"As World+Dog gets its head around Windows Vista, lets look back at an operating system that might have been a contender, very nearly becoming Apple's next-generation OS and, but for Linux, almost certainly the key alternative to Windows on x86. Ladies and gentlemen, who remembers BeOS?"
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Member since:2007-01-22
I'm not so sure about that because there are a lot more C++ developers in the world than objective c. I don't argue that Steve is better than Be for Apple but it's his sense of style...let's put if this way. If Be made BeOS look like nextstep and Steve made nextstep look like BeOS, MacOS X would *probably* be based on BeOS.
Apple is now primarily about imac and mac mini. Computers for people who basically want to surf the web and check their email and that's it.
No 3rd party apps for iphone? who cares? It's cool. See what I'm getting at? There's something really missing from Apple and it bothers me. It used to be more about doing more with your computer instead of treating it like a toy.
Member since:2006-09-22
No 3rd party apps for iphone? who cares? It's cool. See what I'm getting at? There's something really missing from Apple and it bothers me. It used to be more about doing more with your computer instead of treating it like a toy.
First of all, the iPhone isn't a computer. Second, maybe it's not about doing more with the computer but doing the stuff you need to do in a simple way. Many Mac users like Macs mostly because it doesn't ask much from the user, it just works and lets them get their work done. Granted, this won't fit every user out there but nothing really does. And I had the opportunity to lay my hands in a Mac Mini and, IMHO, it can do way more than surfing the web.
OT: Remember when phones were used to talk to other people?
Member since:2006-10-08
"Apple is now primarily about imac and mac mini. Computers for people who basically want to surf the web and check their email and that's it."
No, I rather think people who surf the web and check their email usually buy a new PC with "Windows" preinstalled (or let someone install a pirated copy for them), because nothing else exists. :-)
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2005-12-13
I said that, and I quote:
'otherwise we'd still run Mac OS 9.6 featuring cooperative multitasking and no memory protection on our state of the art Macs...'
...thus by 'we' I mean 'Mac users', because face it: No Mac OS X (or BeOS for that matter) there'd be no Intel switch happening the past year...
Everything'd probably be the same old same old for Apple and Mac OS 9 would probably still be around in some updated version...