs $7,800. Not only that, but it runs OSX server which has a really annoying interface for managing multiple machines.
Also, why doesn't Apple compare apples and apples instead of apples and oranges when it comes to system stability? If they want to compare their OSX to old versions of Windows, yeah, I'm sure it is more stable than, say, Windows 98 (which I didn't have problems with). Need I remind them of how unstable their previous OS, OS9 was? That damned platform didn't even have protected memory! Without protected memory, programs can write anywhere in memory they want, including over the OS, which is why Apple errors usually brought down the entire OS rather than the single app like in Windows. Instead of a BSOD, you'd see at white box of death with an error number (like -1). OS9's poor memory management would lead to TONS of crashes and freezes all the time, even from simple things like saving files.
Now Windows is incredibly stable on its Win2k core as is OSX on its BSD core. Apple actually purports protected memory as some kind of brand-spanking new feature when the 286 had support for protected memory and MSDOS had a protected memory mode.
I doubt Apple will edge out of its <5% market share, let's hope it stays that way or we'll all be paying extra for shit.
-Xotor-
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