Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 11:45:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Bzdik BSD <bzdik@yahoo.com> To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Crap OS X Message-ID: <20010513184504.61587.qmail@web13607.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <p05100306b72437286bdc@[194.78.241.123]>
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--- Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> wrote: > they screw up MacOS X, they're toast. I've got tens of thousands of > dollars of hardware and software invested in MacOS, but I've been > frustrated enough with them for enough years that I think I'll pretty > > much toss it all away if Apple doesn't get this right. My situation as well. OTOH it payed off thousand times for me. In over decade with Macs I never read a manual. It *was* totally different cultural environment. I had this FileMaker Pro that was a cutie to deal with. Even creating rules and formulae was so intuitive that it was a joy to work with it. Geeks are not needed there! Liberation was close ;) Then the Cupertiono HQ killed cloners, soon application developers began leaving one by one. I had fewer choices of accounting software and uncertainty of business continuity started to be so certain. There used to be good times when AOL was just a friendly and mostly Mac board where a non-geek could get familiar with new and cool slang words like "ftp", "gopher", "veronica, baby" and Web was some novel curiosity. They are gone. We just had this generational flash-back that manifested itself in the market place rather nicely. Besides market crash, there was a short living surge in VolksWagen Beetle(slightly different) sales, Macs(slightly different), Carlo Sanatana (slightly older), Unix (slightly Linuxed),etc. In light of this, writing for Salon.com was a big mistake. Are they still in business? It should have been Playboy. This could give any Unix for any platform very sexy image. Like "Yeah..Right..." The flashback has passed, and the market remains to be the ultimate judge working in a continuous fashion. Apple is not even a leader in dying business: box making. the thing that is very suspect is that VAX people did not crawl out... Servers are nice, but the usability by end-user is what I need. Perl strings calculating some astro phases can be called fully fledged ports and we could claim we have over 7000 of them, but small stuff like The Bat!, Eudora, YA NewsWatcher, MT NewsWatcher win the end-user. And not all of them are commercial either. Certainly, some people have bigger requirements and use pine or even Emacs OS. And an elitist will have a fancy glass of armagnac while making sunset calculations for a given coordinate at a given date sitting in front of his computer by a fireplace. Just threading without infringing yet enjoying. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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