Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 11th Oct 2001 17:24 UTC
Mac OS X I went on and wrote a review about MacOSX 10.0.4 a month ago, but it was never finished as I had to fly to France for my own wedding. I came back and MacOSX 10.1 had been released. I scrapped completely the old text, as 10.1 brings some more speed and new features to the system, and restarted writting the review from scratch.
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Package is a package
by David on Thu 11th Oct 2001 19:42 UTC

"I can do that with BeOS, exactly the same way." Cool. You and the 3 other people who have BeOS. I think your comments were respectable, but ultimately impractical. Thank goodness 1) apple has the loyal fans they do 2) apple caters to this fan base on the principle that Macs are the "computer for the rest of us" and 3) apple has found a new OS that can attracter developers (if only the developers learn how to produce good products!). Be OS is gone. Linux was an "almost but not quite". All the rest are for hardcore users who have time to learn CLI. That leaves Windows and Mac for the rest of us. Is Mac OSX perfect? No. But can you honestly say that Windows would survive without the exclusive contracts and monopolistic behavior of it's parent company? Can you practically state it has ever been a "friendly" OS? A reviewer has an obligation to her audience, which must include the practical reality of the market. BeOS is tied to Palm, which is going bankrupt. Mac OSX does some amazing things, and puts them into the hands of everyday people like you and me. Windows simply forces us to conform to, and put up with, Redmond dystopias.