Apple for dummies
Apple’s penetration of the geek market over the last five years or so has bugged me … for that long. It has been far longer than that since I’ve read a comp.*.advocacy threadflamewar, so stumbling upon Mark Pilgrim’s post on dumping Apple and its heated responses made me feel good and nostalgic.
Tim Bray (who does not b.s.) answers Time to Switch? affirmatively.
I hope this is the visible beginning of a trend and that in a few years most people who ought to know better will have replaced laptops sporting an annoying glowing corporate logo with ones sporting Ubuntu stickers.
June 19th, 2006 at 8:48
Think Different. Apple. Boycott.
Its has always amazed me how brainwashed people, aka consumers, get from purchasing products in the name of “good design” and “ease of use” when the companies they buy their products from harm the communities they take their cod…
July 6th, 2006 at 0:53
[...] The ascendancy of web applications does not make the desktop unimportant any more than GUIs made filesystems unimportant. Another layer has been added to the stack, but I am still very happy to see any move of lower layers in the direction of freedom. [...]
September 23rd, 2006 at 19:29
[...] So I’d like to see a hardware startup (or division of an existing company) sell a line of Laptops designed for Linux, where everything “just works” just as it does on Macs, and for the same reasons — limited set of hardware to support, work on the software until it “just works” on that hardware. There’s probably even some opportunity for Apple-like proprietary control over some aspects of the hardware. Which reminds me, what legal barriers, if any, would someone who wants to manufacture the OLPC design face? There is discussion of a commercial subsidiary for the project: The idea is that a commercial subsidiary could manufacture and sell a variation of the OLPC in the developed world. These units would be marked up so that there would be a significant profit which can be plowed into providing more units in countries who cannot afford the full cost of one million machines. [...]
November 20th, 2006 at 19:05
[...] Disclaimer: I’m no fan of Apple. [...]
January 5th, 2007 at 22:16
[...] You have a problem. When it comes to controlling your computing environment (i.e., much of your communication, your work, your life), you’re stupid. [...]
June 28th, 2007 at 2:14
[...] Mike Linksvayer, a Macintosh-hater, will strongly disapprove, I’m sure. Apple’s penetration of the geek market over the last five years or so has bugged me … for that long. [...]
March 23rd, 2008 at 22:21
[...] have very low expectations for Apple, so them installing software without the user requesting it doesn’t surprise [...]
April 5th, 2008 at 21:42
Mark Pilgrim’s pessimistic 18 months later post. I agree with the more optimistic comments who say the switch will take some time. Many commenters also said Mark’s abandonment of Apple led to their own.