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[CT's]

yo john

so can I take it you think it is a good idea?

frankly,  I am not clear what a centrally controlled computing "ecosystem" is.

as far as apple making all the decisions about what native applications may be used - I see no problem with that, and as you say, it should avoid program [now apparently termed "applications"] incompatibility problems.

if only flight simulator x had worked like a charm on my mac mini, I would have been a convert.

[for realistic high frame rates Flight Sim X will use all the computing power that can be thrown at it. with a dedicated high end video card, etc. I can get 24 fps under normal conditions, but that will be dragged down to a jerky 13/18 fps flying over densely populated areas]

nor did I fancy paying up to $3299 for an 8 core apple pro to see if it would fly me................................!

[maybe apple folks don't sim!]

ct




From: John Feltham 
Sent: Monday, June 21, 2010 7:03 PM
To: Undisclosed recipients:
Subject: [BITList] This Mac devotee is moving to Linux


G'day Colin, 

On 21/06/2010, at 11:55 PM, CT's wrote:


http://www.salon.com/technology/dan_gillmor/2010/06/20/from_mac_to_linux

> what a traitor - eh, john?


> This Mac devotee is moving to Linux 


Not really. 


What he is not telling us - and I accept that he knows what he is writing about, is that LINUX is a sub-set of UNIX. And in turn OS X, the operating system of the Apple, is also a sub-set of UNIX.


He also writes...


"Apple is pushing computer users as fast as it can toward a centrally controlled computing ecosystem"


I don't know if I am dense, but isn't that what Bill Gates has been doing to the whole World with his [touch wood] Micro$oft OS?


He also writes...


"where it (Apple) makes all the decisions about what native applications may be used on the devices it sells"


Again what he doesn't state, is that by doing this Apple ensures that all software will work on an Apple machine. Something that Micro$oft cannot achieve, as they do not manufacture a single computer for the market. Hence there is a huge amount of the "blue screens of death" around in the Micros$oft world.


I rest my case....





ooroo


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