| Domicinator said: I hate to tell you, but Mac OS is far far far from an open platform. I find it hilarious that you think that. It's proprietary just like Windows. And all the music and graphics software that is supposedly "better" on OSX according to Steve Jobs and his army of morons, is actually quite crippled and stripped down compared to some of the programs that are available on Windows (some of them are ONLY available on Windows). Garage band is absolute garbage compared to some of the stuff that's out there now, but nobody wants to hear that. Because.....well......because it's Garage Band!!! The ultimate software for creating and editing music!!!!! (Far from it.) Yes, people write all kinds of software for Mac OS, but there just aren't as many options out there for it, and god forbid if Steve Jobs catches wind of something that's not OSX-like enough. Mac OSX is more robust and stable you say? I can tell you right now that despite some of the GUI changes that people hate about Windows Vista, I have had extremely good stability from it, much more so than I got from XP or 2000. Because I'm a gamer, I felt the need to reinstall XP about once a year. It would just get sluggish and things would just stop working the way I wanted them to. I have had Vista installed since launch, and after all the driver issues got worked out, I haven't had one issue with it and I STILL don't feel any need at all to reinstall it. It's just as snappy and responsive as it was the day I installed it and it's been solid as a rock, even pre-SP1. I'm not saying everyone has had the same experience, but I am saying that you have absolutely no right to tell me that I should not be using Windows since it "blows". And as far as security, it's much easier to hack into a Mac system than a Windows system these days. You're not impervious to crapware and hackers just because you using a fucking Mac and if you think you, you're an absolute moron. |
So, you're comparing Garage Band to some unnamed software that is available only on Windows, stating that Garage Band is garbage. That's a good argument, really good. Who has ever claimed that Garage Band is "The ultimate software for creating and editing music!!!!!" ??? It's part of the iLife suite for crying out loud, it's an amateur program. And I'd like you to show me a program on Windows that does the same as Garage Band as easily anyway. You need to face the facts: pro audio production is 90% done on macs (and no, I don't have a research source to back this up, just some inside industry information). I'd hazard a guess that professional graphic design is also predominantly done on Macs.
Also, about the openness of the platform, can you state any examples of Mac programs that Steve Jobs or Apple has somehow disallowed? I don't think you can, but I'd be curious to know anyway. I stated in my earlier post that from a developer standpoint, OS X is in some ways more open a platform than Windows, care to comment on that? And what about the open source components used in OS X, and Apple's contributions to the open source community? Can you state any examples of MS doing the same? Bring in facts and proof, not just your own claims.
Securitywise Vista does seems to be a big improvement over XP, and that's a huge plus for MS. But on a practical level, Mac users don't have to worry nearly as much as Windows users. Like it or not, security through obscurity works.
