| [News] Executive Update - St. Louis and Beyond | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 06-Feb-2001 22:33 GMT by Christian Kemp | 34 comments
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There's a new executive update available at Amiga. Bill McEwen says Contrary to the rumors and what many people are saying about our demise, or that we are going to have the same fate of the others before us, we have a big surprise for all of them, and promises that all will be known in six weeks at the St. Louis show.
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| Posted by Anonymous on 08-Feb-2001 23:00 GMT | In reply to Comment 17 (Anonymous):
What bullshit you posted! OSX, as is being reported by the people using the pre-release candidates (are you one of them? - didn't think so) which has the DEBUGGING CODE REMOVED (remember that all publicly-released versions up to this point have had debugging code in place) are very very fast, especially on the dual-proc G4's.
The beta was released for developers to get a better sense of what was going to be in the final, it was not so end-(l)users like yourself could get the OS for $30 instead of $129. It also helped Apple get feedback on what developers would like to see in the OS when it gets released. It is a good sign for Apple that so many non-developers decided to pay for a beta release and not wait for the real OSX.
I will agree that there are many Mac users who will not accept the UI of OSX. There are many things about it that are just poor ideas, much like the Quicktime 4 UI debacle, most of it in the implementation of the Dock and the separation of the Finder and Desktop (though Apple has backtracked a bit on the latter). I also anticipate a very, very slow migration to OSX for graphics and video professionals. I have two Macs, and one of them will NEVER see OSX installed, not because of the UI, though, because the machine does a specific task well and I do not want to risk losing that ability. In fact, that machine runs only OS8.6, as the OS9 variants caused some things not to work properly.
One thing that is great about this OSX, contrary to your opinion, is the UNIX functionality. UNIX (including all variants) are only the most robust freakin' OS's there are. IT/Web professionals are happy to see this, as this means Apple finally can get into the server market and people can finally install standard software packages instead of freaky Mac-based bastardizations of software (MacPerl comes to mind). Linux/BSD cats are interested because porting their software to OSX won't be the same hassle it would be for, say, Windows or the current MacOS, which means that this could really expand the Linux and BSD software markets.
OSX has a command-line shell (finally, something MacOS has been missing ALWAYS) but if you are a lunkhead and cannot figure the cmmands or filesystem out (even though the OSX filesystem makes a lot more sense than, say, the Irix or Solaris filesystems) you do not have to use the command line. The GUI (Aqua) is different, there are a lot of things wrong with it, but the OS itself is very powerful and, given it has been open-sourced (Darwin) you may see other GUI's for it later down the road. If you haven't even used it, don't spout bullshit about it! |
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