Linked by Jean-Baptiste Quéru on Tue 29th Jun 2004 17:40 UTC
Let me make it clear. I'm not a fan of Apple. I think that their products are overhyped, overpriced and underperforming. If you're looking for a fair unbiased opinion, you're looking in the wrong place. You've been warned. So, I was at Steve Jobs' 2004 WWDC keynote yesterday, attempting to take pictures for OSNews (an amazingly hard task, by the way, which really explained why people pay big bucks for big lenses equipped with image stabilizers). UPDATE: Stop reading right there, I have rewritten & updated the article here.
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Yes I love my two macs. OSX 10.3 is the best thing I've used out of XP, Win2000, IRIX, Solaris, Linux. I get to use photoshop and my unix apps. FInk rocks. But damned if I want to learn all these non-portable APIs. Some days you just need to open a serial port and a firewire camera and get work done. I still haven't figured out how to deal with some of this stuff. I'm not a big fan of obj-c. And I tried to use MathML the other day in Safari... whoops.
Articles like this are great in that it give clear feedback to Apple and Adobe. I hate mac apples that drop crap all over my drive that I may not find for a year or two. The installer situation is HORRIBLE. Apps that I just drop in the /Applications folder are fine. When I can't drag my apps folder to a firewire drive, wipe and reinstall a messed up system, I get very unhappy. With fink, I can rm -rf /sw and in an hour or two be back to where I was. That should be the goal for macs in general!