| TheRealMafoo said: This article is less about the iPad, and more about what it means to the future of computing. Apple has successfully turned a multipurpose device (140,000 apps at the moment) into something that needs virtually no tech support, crashes almost never, and always has the correct hardware configuration to run any of those 140,000 apps. |
lol, do you have an iPhone? I have apps that crash all the time. Some are piddly little stupid games, some are major apps like Facebook or Google.
And then there's Safari, I don't think there's one session I've had where it hasn't crapped out on me (crash, freeze, ect). The only thing I use safari for is looking up recipes at the grocery store and Google and Safari always fails some way in both of those.
I don't know if you drank the Apple Cool-Aid or just haven't played with an iPhone but they aren't the sunshine and rainbows Apple makes you think they are. Don't get me wrong, they aren't bad but they aren't crash and bug free by far. I have just as many problems with my iPhone as I do my PC.
I get what the article is saying. In theory a closed system should be better because everything is the same but the harsh reality is that it just doesn't work in the real world. Almost every business needs something more than a mail client and an Office type program, they need custom programs doing custom things. If everything they need custom needs to be approved through Apple, that just isn't going to fly.
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Also, every good company should have a good IT guy that makes all the work involved with PC's invisible to the user. Sure, he may hate you for making him work, but he's better than some smarmy Mac Genius every company would have to hire.
