On Nov 2, 2004, at 1:55 AM, Andrew Hime wrote:
quoted 2 lines Yeah, um... we don't have ti. See, people actually develop software> Yeah, um... we don't have ti. See, people actually develop software
> for our platform. It's kinda convenient.
That's funny because there's over 30,000 apps (not including the
thousands of aforementioned Linux/Unix apps) for the Macintosh
platform. Name me a piece of software and I assure you there's a
facsimile for it that is arguably better on the Mac platform.
Now if you had mentioned games, I would have agreed with you. Windows
is a lot better for games, but really, I don't spend over a thousand
dollars just to play games. I use my computer to do serious stuff. If
I want games, I'll play a Playstation or Game Cube.
And for the record, I'm a dual Windows/Mac user. I was originally a
C64/Amiga user in the eighties (and also dabbled with Texas
Instruments, Apple II/Atari Falcon/Tandy/Mac computers) who then went
on to use DOS and later Win 3.1 in the nineties. I used Windows
exclusively from '91 on to 2001 (Win 3.1 - XP... although I secretly
lusted for BeOS). I got my first Mac in 2001, and since then I use
both Windows and Mac (Mac 9 and OS X). I also dabble in *Nix, but find
that the Mac does everything I need since it's a fully functional Unix
platform now (based on the respected *BSD branch).
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Mr. Tangent [the binary police]
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