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Re: OS X is a better operating system
Posted by 'davidmc' on 03 Jun 2010 @ 11:17

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If OS X is such a great operating system, why don't Apple allow it to be installed on any PC rather than a limited range of hardware? It can be done anyway, but it's unsupported and outside the terms of their license. It's obviously because:

1) They know that supporting such a wide range of hardware and software (especially third party stuff) does affect stability, yet this support is required by anyone doing much more than surf the internet.

2) They're trying to tie people into their products; something that always happens with proprietary hardware/software (it's the whole point really).

There is something that puzzles me about the whole Apple trend and that is; what do their products actually do? For instance, how would an Apple Mac user achieve the following:

1) Manage financial accounts for a small business, medium business and large business. Manage payroll for 50+ employees.

2) Develop PowerPC based embedded systems (I say PowerPC because Mac's used to run on them).

3) "Advanced" office based tasks such as linked spreadsheets, word processed documents and database integration as well as collaboration tools etc.

4) CRM databases.

5) Cutting-edge gaming with associated hardware support.

6) CAD/CAM.

7) Vehicle dynamics modelling.

How would an iPhone user achieve the following:

1) Send an sms to predefined groups of contacts.
2) Send an sms to all favourited contacts.
3) Send an sms composed on PC through the iPhone.
4) Send your own contact details to another phone.
5) Send all the phone numbers of another contact to another phone.

I could go on. It seems to me that the Apple products are very good at what they do, but they just don't do a lot.

Having said all that, the way most people use home PC's, Mac, Windows or Linux all fit the bill.

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UK Karting making IE crash by 'Gillard77' (02 Jun 2010 @ 17:18)

Re: UK Karting making IE crash by 'Newshound' (02 Jun 2010 @ 17:34)

Re: UK Karting making IE crash by 'Newshound' (02 Jun 2010 @ 17:41)

Re: UK Karting making IE crash by 'Trev' (02 Jun 2010 @ 19:01)

Re: UK Karting making IE crash by 'itpro' (02 Jun 2010 @ 19:30)

Re: UK Karting making IE crash by 'Trev' (02 Jun 2010 @ 20:38)

Re: UK Karting making IE crash by 'itpro' (02 Jun 2010 @ 21:13)

ipro is in Silly Billy's world! by 'Trev' (02 Jun 2010 @ 21:40)

Re: ipro is in Silly Billy's world! by 'Newshound' (02 Jun 2010 @ 22:00)

Re: ipro is in Silly Billy's world! by 'Trev' (02 Jun 2010 @ 22:03)

Re: ipro is in Silly Billy's world! by 'Newshound' (02 Jun 2010 @ 22:19)

Tesco value beans Vs Heinz Beans by 'Trev' (02 Jun 2010 @ 22:24)

Re: Tesco value beans Vs Heinz Beans by 'davidmc' (02 Jun 2010 @ 22:36)

Hope. thats a cop out............. by 'Newshound' (02 Jun 2010 @ 22:40)

OS X is a better operating system by 'Trev' (02 Jun 2010 @ 23:12)

Trev, stop being polite, tell it like it is. by 'alanrr' (02 Jun 2010 @ 23:27)

Re: OS X is a better operating system by 'Newshound' (02 Jun 2010 @ 23:34)

Re: OS X is a better operating system by 'Trev' (02 Jun 2010 @ 23:50)

Re: OS X is a better operating system by 'Newshound' (02 Jun 2010 @ 23:53)

Re: OS X is a better operating system by 'Trev' (03 Jun 2010 @ 22:31)

No, Trev by 'itpro' (03 Jun 2010 @ 1:14)

Re: No, Trev by 'Attack2001' (03 Jun 2010 @ 1:37)

Re: No, Trev by 'windoesnot' (03 Jun 2010 @ 11:39)

Re: No, Trev by 'alanrr' (04 Jun 2010 @ 23:31)

Re: OS X is a better operating system by 'davidmc' << You are here!

Re: OS X is a better operating system by 'itpro' (03 Jun 2010 @ 11:31)

Re: OS X is a better operating system by 'alanrr' (03 Jun 2010 @ 23:16)

Re: OS X is a better operating system by 'itpro' (04 Jun 2010 @ 1:04)

Let me be honest here, for a change! by 'itpro' (04 Jun 2010 @ 11:45)

Hmmmm........... :)) by 'alanrr' (04 Jun 2010 @ 13:55)

Re: Hmmmm........... :)) by 'alanrr' (04 Jun 2010 @ 14:13)

Re: Hmmmm........... :)) by 'jtthedevil' (04 Jun 2010 @ 14:25)

jtthedevil........I am surrounded by Macs & PC's. by 'alanrr' (04 Jun 2010 @ 19:32)

Re: Hmmmm........... :)) by 'davidmc' (04 Jun 2010 @ 14:26)

Alan by 'itpro' (04 Jun 2010 @ 17:52)

Re: Alan by 'alanrr' (04 Jun 2010 @ 23:38)

Re: Hmmmm........... :)) by 'alanrr' (04 Jun 2010 @ 19:28)

Re: OS X is a better operating system by 'rfakes' (09 Jun 2010 @ 16:25)

Re: UK Karting making IE crash by 'davidmc' (02 Jun 2010 @ 20:20)

Re: UK Karting making IE crash by 'alanrr' (02 Jun 2010 @ 23:17)

Apple is cool.... by 'rendall' (03 Jun 2010 @ 9:34)

Dave Rendall by 'alanrr' (03 Jun 2010 @ 23:20)

Re: UK Karting making IE crash by 'windoesnot' (03 Jun 2010 @ 11:45)

Re: UK Karting making IE crash by 'itpro' (03 Jun 2010 @ 16:11)

Re: UK Karting making IE crash by 'Gillard77' (03 Jun 2010 @ 9:35)

Re: UK Karting making IE crash by 'itpro' (03 Jun 2010 @ 11:54)

Re: UK Karting making IE crash by 'Gillard77' (03 Jun 2010 @ 13:02)

Re: UK Karting making IE crash by 'itpro' (03 Jun 2010 @ 16:03)

Re: UK Karting making IE crash by 'Gillard77' (03 Jun 2010 @ 16:24)

Re: UK Karting making IE crash by 'itpro' (03 Jun 2010 @ 16:31)

Re: UK Karting making IE crash by 'Gillard77' (03 Jun 2010 @ 16:31)

Re: UK Karting making IE crash by 'itpro' (03 Jun 2010 @ 16:38)

Re: UK Karting making IE crash by 'davidmc' (03 Jun 2010 @ 18:28)

Re: UK Karting making IE crash by 'Gillard77' (03 Jun 2010 @ 19:20)

just run Firefox instead ! nt. by 'Chads' (03 Jun 2010 @ 23:20)

Re: just run Firefox instead ! nt. by 'Newshound' (03 Jun 2010 @ 23:33)

Just don`t buy a Mac............nt by 'Newshound' (03 Jun 2010 @ 23:34)

Re: Just don`t buy a Mac............nt by 'merv' (04 Jun 2010 @ 11:16)

Re: Just don`t buy a Mac............nt by 'davidmc' (04 Jun 2010 @ 11:18)

Re: Just don`t buy a Mac............nt by 'chriskasch' (04 Jun 2010 @ 11:32)

Chris... by 'merv' (04 Jun 2010 @ 12:17)

Re: Chris... by 'davidmc' (04 Jun 2010 @ 12:21)

merv by 'chriskasch' (04 Jun 2010 @ 12:30)

Re: Just don`t buy a Mac............nt by 'davidmc' (04 Jun 2010 @ 12:19)

Re: UK Karting making IE crash by 'Jasper' (04 Jun 2010 @ 9:11)

Re: UK Karting making IE crash by 'Gillard77' (04 Jun 2010 @ 15:16)

Re: UK Karting making IE crash by 'davidmc' (04 Jun 2010 @ 15:36)

Re: UK Karting making IE crash by 'Gillard77' (04 Jun 2010 @ 15:53)

Did that fix it? (nt) by 'Jasper' (04 Jun 2010 @ 16:29)

No (nt) by 'Gillard77' (04 Jun 2010 @ 16:55)

Then try this. by 'Jasper' (04 Jun 2010 @ 17:22)

Re: Then try this. by 'Gillard77' (04 Jun 2010 @ 17:36)

Re: Then try this. by 'Jasper' (06 Jun 2010 @ 15:16)

Re: Then try this. by 'Gillard77' (06 Jun 2010 @ 15:21)

So............ by 'itpro' (08 Jun 2010 @ 13:11)

Re: So............ by 'Gillard77' (15 Jun 2010 @ 8:30)

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