Re: PC vs Mac
On 2006-10-02 10:22:17 -0700, Phil Yff <phil.yff@xxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
That's the Apple approach. It is both a strength (as you've alluded
to) and a weakness. The more proprietary Apple approach also
discourages outside developers and makes it harder to integrate outside
offerings in a coherent and cohesive fashion. I have both a PC and a
Mac. I wish my PC was as secure and user friendly as my Mac. I wish
my Mac had the same range and depth of software as my PC. The insular
approach Apple is taking is really hurting it. It used to be that the
Apple was an order of magnitude better than the PC when it came to
desktop publishing, film editing, and other mutli-media applications.
Today, Apple is lagging behind the PC because it is unable to attract
the developers. Since you buy a computer for its software, I am afraid
that my elegant Mac is fast becoming a dinosaur.
Phil Yff
Really? I'm not trying to get a religious argument going, but Adobe's
desktop publishing stuff works very nicely on a Mac. (InDesign,
Illustrator, PhotoShop, etc.), and MOTU's Digital Performer, strictly a
Mac application, is an insanely great DAW that is being developed
faster than I can keep up with. These are applications I use on a
pretty much daily basis and my Mac doth work famously with them.
--
Always be sincere, but never be serious.
Allan Watts
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