I had an epiphany this evening while fixing yet another screwed up QuickTime/iTunes install.
- FACT: Apple consistently spread FUD about how Windows is so much less stable and reliable than OS X.
- FACT: A large proportion of the PC problems I deal with are to do with Apple software being installed on it and breaking horribly.
The way I see it, there are only two logical reasons for this:
- REASON A: Apple are deliberately writing broken software for the PC in order to support their flawed argument that Windows is unreliable.
- REASON B: Apple are in fact completely incapable of writing software that works.
Right now I’m leaning heavily towards the former, but I hereby invite all Apple supporters to pick either one of these reasons and explain why that reason should convince me to ‘make the switch’.
UPDATE 00.21: More than 2 hours later and I’m still trying to figure out how to get this bloody iTunes install to work again. Anyone thinking of taking up my above invitation best be warned: I am not in the best of mindsets for hearing how fabulous Apple is right now.
#1 by alilizbeth on 28 January, 2008 - 9.07 pm
Well, Apple software does usually work on Macs (keep in mind that I am not one of those “Mac is totally awesome all the time” people because I have had to reinstall my OS more than once since I got the iBook). Conversely, the major problems that I have had with my iBook, once the OS calmed down, have been with Microsoft products like, say, Word and Powerpoint and Excel, which regularly freeze or shut down for no reason that is apparent to me.
So I think the larger issue is one of cross-platform compatibility, rather than that the folks at Apple or Microsoft don’t know what they’re doing. The two systems are different, and perhaps we should ask them to create completely separate programs rather than adapting them for different platforms.
But, you know, that’s just my two cents, and keep in mind before you snap that I am a humanities major, and I bought the Mac because it’s cute and largely fool-proof and easier to type Greek on and doesn’t get the blue screen of death very often. But mostly because it’s cute.
BTW, congrats on the new position.