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About this siteFor six years, the Internet Nexus served as my technology blog, but I've since started blogging at the SuperSite Blog instead. If you're looking for the blog, please head there. --Paul Tuesday, June 29, 2004An Engineer's Thoughts on Mac OS X TigerA surprisingly intelligent article from OSNews.com, where anyone can be a commentator: "Dashboard [is] a plain, simple and blatant ripoff of Konfabulator. The kind that makes you think that software patents aren't a bad thing after all. The kind that makes Steve Jobs look like a fool when the big banners for Tiger read 'Redmond: start your photocopiers'. Shame on you, Apple, this kind of behavior really doesn't make me want to give you any of my money, if all you do with it is drive your own developers out of business ... Steve Jobs claimed that the only OS transition ever to happen in the PC world was that in 1995 when going from DOS with Windows 95. Sorry buddy, but the transition from Windows 3.1/95/98/ME to Windows NT/2000/XP was at least as big. Or maybe I'd actually say that the PC world is unique in that it is able to maintain such a level of compatibility that no sharp transition is needed. The latest Windows is still able to run many 10-year-old applications. Most recent PCs can still run 10-year old DOS 6.22. By comparison compatibility in the Mac world is a total disaster ... When I interview a candidate whose resume lists tons of different competencies, I very much like to pick one which I am familiar with and ask a few advanced questions, the kind that can only be answered with some real knowledge and/or experience in the domain. When I get an unsatisfactory answer, all I can assume is that the knowledge of the candidate in the other domains is going to be as shallow. Similarly when I listen to Steve Jobs' glorified sales pitch, I recognize a few areas where I have some level of competency, and my knowledge in those areas makes me realize that MacOS isn't the perfect operating system that Apple would like me to believe. In summary, I don't think that MacOS 10.4 is worth my $129 ... At the moment, MacOS irritates me so much that I don't even want to use it any more, which means that I'm not really doing any photography. If Apple doesn't solve those issues with Tiger (or if they do but create many new ones on the way) I have the feeling that I'll go back to using my trusted old PC. It might be noisy and slow, but it just works much better for me. Your mileage may vary." [ Posted at 6:07 PM | Permalink ]
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