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?
October 19th, 2006 at 6:11 pm. Permalink.
[...] Will makes a good point. [...]
October 19th, 2006 at 6:45 pm. Permalink.
[...] Posted in On the Intertron, IT by will on October 20, 2006. Robert Scoble posted an article today about a company called Soasta that is doing Web development (in the .NET Environment, no less) on Macs. It’s a sort-of* reposte to the article I linked to yesterday, about someone switching back from OS X. …by using a Mac for development systems they can run Linux, Windows, and OSX on a single box. […] [...]
October 20th, 2006 at 1:40 pm. Permalink.