Haji memashte yurishko. Mac scarteta des.
July 05, 2006
So, I finally got around to viewing those new Apple ads on youtube today. I have to say, wtf Apple? When attacking the competition, be certain that you cannot be attacked on the same fronts.
Networking and OSX. You see, OSX doesn't really speak the networking languages very well. While it may be able to converse with the polite little iCamera-chan from Japan that's been manufactured by Apple - it really can't converse with the dirty American Windows as well as it did in the video. See, domains and Macs don't work so well. No offense to OSX, because Linux doesn't play well with domains either - and Microsoft purposefully makes it difficult. Don't get me started on having to reboot the whole fricking OS after changing /etc/hosts.
I'm better at life stuff. Oooh, sonanda. "Music, pictures, movies... stuff like that... by 'better' I mean 'easier'.". It's interesting, because I've never heard the term "better" so simply defined as "easier". Surely, the "easier" solution to photo publishing is to not do it at all. I'm also confused, because iTunes is a pain in the ass.
The hiccuping PC joke is old, really. The latest releases of XP itself are rather stable. I can't even recall the last time that I had an entire crash of the OS as depicted in Apple's ad. I'm also a bit confused, because apps are roughly equivelantly stable in OSX and XP. I can get my OSX apps to crash just as much as my XP apps (which nowadays is rather rare). Sure, XP has that huge timeout bug with SMB... but OSX apps go ape-shit if SMB disappears.
So Apple, why don't you play up the fact that you've got a great Operating System? Point out your simplicity and good design. Give us screenshots and goodies, show us spotlight and the wonders of your search-directory things. Don't give us some kid making fun of PCs. It makes OSX zealots giggle, but the rest of us just aren't interested in seeing a company like yours behave that way.
( I apologize for the crappy Japanese spelling. I don't know the Englishized spellings. )
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