Apple's OSX Wins Platform of the Year at CES

O x f o r d

No Great Surprise, but InfoWorld has now named Apple's OSX the best
Platform of the year in 2008.

http://www.infoworld.com/slideshow/2...hnology-2.html

No one is unhappy with Mac OS X Version 10.4, known as Tiger. OS X is
not an application platform (I bristle at using the term "operating
system" for OS X; I explain why below) that needed repair, speeding up,
or exterior renovation. Motivations for major upgrades of competing
system software ‹ roll-ups of an unmanageable number of fixes, because
the calendar says it's time, or because users are perceived to have
version fatigue ‹ don't apply to OS X.

Apple wields no whip to force upgrades because Tiger stands no risk of
being neglected by Apple or third-party developers as long as Leopard
lives. Despite the absence of a stick that drives users into upgrades of
competing OSes, or perhaps because of it, Apple enjoys an extraordinary
rate of voluntary OS X upgrades among desktop and notebook users. Why?
People buy Macs because the platform as a whole is perfect, full stop.
Leopard is a rung above perfection. It's taken as rote that the Mac
blows away PC users' expectations. Leopard blows away Mac users'
expectations, and that's saying a great deal.

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Apple's secret, which is no secret to Mac users, is that major OS X
releases deliver tangible value far in excess of their asking price,
which in Leopard's case is $129. OS X is, first and foremost, a platform
for integrated, user-facing applications. And to a far greater extent
than previous releases, OS X Leopard itself exploits the facilities that
Apple's developers have used to create the vendor's commercial software.
Apple hasn't reserved any of the Mac platform's goodies for itself, and
users don't need to wait (or spend) for apps that expose the platform's
richness in productive ways.

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For example, Screen Sharing is now built into OS X, just open the Finder
icon for a remote server and click the Screen Sharing button to grab the
remote system's display and, optionally, its mouse and keyboard. Apple
built Screen Sharing into iChat, and Back to My Mac uses the .Mac
service and Screen Sharing to securely tunnel to files and consoles on
Macs behind firewalls. All of Leopard is like that ‹ every Leopard
feature, even those that would ordinarily be invisible to all but
developers, or reserved for the use of the vendor, is planted throughout
OS X in the places you'd put it.

Freedom in the frameworks
Looking at it from a technical perspective, Leopard's step past
perfection lies in its extensive use of the combination of the Mac
platform's intrinsic integration and Leopard's delivery of hundreds of
additions and enhancements to OS X's frameworks.

Apple supplies a consistent, familiar, and well-documented path for
developers to do any given thing. In contrast, an entire industry has
sprung up around providing developers with proprietary plugs for the
gaps that Microsoft leaves in Windows, often intentionally as an aid to
the third-party development community. The completeness of the Mac
frameworks leaves no room for a marketplace for Mac developer library
enhancements.

What's changed in Leopard is that Apple has invested enormous effort to
expose Mac framework enhancements to users through OS X's built-in
facilities and applications. Leopard's out-of-the-box experience, which
I define as the things that a user can do without spending an extra
dollar on software, eclipses Tiger's, and Tiger was no slouch in this
regard. In the past, third parties have offered freeware and shareware
facilities to extend or even replace Finder, the Mac's answer to
Windows' primitive Explorer. That died out with Tiger, and Leopard makes
such efforts entirely useless. That is not a bad thing.

Congrats to Apple for showing the world how great computing can be!

You can move up to the most Open OS available here:

http://www.apple.com/macosx/

http://www.apple.com/mac/

Wow, now Apple has over 8% of the Market, Windows has dropped below 89%
for the first time in decades... and Linux still is vying for 1%!

What a great world indeed!

You can learn more about the World's largest UNIX platform here!

http://www.apple.com/macosx/techspecs/

And the most respected, scalable, inexpensive UNIX SERVER OS here:

http://www.apple.com/server/macosx/specs.html

Around 230% less than Linux installs and over 900% less than Microsoft!

http://snipurl.com/1wtxw

Smart people only use OSX, that's for sure!

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7

Appil Corproation asstroturfer O x f o r d wrote on behalf of Appil
corporation:

> N

Linux now distributed at a rate of 1 million+ desktops per month.
Embedded Linux now selling 1 million embedded Linux products PER DAY.
Linux and open source is winning compared to over priced underperforming
second rate appil crap products and marketing.

See for yourself why Linux is superior technology
compared to appil crap.
Go to http://www.youtube.com and search for compiz and beryl

Its all free.
Time you got a decent PC and installed Linux
and enjoyed the power of Linux flowing through your computer.
For speed, performance and bang for buck there is nothing
that beats it.

http://www.livecdlist.com
http://www.distrowatch.com

Rick

On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:20:48 -0700, O x f o r d wrote:

.... nothing worth reading.


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Rick

Rick

On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:58:37 -0800, George Graves wrote:

> On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 14:55:11 -0800, Tommy Tickler wrote (in article
> <j5ygj.194124$uv7.20778@fe05.news.easynews.com>) :
>
>> O x f o r d wrote:
>>> 7 <website_has_email@www.enemygadgets.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> OSX is faster than Linux, that has been proven over and over. Linux
>>> was a flash in the pan before Linus moved to OSX in the late 00's.
>>>
>>>
>> There are also a damn side larger number of decent apps that have
>> professional polish for OS X compared to Linux. It is all well and
>> good to run an OS, but that OS also needs quality apps to run on it.
>> Linux might have a gazillion apps, but that significant majority are
>> amateur hour by comparison to the apps designed to run on OS X
>
> That's true. Funny thing though, out of the box, a Mac can run just
> about anything that Linux can run (as long as you install X11 too).

.... as long as you install X11 too is not the same as out of the box.

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Rick

O x f o r d

7 <website_has_email@www.enemygadgets.com> wrote:

> Linux now distributed at a rate of 1 million+ desktops per month.
> Embedded Linux now selling 1 million embedded Linux products PER DAY.
> Linux and open source is winning compared to over priced underperforming
> second rate appil crap products and marketing.

and 96% of them are "updates/patches" to previous distributions. Only
around 2,111 "new" installs with Linux on a day to day basis.

OSX completely dwarfs that number at 19,000 per day in purely "new"
machines being brought online, and just look, over 23,000 PER DAY in the
current 90 days alone.

Linux just can't keep pace with the more robust OSX, you and I both know
that. Linus is fine for dumb servers and terminals, don't get me wrong,
but it never will hold more than .8% of worldwide share on desktops or
laptops. That's a simple FACT.

(Apple's Laptops alone already have 22% worldwide share!, so the Linux
community really must rethink their goals)

> See for yourself why Linux is superior technology
> compared to appil crap.
> Go to http://www.youtube.com and search for compiz and beryl

didn't see anything, could you post a real example?

> Its all free.
> Time you got a decent PC and installed Linux
> and enjoyed the power of Linux flowing through your computer.
> For speed, performance and bang for buck there is nothing
> that beats it.

OSX is faster than Linux, that has been proven over and over. Linux was
a flash in the pan before Linus moved to OSX in the late 00's.

Now OSX is over 19 times the size of Linux when you look at the
"installed base", plus it has REAL profession software, not the hobby,
afterschool projects so often see when downloading Linux software.

Yes, I feel sorry for the poor regions of Europe that still hang on to
Linux even though Linus has moved to a purely Mac City. Linux is
basically dead in the big scheme of things. I'm just the messenger.

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Tommy Tickler

O x f o r d wrote:
> 7 <website_has_email@www.enemygadgets.com> wrote:
>

> OSX is faster than Linux, that has been proven over and over. Linux was
> a flash in the pan before Linus moved to OSX in the late 00's.
>

There are also a damn side larger number of decent apps that have
professional polish for OS X compared to Linux. It is all well and good
to run an OS, but that OS also needs quality apps to run on it. Linux
might have a gazillion apps, but that significant majority are amateur
hour by comparison to the apps designed to run on OS X

Christopher Hunter

Hadron wrote:

> O x f o r d <iphone@superphone.com> writes:
>
>> No Great Surprise, but InfoWorld has now named Apple's OSX the best
>> Platform of the year in 2008.
>>
>> http://www.infoworld.com/slideshow/2...hnology-2.html
>
> Huh? According to l33t MS hacker "Christopher Hunter", Apple have
> neither the talent nor the resources to challenge Linux! No wonder
> Microsoft fired him - he's clearly barking mad.

If you knew my *real* name, you'd know why and when I (of my own
volition) /left/ MS.

It was actually quite a lot of fun at the time, but the endless meaningless
meetings, the retarded corporate structure (where a man's level of
*incompetence* determines how high in the company he gets) and the poor pay
(I can get three times as much for shorter hours elsewhere) persuaded me
and many of my collegues to leave. There was a mass migration to FOSS
projects!

As to Apple - they have a fairly competent core team of around eighty
programmers. There is *no* *way* that they have the amount of /resources/
or amount of /talent/ that's available to FOSS.

It's quite funny to have a machine running Beryl next to an OSX effort.
There's no longer any comparison. The Linux box wins in /every/ way, as
long as you make sensible choices about software (and don't just
install /everything/ that's included with a distro).

C.

Peter Köhlmann

O x f o r d wrote:

< snip OxRetard garbage >

> OSX is faster than Linux, that has been proven over and over. Linux was
> a flash in the pan before Linus moved to OSX in the late 00's.
>

Only that Linus did never move to OSX

Sorry to burst your bubble, cretinous typical Mac user OxRetard, but you are
wrong as usual: He is /also/ using a Apple computer. He runs linux PPC on
it

Torvalds: OS X core a “piece of crap�
http://www.geek.com/torvalds-os-x-core-a-piece-of-crap/

Scuttlebutt: Torvalds Thinks OS X Is Crap
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/ma...9/mac_dev.html

Torvalds rubbishes core of Apple's OS X
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1...2085525,00.htm


Do you need any more links why Linus Torvalds thinks that OSX is garbage,
utter, complete filth? You can have dozens of them. All telling you what
garbage your beloved toy-OS really is

You are really a typical Mac user, OxRetard. Nothing which remotely
resembles "facts" would be found anywhere near you

< snip more typical Mac users idiocy >
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Avoid reality at all costs.

Lloyd Parsons

In article <13o5gaj23tajm15@news.supernews.com>, Rick <none@nomail.com>
wrote:

> On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:58:37 -0800, George Graves wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 14:55:11 -0800, Tommy Tickler wrote (in article
> > <j5ygj.194124$uv7.20778@fe05.news.easynews.com>) :
> >
> >> O x f o r d wrote:
> >>> 7 <website_has_email@www.enemygadgets.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> OSX is faster than Linux, that has been proven over and over. Linux
> >>> was a flash in the pan before Linus moved to OSX in the late 00's.
> >>>
> >>>
> >> There are also a damn side larger number of decent apps that have
> >> professional polish for OS X compared to Linux. It is all well and
> >> good to run an OS, but that OS also needs quality apps to run on it.
> >> Linux might have a gazillion apps, but that significant majority are
> >> amateur hour by comparison to the apps designed to run on OS X
> >
> > That's true. Funny thing though, out of the box, a Mac can run just
> > about anything that Linux can run (as long as you install X11 too).
>
> ... as long as you install X11 too is not the same as out of the box.

Uh, with Leopard, the default install is with X11...

Hadron

Christopher Hunter <chrisehunter@NOSPAMblueyonder.co.uk> writes:

> Hadron wrote:
>
>> O x f o r d <iphone@superphone.com> writes:
>>
>>> No Great Surprise, but InfoWorld has now named Apple's OSX the best
>>> Platform of the year in 2008.
>>>
>>> http://www.infoworld.com/slideshow/2...hnology-2.html
>>
>> Huh? According to l33t MS hacker "Christopher Hunter", Apple have
>> neither the talent nor the resources to challenge Linux! No wonder
>> Microsoft fired him - he's clearly barking mad.
>
> If you knew my *real* name, you'd know why and when I (of my own
> volition) /left/ MS.

I take my hat off to you for picking a nym which so clearly matches your
views.

>
> It was actually quite a lot of fun at the time, but the endless meaningless
> meetings, the retarded corporate structure (where a man's level of
> *incompetence* determines how high in the company he gets) and the
> poor pay

You're misquoting the Peter principle which states that someone is
promoted to their first level of incompetence. I think ....

> (I can get three times as much for shorter hours elsewhere) persuaded me
> and many of my collegues to leave. There was a mass migration to FOSS
> projects!

3 x as much eh? Good to see you're after the cash. Nothing wrong with
that.

>
> As to Apple - they have a fairly competent core team of around eighty
> programmers. There is *no* *way* that they have the amount of /resources/
> or amount of /talent/ that's available to FOSS.

Bullshit.

>
> It's quite funny to have a machine running Beryl next to an OSX
> effort.

if you think Beryl determines "quality" then good luck to you. Go and us
OSX or an iPhone to see how a UI should hang together.

> There's no longer any comparison. The Linux box wins in /every/ way, as
> long as you make sensible choices about software (and don't just
> install /everything/ that's included with a distro).

Linux IS great WHEN you get to know it. Unfortunately most of the OSS
GUI apps are simply atrocious.

Gimp, and now Amarok are the main exceptions IMO.