Sep 26, 2005
Switching…
There’s been some people writing about switching from Mac to Windows lately. Russell Beattie listed a number of reasons why he’s considering switching to Windows, and Tor Bjornrud says he’s already switched. Most of the reasons they give for switching (or considering switching) are subjective and personal reasons. I’m not disputing that they feel like they do, but if you read their resons remember they are for the most part not absolute and objective. Tor writes, for example, that “OS X is too narrow of a platform for developers to try and target, and consequently too frustratingly small of a sandbox to work in. It’s a sad but true reality.” If you look at the wealth of small/independent OS X developers and the high-class software they develop, I don’t think you can say it’s as easy as a “true reality.” Russell writes that he dislikes iPhoto, “don’t like Mail or Safari”, “don’t use iMovie”, “hate the Dock”, Expose is “nuts”, and Dashboard is “pretty useless”. Those might be his views, and that’s fair enough, but they are certainly not everyones.
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Well I really miss Mac and I can not wait to go back to it. I found that I could do anything I wanted on a Mac and somethings where easier and looked better. Magnus says that we will go back to Mac soon and I can not wait.
I miss Mac too. It’s just nicer to work on a Mac. Both hardware and software is better designed and gets out of the way of doing things. If I had a choice I’d use Macs for everything but seems like that’s not an option at work presently.
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