Text 47405, 47 rader
Skriven 2008-07-22 20:35:01 av Alan Zisman (1:123/789.0)
  Kommentar till text 47392 av JAY EMRIE (1:123/140)
Ärende: Mac revisited.
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JAY EMRIE -> JEAN PARROT wrote:


 JE> I look at it this way: Reminds me of a mule my Granddad had. The
 JE> stubborn mule was used to going out of the barn (pulling the wagon)
 JE> through the door on the right. When that door was closed and the door on
 JE> the left was opened the mule stubbornly refused to go out that door and
 JE> stood waiting at the door on the right to open. After fighting that for
 JE> a long time Granddad finally gave up and opened the door on the right.
 JE> The computer world isn't going to do likewise.

 JE> Since virtually all of the computer world uses CD drives with a tray
 JE> why should Mac e a stubborn old mule and insist on the slot kind?

Remember the 10-year ago Apple advertising focused on the slogan "Think
Different'?

For both better and worse, Apple products reflect Steve Jobs' strong design
sense-- throughout his career, he has released a series of products that looked
better than competition- though looks have sometimes trumped functionality. At
the same time, his products have often pushed the technology envelope, by
ignoring the accepted wisdom of the time.

For instance: the 1998 iMac release, which had no floppy disk drive, and
dropped legacy serial, parallel, SCSI, and keyboard ports-- both Mac and PC
standards, in favour of USB. Apple didn't invent USB-- Intel did, but until the
iMac forced it upon users, it was pretty much ignored by manufacturers. When
the iMac was first released, reviewers and PC OEMs were boggled- would
consumers go for a computer lacking a floppy drive?

Now, while many PCs still include floppy disk drives, PS/2 ports, etc-- many
others, particularly laptops, (but I've also seen Dell and other PC desktops
like that) have dropped these 'legacy devices'. Microsoft started trying
pushing PC manufacturers to drop 'legacy device support' around 1997 or so back
lacked the power to achieve this. Ironically, Apple was more successful in
getting USB to be widely adopted by PC manufacturers than Microsoft was (though
Microsoft adding better USB support in Win98 certainly helped!)

I certainly don't miss the ability to read tiny CD discs when I'm using a Mac.
While I have a couple of them, they're mostly advertising crapware.
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