Re: Amelio's Ouster

[amitai.schlair@usa.net (Amitai Schlair)]

Anonymous <nobody@REPLAY.COM> wrote:

> Let me say this right off: the Macintosh and the PC are both fine
> computers.  The GS is a nice hacker and creativity machine and the Amiga
> had the potential to be a better multimedia computer than either the Mac
> or PC.  But Mac and PC users still choose to not see merits in any other
> computer, but insist on the absurd religious "advocacy" of their own
> platform.

Maybe I'm an anomaly, but there are benefits to pretty much *every*
platform. For Wintel, benefits include initial price (whether it's
cheaper in the long run is debatable), installed base, and variety of
available hardware and software; for Mac, benefits include a history of
innovation, lower costs of maintenance, a reputation for hardware and
software quality (and plug-and-play); for the various Unices, benefits
include robust OS services and industrial-strength networking. This is
why I'm looking forward to Rhapsody and faster PPC processors so much --
a single PC can have the interface and hardware quality of Mac,
robustitude (is that a word? :) of UNIX, and speed enough to run Windows
in emulation. (Not to mention emulators for plenty of other
platforms...) It's going to be very exciting when Apple gets there, even
if they end up behind schedule -- Rhapsody will be so damn cool that I'm
willing to wait as long as they need.

Anyway, my point (yes, I have one!) is that a computer user who thinks
that another platform "sucks" has some serious rethinking to do.
Anything that lets you do your work faster, better, and more easily is
unequivocally good.

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Amitai Schlair
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