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Originally posted by: ricarleite
... or our own OS, Freedows.
Like the corn chip?
Oh wait, that's "Fritos". Sorry.
Jay, you make some damn good points. Admittedly. And I do place a lot of blame on the developers and support personnel. Most of them don't know what they do. I know I shouldn't blame the format but when their actions so dramatically affect the platform that I'm using, it's hard to not just lump the blame on it. With so many developers and support personnel, etc., etc., ad infinitum out there, how the hell is an average user supposed to know who to go to? Who do you ask for help? And how friggin' long must you sit on the phone once you determine who you should contact?
As a Mac user, I know who to contact immediately. There is one place to go. And I've never had a problem getting through to them. Maybe others have, but I haven't.
I do think Macs are pretty. But I've seen some damn pretty PCs too. "Pretty" is not an attribute solely dominated by Macs. Although they do have a tendency to lead the pack
.As for stability, I never claimed Mac OS was best nor did I claim it was infallible. It has its problems, like any OS. But updates come out very regularly as soon as Mac discovers the problem. It seems like every other week, my little updater icon is bouncing around in my toolbar telling me that I've got a new security update. Now how long do some security holes remain unpatched for Windows? Isn't this the primary reason why so many have switched over to Linux? Isn't the lack of a security fix for IE (which, as I've just learned, is embedded in the Windows software), the reason why so many are switching over to Mozilla's Firefox? People are staying PC, but starting to move away from the company that made it the dominant force that it is. That's not very reassuring to me. And they're doing it in droves. So maybe Windows is stable (I've got XP on my PC at work and I do like it; much better, in fact, than any previous version of Windows I've ever used), but why are these people straying away from it? The entire Brazilian government?!? C'mon. What does that say?
EDITED: I accidentally put in 2000 when I meant to say I have WinXP at work. Whoops.