Pointless Meandering

5th April 2008

Post reblogged from Jake Lodwick’s Blog with 87 notes

Are you a Windows user?

It seems like most Tumblr users are Mac people. But there must be some PC/Windows Tumblrs out there. If you are a Windows user, can you explain why in a reblog?

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In my case, […] I soon enjoyed being a computer user without needing to be a computer expert anymore.

Not all macs are created equal. I’m a mac-mini user, and these things have more problems than any other mac, enough to make it a wash for me. My biggest complaints about the mac are that it doesn’t have an easy open case or user serviceable components (bigger hard drive? can’t do it without voiding your warranty. install apps on drives other than the boot drive? can’t seem to do that for no verifiable reason). My complaints about OS-X are I can’t resize a window anywhere but right down there in the lower right corner, and the mac mail keyboard shortcuts are retarded. This begs the question why not use the mouse, but i’m a touch typist and mousing is always a last resort for me.

Macs still have the same sorts of problems that windows has: applications that don’t uninstall all the way, requiring the occasional reformat to clean up; applications that crash with cryptic error messages (SIGABRT! SIGSEGV! wha?); etc. I think if you only had one Windows hardware platform like mac only has one platform, that Windows would be just as stable as mac. The fact that Windows CAN run on so many different (cheaper! faster! more versatile!) platforms makes it way more useful. [disclaimer: when I say Windows, I mean XP and not Vista.]

Think about it. People only hate Windows and MSFT because they’re successful. When IBM was the king, and MSFT was the up and comer, I knew people who railed against PC-DOS, saying MS-DOS was better. It’s the American tradition to root for the underdog, and then once they’re successful stab them in the back. woo hoo.

Once Apple and mac get big enough, you’ll hate them, too, and so will the government. There’s already talk of govt legislation because of the hegemony that ipod/iTunes have on the music market, and the iPhone is close behind. Apple gets away with lots of stuff now because they were the underdog, but that’s coming to a close. And they’re going to hate that, and struggle with how to operate under consent decrees and monopoly laws. And the crowds will hate Apple, and still hate MSFT, and start rooting for some other underdog and so it goes.

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