At 11:08 AM -0500 10/28/10, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
On Thu, October 28, 2010 10:20, Emily L. Ferguson wrote:
At 5:53 PM +0300 10/28/10, Trevor Cunningham wrote:
I've always thought that the only reason someone would choose to
endure a Mac OS would be the benefits of its hardware, most notably
the graphic display.
Hmm. What might it be that you thing about the Mac OS that is so
unpleasant as to characterize with the word "endure".
Well, nearly everything; but most specially, having to go all the way to
the top of the screen to find the menu for the current window
?
Keyboard commands
Also, they've put their users through amazing amounts of hell; 68k to
power-pc to Intel just on the hardware side,
?
What's your definition of hell? In 16 years they've changed
processor twice. At only one point was it necessary to actually
upgrade key software to run on the new processor - the 3rd time.
and several flag-day changes
on the software side as well. I wouldn't sign up for any company that
behaved that way.
I wouldn't buy any product from a company that, in order to have the
product work reliably, I had be on daily watch for invasions and
theft of data through the very product I'm depending on.
And, after more than 20 years, the company still won't and,
apparently, can't fix its core problems - security and reliability.
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