[DUG] iPhone

[Robert martin]

Hi

I think apple makes very nice products with what seems like a nice 
interface.  However part of the ability to make things nice is that they 
also restrict what you can do (sometimes). 

I share a broadband connection with my Apple owning neighbour.  He 
bought his iBook (or whatever) over to diagnose a reception issue we 
were having.  In windows (XP) I could hover over the network connection 
(on the desktop) and see signal strength and speed (actual value).  In 
OSX we could see signal strength bars but it took about 15 minutes just 
to find what the actual connection speed was.  Also the Apple also 
automatically detected a stronger connection and defaulted to that ! 

I think apple (still) lives in the proprietary world that a number of 
80s computer companies also died in (Amiga, Atari, CPC etc).  The reason 
MS has been successful is its openness.  In the 80s they were a weak OS 
on avg / low performance hardware, Amiga and Atair had better CPUs and 
GUI interfaces.  The Amiga even had multitasking! 

Being open makes things more complex and introduces instability but in 
the end the openness is a plus.  Apple is having a resurgence with some 
nice hardware and a borrowed OS (the old OS was retarded in comparison 
to Windows - Virtual memory / multitasking etc).  It remains to be seen 
whether this will continue in the long term.

Rob



Richard Vowles wrote:
> Being the owner of a MacBook, and mostly running on OS X (and using 
> VMWare for Windows when I need it and finding that it runs nice and 
> quickly), I would say that the difference between Apple and Microsoft 
> is attention to detail. Apple is all about detail and style - and OS X 
> is just simply nicer to use than Windows (Vista included). *Really* 
> nice ot use.
>
> Richard
>
> 2008/8/29 Robert martin <rob at chreos.co.nz <mailto:rob at chreos.co.nz>>
>
>     Agreed.  Apple is actually worse than MS.  Apple gets praise for doing
>     things that MS would get anti trusts for.  Its a matter of size and
>     marketing.
>
>     I personally think Apples current strength is marketing not Software /
>     hardware.
>
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