Here we go again…

17. October 2008 by Terry.

I just got finished watching an OLD documentary on the science channel about how Microsoft sat there and ripped off Apple around the first days of Mac.   Had all sorts of interviews and everything like that from different people including Gates and Jobs.   It was pretty good watch for an ubernerd like myself, but there was one thing that I personally took a disagreement with.   Jobs at the end of the movie (being the smug asshole that he is) said that he has no problem with Microsoft’s success, that his problem is that Microsoft puts out nothing but 3rd rate software.   Allow me in all my nerdy glory to demonstrate why he is wrong…and please keep in mind that I OWN both a mac and pc…..

Steve Jobs is a bitter visionary who in his own mind is god.   Thats why mac’s are still the niche, because other than visual editing and creative purposes, it’s very hard for someone to use a Mac for everything.   Step in a windows machine.   Is Windows clunky? Yes.    Is it a security problem? Yes.    Is it the STANDARD? YES.   The reason many people have a problem with transferring their lives to a mac is the fact that its not the standard.   Doing so leaves many people (such as myself) longing for programs that just plainly aren’t availalble on Mac.   So in retrospect, is he bitter because Microsoft put such universally used software out that it became the standard? or is he just bitter because he didn’t think of it first?

Microsoft had the better strategy.   They didn’t try to redesign the wheel.   They took the innovations of the era, and made them better, thats simply what they do.   You’ll never see a version of Windows built from the ground up, because it goes against everything Microsoft has stood for.   Mac on the other hand had had an OS for the last 5 years that if an untrained eye has seen it, hasn’t changed at all.   Now don’t get me wrong, thats not a knock against Apple at all, the OSX 10 series is great software, but its still in its niche market.   The only reason half of the people who use a mac ever started USING a mac was because of something called the IPOD that came out something like 8 or 9 years ago.   And anyone who wants to flame me on that one can kiss my ass because you all know its true…

Apple creates good software.    Microsoft takes standard software and makes it better.    End of that discussion.

Personally, I’m really waiting for everyone to realize that the OS they should be paying attention too is Linux.   Anything windows or mac can do…..Ubuntu can do better.

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