Microsoft vs. Mac vs. Linux
Well I must make a post about this. I am so sick of hearing how horrible Microsoft is for copying Mac and all this crap that surrounds this topic. We are computer consumers this day in age. Both MS and Mac treat us as though we are ignorant. I see Mac knock MS in their I am PC I am Mac commercials. I am Mac I am so great cause I can do this, this and this. Yea OMG unbelievable a Mac can do the same thing as a pc. Well I hope the fuck so it is a computer still right? Yea thought so. It takes what a CPU, MB, HD and memory huh sounds like a fucking PC to me so what gives. Ok so they say that PC freezes all the time. OK sure if you are an illiterate user but guess what. I froze a Mac (Intentionally) to prove a point.
Mac says they are not vulnerable to all the viruses and such. Well ok for a moment in time. So was PC until it became mainstream. Now that Mac is going mainstream is it not logical to think that the writers of viruses won’t be now attacking Mac systems? I am sure that will be next on the plate. Mac is begging to be crippled by viruses. Mark my words they will be just as vulnerable if they are not already which I doubt they are immune to anything. Ok so now for a bit of marketing 101. Does Mac seriously think that by knocking a competitor that they will generate business for themselves? Well not if the consumer is smart enough it wont. It is more likely to make a buyer leery of paying an extra 2000 bucks for a machine that the company who manufactures is so insecure about that they have to run down the competition.
I have been in the entertainment business for 14 years now and I can say I am not where I am now from running my competition into the ground. Talk yourself up all you want but never and I mean never talk a competitor down. This shows insecurity and shows that you are willing to stoop to any level to make a sale. Ok one more thing. Mac now uses Intel parts. Uhm Ok so now you mean to say that I can use PC parts in a Mac. Well shit doesn’t that defeat any idea that said Mac was better than PC. I mean come on you are so good that you must use PC parts. I think not. I get such a kick out of all of these. I have run Windows XP Pro as a server exposed fully to the net for 2 years. To date virus, spy ware and so on is at a max count of 0, zilch, nadda. Freezes. Never. SO what gives? Why is it that I have such great luck and no one else does.
It is all lies. A computer is a piece of hardware that is only as good as it’s user. So now the latest I just saw a video on a blog for the Zune vs. IPod Well here we go again, shoe is on the other foot though. MS brought this about as a parody to the Mac vs. PC videos. Still I have no respect for a company dissing another to gain a sale but well they didn’t do that in this video at least not close to what Mac has said about PC. MS only makes it known that by using an IPod you have many limits and the main one is functionality and ease of use. I have used many mp3 players. IPod, being one of them. I am a professional entertainer in the music industry and I settle for only the best. Tried IPod. Would I buy one? Is there ice cream in hell? The IPod sux horribly. Starting with its faceplate navigation that just does whatever the fuck it wants to do.
The Zune, well I am sure it is pretty much the same as any other but ease of use well it seems they have that covered so until I try one myself I wont say run out and buy one but I will give you this one warning. Buy what you are comfortable with. If it works for you, great. While you are in the store ask to have a demonstration of every product you are looking into. I mean listen to it, touch it, play with it and make sure it is right for you. If the store/salesmen won’t let you kindly tell them thank you anyway but I think I will just go across the street and leave. This is your hard earned money you will spend, don’t you have the right to look into what you buy before you are stuck with it. Also remember the return policy and hold the company to it. If you try it for a few days and you decide it sux go back and get your refund. So good luck to you all and heed my warnings.
December 27th, 2006 at 11:20 am
Man this is just too funny ;D
i am anti Windows now as you know, and there are a few things i need to correct. Above you said that Mac has to use PC parts now. I believe the hardware for the Mac will not run in a PC it just uses the same company for the core processors. As for PC hardware, i have not been trashing that, i would love it if OS X would run natively on the PC hardware. However i fucking hate windows
I will never go back to it after running OS X.
How was Mac before OS X? I havent the slightest idea, probably sucked. OS X is based on Darwin which is unix. Gotta love the stability of unix. The only “real” difference between OS X and linux is that OS X has the pretty cushy UI wich is sexy.
As for who is copying who? Mac has the right to disrespect PC afterall PC is the one who started all of this trash. They copies several core features from OS X and plopped them into VIsta. Not only that, read this post http://www.tuaw.com/2006/12/11/microsoft-rips-off-apples-icons-too/
As for tyhe Zune vs IPod? Well I have to stick by the iPod after using both. The Zune has a nice navigation menu but it’s not as easy to navigate compared to the iPod. I am not sure what you mean by the iPod menu does whatever it wants, maybe it was defective. I know ours works perfectly fine.
The Zune does have good quality audio pumping out of it but rumor has it that Apple already has the next product on the way to be announced which very well could replace the iPod. THink about an iPod / Cell phone combined unit much like the Treo 650 with Much better audio capability.
now in the title you call it ms vs mac vs linux but i dont see where you ever touch on linux
People also make fun of the mac comercials, just look here http://www.josephcrawford.com/?s=spoof
December 27th, 2006 at 3:03 pm
That is good stuff Joe,
I was wondering how long it would take for someone to comment on this. The posts I make are to stir up the pot a bit. Alot of them have less than accurate information. You are encouraged to look things up yourself. Our purpose is to spawn a more aware buyer by giving them a different view. Mac, before OS X was horible. I used it up till version 7.5 and that was enough for me to switch to a windows machine.
You know I did not ever mention linux but I was supposed to. Linux is the best os there is, OS X is like linux with eye candy but you will even notice that there are many distro’s of linux that have had many of the same features that OS X has.
A music player that is a phone. Man that is just to much. When I buy a phone I expect very few things. I might add I get very few of these. I expect that when I dial someone I will get them as apposed to Message RA-4 blah blah. I expect to be talking to them until the call is ended. I expect to be able to get accurate details from the provider such as what the number of every incoming call was. I do not much care if I can listen to beethoven’s 9th or browse the web at slow speeds with a 2 – 3 inch screen. My eyes have a hard enough time seing a 17 inch screen and what is on it.
Just the same, great comment Joe.