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Mac vs. Windows: Who Cares? | |
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| Time: 07:41 EST/12:41 GMT | News Source: Wired | Posted By: Bill Roach | ||
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In 1998, Apple ran a television commercial aimed squarely at its competitors. The "Toasted Bunny" ad, as it came to be known, portrayed one of Intel's Bunny-suited workers being hosed down by a firefighter. "Apple Computer would like to apologize for toasting the Pentium II processor in public," the voiceover intoned. "But the fact remains, the chip inside every new Macintosh G3 is up to twice as fast." The advertisement so enraged Todd Arneson, at the time a 13-year-old fan of Windows PCs, that he launched Ihateapple.com, a website devoted to countering what he called Apple's "propaganda." | ||
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| #1 By 135 (208.50.206.187) at 1/29/2003 9:43:09 AM |
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"Windows users apparently could care less what computers other people use. "
Yup. |
| #2 By 135 (208.50.206.187) at 1/29/2003 10:16:38 AM |
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While reading the ihateapple.com site, came across this little jem:
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-982314.html Apparently many third party software companies are abandoning the Macintosh. The main reason... Apple is pushing them out of the market. |
| #3 By 2459 (24.170.151.14) at 1/29/2003 10:35:46 AM |
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I saw the CNET version of that, blue.
One of my favorite quotes: "And competition from a free Apple product is the kiss of death--perhaps even worse than competing with a free Microsoft product." |
| #4 By 7754 (216.160.8.41) at 1/29/2003 11:11:06 AM |
| Interesting link, Sodablue. I can see how this is particularly tough for Mac 3rd-party developers, since they're competing for an already small share of the market. Perhaps Jobs should have said (as he did with CRT monitors), "This is the official death of browser choices on the Mac, today." |
| #5 By 135 (208.50.206.187) at 1/29/2003 12:57:24 PM |
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baarod - Interesting. Never heard of them, which is strange because you'd think if they were looking for talented people they would have been recruiting at Iowa State, if they were in Des Moines. Microware used to show up on campus all the time.
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| #6 By 2960 (156.80.64.132) at 1/29/2003 1:56:19 PM |
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#3,
Man, talk about an issue you don't understand. First, Opera has NEVER been a hit on the Mac. The ports have only been so-so (unlike the Win versions which are actually pretty good). It has never caught on, and has nearly zero user base on the Mac. I do not know a single Mac user that uses Opera on the Mac. Opera's fight isn't with Safari, it's with Mozilla. Mozilla obliterated ANY chance Opera had on the Mac a long time ago. Safari is BARELY beta quality right now. It has the feature set of a Toaster. It is no threat to anyone, and since it is a completely optional, removeable (drag it to the trash) standard program on the Mac, it will never have the 'control' over users like MSIE does under Windows given the way IE is embedded and un-removeable from Windows. The Opera thing is NO big deal. It's a non-story. Hell, it's a non-product. Don't make a big deal out of something that means absolutely squat. TL |
| #7 By 116 (66.69.198.173) at 1/29/2003 1:56:34 PM |
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NO no Soda. Everyone looks for talented people at the University of Texas...
I don't know about Iowa State... |
| #8 By 2960 (156.80.64.132) at 1/29/2003 1:59:34 PM |
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This whole Mac vs. Windows thing is a waste of everyone's time.
Both platforms have advantages over the other. Both platforms have their weaknesses. Both platforms have their strenghts. Both platforms are quite useable. I do what I consider the sane thing. I own both. I use each according to it's merits. I don't care for either company or how either treats their customers sometimes (gee, you'd have never thought that LOL!) but I don't let that interfere with how I use either platform. It's a totally different subject to be dealt with separately. There are Platform Priests on both sides. Just like there are Penguin-Thumpers. All of these people make life miserable for the rest of us. TL |
| #9 By 135 (208.50.206.187) at 1/29/2003 2:44:55 PM |
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TechLarry - "Man, talk about an issue you don't understand. "
LOL! Talk about not understanding... "Opera's fight isn't with Safari, it's with Mozilla. Mozilla obliterated ANY chance Opera had on the Mac a long time ago. " No no... it's the big evil corporation! "The Opera thing is NO big deal. It's a non-story. Hell, it's a non-product. Don't make a big deal out of something that means absolutely squat. " The same was true of Netscape. |
| #10 By 2 (24.54.154.183) at 1/29/2003 6:34:35 PM |
| Please #1, e-mail away! :) |
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