Comments on: The Mac As Just Another i-Screen in an iWorld. NO THANKS.

By: turbocharger

turbocharger — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 15:58:00 +0000

Awesome read. I just passed this onto a friend who was doing some research on that.
He actually bought me lunch because I found it for him! So let me rephrase:
thank you…

By: superchargers

superchargers — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 15:41:00 +0000

Awesome read. I just passed this onto a friend who was doing some research on that.
He actually bought me lunch because I found it for him! So let me rephrase:
thank you for lunch!

By: Adam Edwards

Adam Edwards — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 18:51:05 +0000

Of course this is where the Mac is headed. Why else are they so keen to push the iPad and the MacBook Air? It’s to blur the lines and give Steve complete control.

By: Jose

Jose — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 20:03:19 +0000

If all of these Mac App Store/iOS is the death of mac OS doomsayers are correct then why has apple yet to delete terminal.app??

To use Steve Term Apple will always be in the "Truck" business.

By: MIke Kaspar

MIke Kaspar — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 04:06:41 +0000

I think it’s worth withholding judgment until we have more details. I agree with one of the earlier comments ‘the searchblog is not what it used to be’. We’ve come to expect more here.

By: Omar Khan

Omar Khan — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 16:28:08 +0000

I think that you are too pessimistic, for the computer too is evolving and moving away from discs is a natural evolution of the platform. I like the way that Apple is learning from the iPhone and taking lessons back to other platforms. I remember that your predictions about the iPad were off too.

Apple's control system is irritating, despite its benefits, but also points the way for others to do better, like perhaps Amazon's upcoming Android App store.

By: Drew

Drew — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 07:15:38 +0000

John
as it is said before Mac OS X is a "unix-like" operating system (it is based on FreeBSD and NetBSD + NeXT)
You can install any application you want, you can compile your own app, download source code and compile..whatever you want. You can use Apple's XCode, you can use gcc for Mac OS X ..whatever you want
Jobs's App Store is just a tool of distribution of soft, one of many, you can go to Fry's or GameStop or you can use AppStore

By: food

food — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 22:09:56 +0000

Um, entertaining rant.

As a developer, I don't like the increasing control over the software ecosystem His Steveness is exerting. The man's a design genius, as the company's products (and his bank account) demonstrate. But if, as I expect, software from outside the App Store comes to be viewed as dodgey, the cost will be higher than the 30% tax.

It will be interesting to see how this plays out.

As for the iOS UI elements creeping back, whatever. As far as I can tell, it is just a sort of 'focus' mode - black out everything around your word processor view. Meh. Too many of us live wiht Xcode, a text editor, Mail.app, a Twitter client, iTunes, a terminal, a browser, etc. etc. open all at once for them to domb down the UI completely.

And if Jobs has, in fact, completely lost his mind, well, there's Linux, which is just fine these days. Not as polished as a Mac, but fine.

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 17:35:18 +0000

John,

I've been reading your site regularly since before you wrote The Search. Your writing is at its worst when covering Apple-related concerns, and rants like these make me want to visit your site less. Please don't blog about Apple, your site will be better off without it.

By: P Evans

P Evans — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 17:19:32 +0000

I would amend Ralph Haygood's statement with
"If they aren't smarter than that, well, forward to Linux." Certainly a big part of the success of OS X has been the combination of facile and beautiful (and inexpensive) applications combined with the *nix underpinnings. I've loved it, and would say I've had some of the most productive time of my career with Macs. I don't fear an iOS takeover nearly like Mr Battelle, but if it happens I know Ubuntu will do me just fine.