Interesting post: HCI User Advocate: Switchback: Horrors of a Windows Power-user Trying to Switch to Apple OS X
Apple does do many things extremely well, but they communicate that pretty clearly. My aim here is to point out that Apple life isn’t all roses. Technology remains hard and that there is almost always a set of trade-offs associated with the choice of any platform.
I’ve had a half-completed post sitting in my queue for months now about why I’ve got no intention of switching to Apple.
The article points out a lot of the issues I had with using OS X at Ian’s place – though it was on a smaller screen (14″ Powerbook G4, iirc) – I still had a few of the same issues.
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I’m surprised there isn’t a torrent of ‘you just don’t know how to use OSX you bloody windows n00b’, or that he hasn’t been threatened by Apple on the matter.
OSX isn’t perfect, infact, its far from. But the users of it are fanatical about it, they just ‘put up’ with the problems and gloss over them.
If you tell them that every alternative OS functions correctly except OSX on something, they’ll point out all the things that OSX does well, instead of admitting defeat.
There is a current thread on whirlpool where mac users are laughing at a Vista presentation because they are ‘anti-mac’.
Need we remind them of the ‘anti-vista’ propaganda Apple themselves had publically displayed?