Pogue on why is the Macintosh platform suddenly expanding? Beats the heck outta me.
One of the comments on Pogue's page:
"I think it’s about potential. People see the potential with Macs, especially when it comes to integrating the computer, software, and peripherals into your life. There are just too many third party options on a pc and it’s confusing as hell. With a Mac, people can see, simply, what they can do.
I recently showed someone the iPhoto book I bought of my honeymoon. When people saw it, they couldn’t believe I did that with my computer and had absolutely no idea how to do that on a pc. I clicked on iPhoto and showed them the book button and they exclaimed it was time to finally get a Mac."
Indeed the easy photo-book option is one of the many great things about the Mac. I tried making one last year, and it was dead simple, and the product looks so professional.
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See, I like Macs. Everything works. To develop for a Mac, and sell, you had to become an Apple Developer, and you had to meet strict interface standards. On a PC there are defined interfaces, which people interpreted loosely and deviation happened.
Any Tom, Dick and Harry develop for the PC, in the Mac world the entry price made people shy away. Those who stayed, followed the rules. It was fantastic.
Of course, the PC platform benefited from competition within solution providers, and became a cheaper platform overall, if you discount having to try three video cards before you find the one that works.
With consumer acceptance of iPods and the on-slaught of apple products awareness of the Mac has gone up. While PC's have been tackling every function under the sun, Mac's have stayed more focussed on DTP, Photo and Video. What do most consumer users want? Games, photos and video. The Mac seems like a natural...
The Mac got a new lease of life in 1997 when Apple acquired Nextstep. Apple had arrived at a dead end with the original non-multitasking MacOS and were close to buying BeOS. Steve Jobs then managed to sell Nextstep (and NeXT, Inc. + himself) to Gil Amelio.
It took a couple of years of integrating the new software and people. For example, Apple started to write all software in the language NeXT had been using, Objective-C, and adopted the NeXT's class architecture and hierarchy.
But from around 2002-2003 they started to reap the benefits of this and has been able to rapidly introduce new functionality and applications ever since.
Meanwhile, Microsoft has painted themselves in a corner with Windows. The architecture is a mess. The code base is so huge that it is impossible to maintain. Because of this, even minor changes turn into big projects for them.
With Vista the monster has become even more monstrous. They've added new bells and whistles but fixed none of its architectural flaws. Your PC will need twice as much memory and the system will crawl, but hey, you get transparent menu bars!
And Pogue wonder's why people are switching to the Mac?
Thank you very much.
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