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Stock Madness 2005: Apple vs. Microsoft | |
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| Time: 00:01 EST/05:01 GMT | News Source: E-Mail | Posted By: Chris Hedlund | ||
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The selection committee, it is apparent, has a flair for the dramatic. They knew that an Apple versus Microsoft tilt would be great television. Heck, if I weren't part of it, I'd tune in. Let's dispense with the elephant in the room: If we are at Round 3 in the Apple/Microsoft tilt, you would have to be hopelessly partisan not to recognize that Microsoft absolutely slaughtered Apple in the first, with Apple making excellent tactical maneuvers in the second so that the biggest question is no longer whether Microsoft will destroy it. The difference between the second round and the first was that Apple chose to quit punching itself. Apple is the prospector, the trailblazer, and yes, perhaps even a Rule Breaker. Microsoft is the Borg. Apple's technology tends to work extremely well and is intuitive. Microsoft's works with everything, eventually. Microsoft will never, ever, ever come up with a piece of functional engineering as breathtakingly beautiful as the iMac. Still, Apple lost the operating system war. So it went elsewhere. | ||
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| #1 By 8556 (12.217.161.186) at 3/18/2005 11:22:17 AM |
| The article compares apples and oranges in that Microsoft does not design computers while Apple does. The hardware comments are therefore moot. For $500 you can build your own ShuttleX PC from the many barebones models available that may be deeper than the mini Mac but will outperform it running either Linux or Windows XP. Try building your own Mac. |
| #2 By 9156 (192.55.140.2) at 3/18/2005 1:04:03 PM |
| Microsoft isn’t really known for its computer hardware designs, it allows the industry to do the majority of that so it isn’t an apples to apples comparison. (no pun intended) If you want to compare some of the same things both companies do, look at keyboards, computer mice, and software. What’s the most run software on a Mac? Microsoft Office. And isn’t the most popular mouse an Intilli-mouse on the Mac too? If you think of Apple as a hardware company...well yes they are Pioneers in the industry, if you think of them as a software company and are the type of person that views giving users more options and making it simple as a feature, Microsoft wins. The facts is you could take 3 separate users, all with the same low level of knowledge about computers, set them down in front of a Mac, Windows XP and Linux system and give them a simple task like convert an Audio CD to MP3 files, and put the files on a disk, the user of the XP system would complete the task first I imagine. To me, that is functional engineering. |
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