On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 6:15 PM, Ramnarayan.K <ramnaraya...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 11:45 PM, Ashutosh Rishi Ranjan > <ashutoshrish...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Macintosh is really good. Open source is amazing. But amazing is not >> in the comparative degree. Apple has one of the most closed systems. >> But their system is amazing. It is managed will amazing efficiency. > > One reason why macs are so efficient is because they have complete > control over hardware and software and they have no need to make the > Mac OS work with anything that is not from their stable. >
Also, Don't ever forget that Mac OS is based on rock solid BSD's, being a major factor > That way even Wincedows is a bit better , atleast they are not > restricting anyone in choice of hardware, the fact that most hardware > would be Wincedows compatible is another matter. > > Imagine if Opensource folks had control over the device and the > software - it would be wow. And i thing in the phone segment that is > what is happening > > openmoko is an example, as there are others. (off topic) I dint like the example, the reason being, I had owned Openmoko, Operating system (2009 feb version I had used, I guess) not even usable, most important features like wifi, GPS dont work most of the times. OS Suspends and never resume. In around 2 months of esteemed ownership, atleast 60 times I have reinstalled OS. lol What value does it add by have total control over hardware? > > @ all > One reason for the mail was to provoke debate ;-) > > i would like to repeat i really like Ubuntu and what they have done > to Linux, basically make it accessible. And in a way life is easier > because i know how it works. > > ram > > -- > ubuntu-in mailing list > ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in > -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
