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Originally posted by mattisdada
does anyone remember when Macs became Intel? There was 0 combatability
I do.
There was compatibility. Rosetta, a platform for converting PPC based code in to Intel based code. Sure, it was slow but most applications were compatible in one way or another.
Apple made it really easy from a developers point of view too, to target both platforms at the same time with something called a Universal Binary - an application containing both PPC and Intel compiled code so it can run on either system. For most developers, fixing compatibility for their applications meant a simple recompile in X-Code (the Apple Developer tools) with a bit of changed code.
I wouldn't use that (the PPC -> Intel switch) as an example, but more when Apple went from the Apple II to the Macintosh - that's where they screwed most people over as there _was_ no backwards compatibility - but sometimes that's just a move you have to make to push the platform forward to do new things.
Microsoft however (when you're talking about Windows 7) can't do this, obviously because of the market share they need to sustain (and would lose out on a lot of people upgrading/moving to it) so backwards compatibility is always going to be there - they can't scrap the fundamentals of how their operating system works.
Was Windows Vista a failure? No. Is Microsoft doomed? No.
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A good example is, IE, its slow, full of securety holes, takes up 20mb(hdd), slow.
Opera and FireFox on the other hand have 5mb(hdd), fast, very secure.
There's no way that Firefox is 5mb, it's also not (for the most part - Firefox 2 anyway) as fast as Internet Explorer. Why? Because portions of Internet Explorer are loaded within Windows and are used throughout the entire operating system so they're always in memory.
It's not full of security holes compared to Firefox either. If Firefox had the market share, there'd be no doubt that the number of security vulnerabilities reported in it too would be quite larger too. Actually, I'm sure one of the recent articles on the internets about this actually covers this and proves that Firefox is also quite vulnerable.
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Oh, and iPod and iTunes isnt so seamless as you try and make it......
I dont know anyone personally (Not counting people on forums) that havent had to call up Apple tech support because something went wrong with there iPod.... a friend lost there firmware.... another friends battery stopped working, anothers click wheel broke.....
Compared to the very small amount of people that you know with an iPod to the entire user base, most people have no problem with the iPod. Why? Because it makes having an MP3 player look like it's ridiculously easy and every one can do it.
Random comment: Office 07 is awesome, I agree. Same applies for Office for Mac 2008 - it's equally awesome.
Disclaimer: These days I use a Mac 90% of the time I'm in front of a computer, I use Windows when testing a lot of my work, most PCs at home are Windows based, I do not think Microsoft is evil, I think Apple is awesome, I have several iPods and I use Firefox/Safari.
