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Plaupius on 04 August 2008
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dib8rman said:
rocketpig said:
dib8rman said:

Sure I love eating sushi and your right I'd have to be bat-shit crazy to be munching on bowling balls.

Who said we were talking about eating? Maybe I wanted to go bowling with the sushi. Maybe I was talking about playing guitar or any other random topic.

That's the point. You're bringing up a multimedia interface and comparing it to something entirely different that wasn't even in the conversation to begin with. Comparisons make no sense in this case.

 

Ok sorry for the delay rocketpig after my last post I left work. >.>

Look OSX and XMB share one thing in common, they are interfaces that allow easy access to apps (GUI). By that standard I have just as much right to compare the two, though as I've said many, many times already I'm comparing them based on my experiences.

As far as your retwisting the analogy, your actually proving my point from a previos post about apples and oranges before. You should really take your own wisdom for advice on this one.

I didn't want to get involved in this, but that is just plain and flat-out wrong. OS X is an operating system, and an operating system != GUI. Similarily, PS3 has an operating system, and the XMB is simply an application that provides a GUI for certain, limited set of operations. That's why your basic premise is wrong, you're comparing an application to an operating system. Though I do understand your point, which is that for purely multimedia purposes, it is simpler to pick-up and start using XMB, an application tailored just for that, rather than OS X, an operating system that can do infinitely more. Your result is hardly surprising, I believe the same holds for Vista and Linux as well. The situation would be different if you had picked up the IR remote that comes with every Mac and used Front Row, which is the OS X equivalent of XMB, or close to anyway.

And now, with the OS X Mobile 2.0, you could download and use the Remote application for controlling the multimedia functions of your Mac/Apple TV from your iPhone/iTouch, which would be a yet another comparison.