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Skriven 2008-07-22 22:30:00 av JAY EMRIE (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av ALAN ZISMAN
Ärende: Mac revisited.
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AZ> JE> I look at it this way: Reminds me of a mule my Granddad had. The
AZ> JE> stubborn mule was used to going out of the barn (pulling the wagon)
AZ> JE> through the door on the right. When that door was closed and the door
on
AZ> JE> the left was opened the mule stubbornly refused to go out that door and
AZ> JE> stood waiting at the door on the right to open. After fighting that for
AZ> JE> a long time Granddad finally gave up and opened the door on the right.
AZ> JE> The computer world isn't going to do likewise.

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

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

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

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

The demise of the Floppy drive is/was actually caused by its lack of
data capacity. USB thumb drives sealed the floppy drives fate. I have
one in my current desktop and rarely have ever used in for a quite a few
years. My IBM laptop doesn't even have a floppy.

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

Praise be APPLE!

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

I do not miss them either, like you I have a few. I did use them
as I do thumb drives which obsoleted the small CDs. My photo printer, my
laser printer, my KB, Mouse, external HDs are all USB. I can not fathom
what I would do without USB. Even my KVM switch (which I am dubious of
right now) is USB. I purposely searched for on that was USB rather than
PS/2.

Apple/MAC have forced a lot of improvements on the computer industry.
THANKFULLY

Jay

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