Re: Re: iPod Shuffle / ITunes

[Chris Hunter <cjhunter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ian -

Thanks, well said !   Actually, I wasn't knocking MS - Office on the
Mac has a lot going for it !   OTOH my comments were born out of my
daily frustrations and the rather odd tendency of people to blame
themselves rather than demand something better ... .   Apple did once
make the pretty stupid mistake of keeping things to themselves ...
but that's been changing for a while ... .   Of course they're far
from perfect !   But I do think they offer the prospect of a way
forward that everyone can participate in, not just IT devotees !

Some time ago I bought Bill Gate's book ... keen to read of his
vision & his house, with its HA ... what a disappointment (to put it
mildly !)


Chris


On 26 Dec 2005, at 18:11, Ian Lowe wrote:

> > IMHO the first-named is ad-hoc rubbish written by monkeys who've
> seen
> something that
> > looked pretty & tried to copy it ... most things on the
former
> involve a
> distracting fight, and
> > become very long- winded ... sorry !
>
> Now come on Chris - don't sit on the fence here man. If you don't
> like MS,
> come out and say it!
>
> Of course, you have a point - in most of these cases, the choice
> about which
> system to use is a very easy one to make - and that choice is best
> informed
> by the experience of trying things for yourself. Implied in that,
> of course,
> is that "my OS is better than your OS" arguments are pretty
> pointless, as
> all we can do at the end of the day is share personal experiences.
>
> I always get nervous when I see such strong opinions not only about a
> product, but about the company that produced it - Microsoft's devs
> are just
> as well skilled as those working for Apple, they are simply driven by
> different management processes and priorities, and I just don't see
> any
> technical superiority in Apple as against MS, as against Sun, and
> so on.
>
> Personally, I wouldn't touch the Steve Jobs Combo Platter with a
> forty foot
> pole, but that's the sum of my current experience, nothing more. If
> you go
> back to 1995, I expressed the opinion that VMS was the greatest OS
> ever
> written, and Unix was junk in comparison... See how well that one
> turned
> out. ;)
>
> I hope that I'm just as capable of changing my opinions in the next
> ten
> years.
>
> Ian.
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