In the past year both Apple and Microsoft have been getting on my nerves with their attitude. They seem to be more interested in making profit than high quality products that people would want to buy.
Microsoft are pushing people to upgrade to Vista, their new operating system, by not releasing DirectX10 for windows XP meaning that if people want to play the latest games they have to have a vista computer. Microsoft have also caused confusion not only for it’s general users but the computer experts as well by releasing several different versions of the same OS. With Windows XP you had home edition or the professional edition if you wanted extra security and network abilities, There is also the 64bit version of Windows XP Professional for those who needed a lot of memory or used 64bit programs but this was only used by the high end market. Vista has about 5 different versions and that is without going into the different types of ways you get it. These are just the versions for the desktop or workstation, they probably have just as many versions for the servers. I think it would be so much easier for everyone if they had one OS for desktops and workstations and another OS for servers.
Apple have been annoying me with they iPod / iPhone because they seem to have put in a lot of resources into this instead of concentrating on their computers. Apple used to be mainly a computer company as shown by their name that was Apple Computers Inc. before they changed it to Apple Inc. after they starting making shinny things that you can put in your pocket. The development of the iPhone has pushed back the release of the new OS called Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and as a result OS X 10.4 Tiger has gone to subversion 11 instead of stopping at the subversion of 9 like all the other releases of OS X have.
Ah yes the preverbial question about….money or respect from the public.
Well as any good company they need a lot of resources to produce quality tech.
And one of the ways to get money is true new stuff on the market.
It makes me feel sad because they seem to become more and more like Microsoft.
I just hope they get things in hand before its too late.
But i feel things have already gotten too far as the OS X 10.4 Tiger showed up.
Both of the companys need a wake up call to bring them back down to earth.
I am one of the most neutral people out there. I have been to each of the companys ‘big’ conventions where they give out free stuff and both have something to offer. The company I used to work for had Macs Wintel and nix computers all for varying tasks…….this is how the world should be…….fan boys need to die. One thing apple really had my interest in the past was for the fact that it made hardware and software……they made everything, now they are technically 2 separate companys since you can roll windows on an intel mac. Both companys have alot of things going for them they just need to figure out what they want to be when they grow up and neither know…..Microsoft is too busy trying to be Google and everyone kind of looks at apple at times and goes…….what the hell is that supposed to do? DO WE REALLY NEED THIS? ……yes you need this the JOBS has foreseen.
I dont know what to camp out in any more……they both scare me and i keep expecting to hear bombs falling from the sky as one finaly ‘does it’