Apple fanbois The only thing Apple did was standardise keyboard shortcuts at the system level so a keyboard shortcut was the same for all apps. MSDOS/PCDOS was all over the place. Apple Macintosh was inferior to the Amiga. (Are you keeping up with the Commodore?) It wasn't till the late 80's when desktop publishing became a thing that people embraced the GUI environment for business so they went to Macs. Atari and Amiga lost out there. Gaming wise DOS was king no one gave a toss about win3.1 or macs. MS was a software company that had to compete directly with IBM and Apple both which were also hardware companies, they had the advantage yet MS destroyed them both in the 90's thanks to Windows 95 You can bash companies going broke all you like Ian but the fact remains that MS bailed out Apple from certain doom in 1997. Fast forward today and a mac is nothing more than a fancy case re-branded PC. OSX is a fork of FreeBSD (unix) and all the hardware is PC hardware (since 2005). Even today Apple only has a 9% share market because of certain professional fields that are dominated by Macs like music and graphic design and of course ****ing hipsters. Don't be a hipster PP
You've got to admit, the glowing logo on the lid is a genius bit of design for appealing to their key markets (DJs and coffee shop wannabes mostly).
Sorry, I only played with mainframes and minis that handled more than ONE user, never touched a Commodore or any of the other stuff but I'm sure it would have been fun. I rang some of the R&D boys this arvo from the old WANG days, apparently KC is still making weird stuff and still doesn't wash
Apple was great when it was real Apple, just another sort of junk once it became a disguised windows platform... Why do we keep accepting rubbish changes to Windows eg: Word header and footer used to be able to auto insert date and file path -latest version you have to 'update field' every time you change anything; Reader files have to be closed at file level, recent files level and then deleted to clear the cache to allow removal of external drives or to access the file anywhere else on a network otherwise it will appear as 'in use' - WTF!?!?!. How is 3 steps an 'improvement' on what used to be 1 step ?
I don't know the story on a Mac, but I assume it's the same as Windows, where if the OS knows a drive is external removable storage, you don't reeeeally have to click Safely Remove, Eject or whatever from the perspective of the files on the device. There's no write caching on external devices, so the only danger is file corruption if you're actively writing to the device (e.g. halfway through copying or saving to it), and app crashes if you pull its expected storage out from underneath it. I've never seen that behaviour with Acrobat - once the file itself is closed, recent files makes no difference to anything! Nor with Word for that matter - what version is that, 2016?
that is a poorly informed opinion, but will make you popular with the peerless experts here. Macs use the same chip sets as PC's, but the operating system is quite different. Yes, it's a fork of Berkeley Unix, but that was evolved by extremely clever people and is a vastly better thing than Windows, which is a FUBAR of the DEC VMS operating system from the early 80's. Unix is the operating system which runs 98% of high security / high transaction platforms on the planet, even Microsoft's Azure datacenters now support it, because they lost the market share battle with Amazon. that is an eloquent example of why informed people avoid MS products Product Managers are required to have a roadmap of new features, it's important to (a) justify their job and (b) for the product to be seen to progress. It results in most "productivity" applications becoming bloated with unused features. From time to time, the code becomes so messed up with tacked-on bits, that it has to be rewritten from scratch - that's usually where previous functions change for no apparent reason.
Because...? ARM CPUs run 98% of the smartphones on the planet, but that's not what we were talking about either. Azure supports Linux, not BSD or Darwin or any other Unix variant, but close enough I suppose. It is interesting to note that one of the things running on Azure is Apple's consumer-facing cloud platform. That is vanishingly rare with large, publicly used codebases. I don't think it's ever happened with Office or Windows (NT-based platforms ran parallel and initially in entirely different markets to the 3.1/95/98/ME series for almost a decade before taking over). Even in the Apple world where there was quite a defined step from OS 9 to OS X, OS X wasn't rewriting OS 9 from scratch as such, it was starting with BSD and working from there.
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Ian, 99% of the technology users in the world are as 'poorly informed' as me - that's why we're pissed off with both Windows and Apple and all the so-called experts who pontificate on them. I reckon if someone like your goodself were to build and market a laptop, tablet and SMALL phone that did the stuff people actually want (no more, and no less) you'd be selling out faster than hotcakes. One of the reasons I'm stuck with MS crap is nobody STILL has managed to get Autocad running acceptably on Apple (despite all the bull**** sellers will tell you).
There are file-compatible alternatives to AutoCAD that run on Linux or OSX, e.g. nanoCAD. The problem with desktops is the tribalism between MS and Mac. The more obsessed people are, the less they actually know.
I still use a S2 This released by Samsung if of more interest to me: https://www.samsungmobilepress.com/2016/02/21/Samsung-Ushers-in-a-New-Era-of-Driving-Experience-with-Samsung-Connect-Auto
Sorry, not having a go at you, but I think you just proved my point - for a design office 'file compatible' does not equal 'works'. Ok for computer geeks, not for the poor bastards just trying to get their basic work done. The tribalism exists because there is NO alternative for the ordinary user. Apple for graphics people and geeks, MS for the east of us plebs.
Graphics yes, geeks Sorry, I've played with proper OSs most of my life, I find it amusing people arguing over Apple or Microshaft Geeks don't point and click, that's for the kids
