7 Oct
2011
7 Oct
'11
5:11 p.m.
On 07/10/11 3:06 PM, Tony Duell wrote:
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I have no liking of Apple products :
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I don't like that fact that they rarely, if ever, follow standards.
Eh? The company that first made the leap to USB? SCSI?
This is one of the most egregious and ridiculous lies that people tell
about Apple.
I
don't like the very odd disk format of The Apple ][, for example
I don't like the fact that early Mac OSs didn't have any form of command
line
Eh, it didn't matter unless you were accustomed to a command line, and
the Mac's targer user certainly was not. You are not the classic Mac's
target user, clearly.
"The computer for the rest of us," remember?
I don't like the fact that there has to be only one way to do something.
That was supposed to simplify the Mac user interface, it drives me mad.
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-tony