Mac vs Windows. For most of the computer geeks/nerds of my age (14 years old), we see them as 2 separate OS in a war probably going to rage until they declare war on humans…
…Anyway, older tech junkies will know that Microsoft was once part of apple – using Steve Job’s incompetence to steal the “Mac look” before separating from them with a Mac clone. The ‘Mac look’ was simple – a bitmap on a screen with a clicker on it, and a gadget called mouse to control the clicker.
Meet Windows. On another note, Jobs was fired not long after that and the only way he got back into Apple was via Pixar (yes, he co-founded Pixar).
Now, more then 20 years later, Windows is credited as the first one which added a bitmap as a control interface, and Mac is using humor to rip Windows apart, a finger at a time. Apple now has a cult following (sorry, fanboys), and everything they produce is promised to be super, and sell well. Whatever happened to the failed Apple TV? Oh, it did not get dragged down…
Let’s face it. Apple has a coat of invincibility. Whatever they screw up, they are instanly redeemed. For Windows? One word: Vista. Vista screwed Microsoft up real bad. Now it seems that Mac is better then a PC, not just a good piece of software”.
But really? Let me make this clear: MAC IS NEVER GOING TO TAKE OVER COMPUTERING, UNLESS THEY DO ONE THING.
The one thing? Â Mr Jobs need to open their hardware. Macs are only made by Apple. Not by dell, IBM or any other 3rd party company. I recently wrote a post on my blog relating macs to Communism. Why? Because the Mac’s hardware is made by apple. You cannot have a custom Mac. Sure, it stops the user base from fragmenting, but it means Macs can’t be improved on by others.
If Macs take over, Dell, IBM, or any other companies making PCs will die. It’s a competitive market- and each try to 1-up the other.
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WOW! That was the most uninformed article I have read in a long time. MS was never part of Apple. They made some of the first software for the Mac, but were incorporated in 1975, nine years before the Mac was released(1984) and one year before Apple was incorporated (1976). If Windows stole from anyone initially, it was Xerox, who invented the mouse and the windowing GUI. Apple stole from them too. And if there was an incompetent organization, it was IBM, who paid MS to build OS/2 under a contract that allowed MS to rebrand the OS as their own, which became Windows. Steve Jobs came back to Apple because of his ownership of NeXT, whose Operating Systems, NeXTStep and OpenStep, became the basis of OS X, not because of Pixar. Steve Jobs big blunder was hiring John Sculley (then CEO of Pepsi) as CEO, who subsequently forced Jobs out of the company. The clone market did not start until after Jobs left, and MS had nothing to do with it. As for Apple and Communism, it is a ridiculous comparison. They are no different than a lot of companies. Blackberry makes their hardware and software and does not open it to others, Cisco, Sony, Nintendo and dozens of other companies do the same. It is not Communism to keep your intellectual property private and under your sole control. That is, in fact, the core of Patent law and one of the foundations of capitalism. Communism would dictate opening it to all. Finally, it's computing, not computering. On a personal note, I hope Apple never supplants MS. Being the underdog makes them work harder.
Congrats on your site, it's cool and I remember being a tech-savvy 14-year-old. Just spend a little more time on your research. You are entitled to your own opinions, but not your own facts.
Funny, at least you had a point there. But if Macs open up, they won't be different from other PC manufactures. Macs biggest strong point is the harmony of their software and hardware lineup, and the only way to make it happen is by closing the platform.
Microsoft's strong point (be its weak point as well) is the customization and backward compatibility of various hardware and software products. Which their corporate customers want.
Hey! I just read your bio and did not realize you were in Singapore. I apologize for the critique of the word Computering. Your English is very good, and I did not realize it might be a second language. My daughter is studying Chinese, and I hope her Chinese is as good as your English one day.
One more apology. MS was founded in 1975, but incorporated in 1981. I am not entitled to my own facts either.
well, one thing for sure. You're not making a balance judgment between the 2 operating systems. Try writing something unbiased, it will probably spruce more interest for your reader than your one sided point of view. I wouldn't fault a 15year old for that, keep writing to improve on it.
Very huge MS fanboy i see there though..
Cheers!
Nice article you have there, but I couldn't agree with you on Vista being a failure. It's actually better than Windows XP imo. (I used to use Windows Vista for one year until I upgraded to Windows 7 Ultimate last month, but I'm still using XP in my workplace).
Vista's slower than XP when using the same hardware but with better hardwares, Vista can seriously outperform XP alot. (When XP hangs, you gotta wait for 30 or 40 sec for response time, while you can still ctr alt delete in Vista and close the hanged programme within a split second.)
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Good article anyway, will be visiting this site from time to time. :]
About Mac though, I believe they are already doing quite well by positioning their product to be on the “higher end” of the market share. Maybe it'll backfire them if they make their product 'more open source'. :p
Felix (Singaporean too)
Oh, and Windows did copy Mac (at lease the UI). Not that obvious, but go and watch “Pirates of the silicon valley”. The mouse was apple's device after they bought it, but Microsoft hijacked it and retrieve it from them. (unless the movie is.. wrong)
But tips on how I can improve are always appreciated. Cheers!
Interesting post, because nowadays I seldom see comparisons being done on Windows VS Mac. In the first place not many people (percentage-wise, of course) even see Mac as a close competitor of Windows.
Windows is here to stay, whether we like it or not. I'm a self proclaimed Linux fanboy who uses Windows like 90% of the time. It just isn't easy to get rid of the habit/addiction.
Anyway first time passerby from Singapore here. I'd have to admit that I am more than impressed by your geek squad (and blog of course). A professional web developer at 14? Ruby? SQL? Oh look, a 14 year old who plays with Linux? Hey, this isn't the US!!! Shoo, kids should be playing online games.
Shucks, you guys are amazing xD
Didn't know that Windows and Mac split.
For Apple's immunity to public tongue lashings until you'e able to customize I don't see them growing to anywhere near Microsoft's size.
Their invincibility is due to their size. If they great to anywhere near MS's size more critics jump out of the woodwork and they are no longer bullet-proof. It's a numbers things.
RB
Newsflash: There is more to the OS market besides simply just usability (hardware compatibility, graphical user interface) and 'flashiness' (cool flashy stuff found in a Mac).
Let's face it, security comes first before anything else.
As quoted from the article right above, “Mac’s hardware is made by apple….Macs can’t be improved on by others.”
Linux is open source. Apply the same logic here, and we will all come to the very same conclusion: Microsoft and Mac's operating system cannot be improved on by others. Linux? Fear not, we have the whole world to shield our little penguin.
Next in the line would be cost and perhaps usability.
Cost of Mac: Nearly a thousand or more
Cost of Windows: A couple hundreds
Cost of Linux: 0 + hardware, which is like almost free? Even my 10 year old desktop can run Linux.
Finally, as Ryan has kindly pointed out some time ago, “Their invincibility is due to their size. If they great to anywhere near MS's size more critics jump out of the woodwork and they are no longer bullet-proof. It's a numbers things.”
Similarly, if Macs were to ever become as powerful as Windows, the blackhats will simply shoot them in the arse and take over. Period, it's that easy. Even as of now, Mac's security is already as terrible as Window's.
Newsflash: There is more to the OS market besides simply just usability (hardware compatibility, graphical user interface) and 'flashiness' (cool flashy stuff found in a Mac).
Let's face it, security comes first before anything else.
As quoted from the article right above, “Mac’s hardware is made by apple….Macs can’t be improved on by others.”
Linux is open source. Apply the same logic here, and we will all come to the very same conclusion: Microsoft and Mac's operating system cannot be improved on by others. Linux? Fear not, we have the whole world to shield our little penguin.
Next in the line would be cost and perhaps usability.
Cost of Mac: Nearly a thousand or more
Cost of Windows: A couple hundreds
Cost of Linux: 0 + hardware, which is like almost free? Even my 10 year old desktop can run Linux.
Finally, as Ryan has kindly pointed out some time ago, “Their invincibility is due to their size. If they great to anywhere near MS's size more critics jump out of the woodwork and they are no longer bullet-proof. It's a numbers things.”
Similarly, if Macs were to ever become as powerful as Windows, the blackhats will simply shoot them in the arse and take over. Period, it's that easy. Even as of now, Mac's security is already as terrible as Window's.
Didn't know that Windows and Mac split.
For Apple's immunity to public tongue lashings until you'e able to customize I don't see them growing to anywhere near Microsoft's size.
Their invincibility is due to their size. If they great to anywhere near MS's size more critics jump out of the woodwork and they are no longer bullet-proof. It's a numbers things.
RB
Newsflash: There is more to the OS market besides simply just usability (hardware compatibility, graphical user interface) and 'flashiness' (cool flashy stuff found in a Mac).
Let's face it, security comes first before anything else.
As quoted from the article right above, “Mac’s hardware is made by apple….Macs can’t be improved on by others.”
Linux is open source. Apply the same logic here, and we will all come to the very same conclusion: Microsoft and Mac's operating system cannot be improved on by others. Linux? Fear not, we have the whole world to shield our little penguin.
Next in the line would be cost and perhaps usability.
Cost of Mac: Nearly a thousand or more
Cost of Windows: A couple hundreds
Cost of Linux: 0 + hardware, which is like almost free? Even my 10 year old desktop can run Linux.
Finally, as Ryan has kindly pointed out some time ago, “Their invincibility is due to their size. If they great to anywhere near MS's size more critics jump out of the woodwork and they are no longer bullet-proof. It's a numbers things.”
Similarly, if Macs were to ever become as powerful as Windows, the blackhats will simply shoot them in the arse and take over. Period, it's that easy. Even as of now, Mac's security is already as terrible as Window's.
Newsflash: There is more to the OS market besides simply just usability (hardware compatibility, graphical user interface) and 'flashiness' (cool flashy stuff found in a Mac).
Let's face it, security comes first before anything else.
As quoted from the article right above, “Mac’s hardware is made by apple….Macs can’t be improved on by others.”
Linux is open source. Apply the same logic here, and we will all come to the very same conclusion: Microsoft and Mac's operating system cannot be improved on by others. Linux? Fear not, we have the whole world to shield our little penguin.
Next in the line would be cost and perhaps usability.
Cost of Mac: Nearly a thousand or more
Cost of Windows: A couple hundreds
Cost of Linux: 0 + hardware, which is like almost free? Even my 10 year old desktop can run Linux.
Finally, as Ryan has kindly pointed out some time ago, “Their invincibility is due to their size. If they great to anywhere near MS's size more critics jump out of the woodwork and they are no longer bullet-proof. It's a numbers things.”
Similarly, if Macs were to ever become as powerful as Windows, the blackhats will simply shoot them in the arse and take over. Period, it's that easy. Even as of now, Mac's security is already as terrible as Window's.