Seems like there used to be a lot of discussion on this list about Linux
distros. Are the Linux users quiet because they aren't having problems?
Gerry
On 9/2/2014 11:29 PM, Hendrik and Fay via Mercedes wrote:
Well yeah, you may be right, style without substance only gets you so
far.
It seems that there are people trying to make viruses for macs
http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/computers/apple-drops-claim-that-macs-dont-get-viruses-20120703-21ei4.html
The hack a celeb nude from the cloud thingy won't help.
One of the key selling points used to be that a mac is easier and
safer to use than windows, it perhaps may be still easier than windows
(I haven't kept up with windows much but son has winders on his school
lapdog and seems to get along alright with it) but I do know we had a
major crash on our mac book pro, which needed the whole operating
system to be reinstalled, this brought back memories of using windows
and how every know and then it spat the dummy and needed a clean install.
Plus they wanted to charge us to get iphoto back on the mac, which I
managed to get off our original installation CD but the issue still
remains that apple was being greedy there and before you say "ooh but
you should not expect to get a program for free" well we paid for it
when we bought the mac originally and had we not chosen the pro with a
CD drive, we may well have been at the mercy of apple and the AU$19
charge for iphoto
https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/iphoto/id408981381?mt=12 not too
mention how the heck I would have recovered the OS without a CD. I
tried all the inbuilt recovery things but only a clean install got it
to work again.
It just seems that without Jobs being the figurehead, apple is
starting to be exposed to be just like windows, only more expensive,
which will drive a lot of folk to android.
That image of being hip because you got a mac has pretty much gone.
Daimler found that out too, relying on past glories does not guarantee
future success and maybe it's apples turn to go through a bit of a
slump, again but the question is do they have the visionaries to pull
them out of the slump?
Slashing the prices of their products is not the answer I think, as it
will expose them for the overcharging they have been doing for years.
Hendrik
who is sending this via an old penguin powered desktop machine
On 02/09/14 10:41, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote:
Apple is in trouble. They've basically given the professional world
the finger with the new MacPro, their phones are twice the money for
no added features and their last tablet release sucked, it had less
resolution than a Kindle for 50% more money. The world is starting to
wake up. They've got to actually do something if they want to stay on
top, image only lasts for awhile, look at Blackberry.
-Curt
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