Why I love Apple
Now that my blog content has changed, I have started to gear my posts more towards things going on in the media. You will notice a lot of my posts have to do with the ipad at the moment simply because I’m obsessed and reallllllly want one! Not only that but as I have been working with technology more and more I have started to realize really how AWFUL Microsoft products are. As if it wasn’t bad enough that Microsoft made a sub par product, the manufactures of hardware related to this software is in most cases cheap junk. It is blatantly obvious if you are to look at 2 machines, the mac book air, and the dell adamo or adamo xps. At first glance the adamo looks like a well constructed machine very similar in design to the mac book air with some even cooler features than the mac book. However examination of the best buy laptop that is only a number of months old that has broken pieces and nasty stuff all over it, should tell you how well this machine will hold up. Especially because if you turn around you can go to town on the mac book air, but when you look at the mac book air you notice nothing is broken. The outside and inside still look clean. The unibody aluminum case has no screw holes or signs that is easy to take apart. When you use it the shiny aluminum stays cool and it IS fast. So anyways the point of all this being is that on my wall I have an embedded system that runs different versions of linux from GoS to ubuntu in one neat package. On my laptops I run windows xp and windows 7 ultimate. I have an xbox 360, and a server that runs windows home server. So believe me I do use microsoft products. My phone, that is a different story. If you would have asked me a year ago what phone do I have I would have told you windows mobile. I would have been the first person to advocate microsoft products and bash apple. Why? because Apple has a strangle hold on hardware and software. To me I thought you should give more freedom to people with your products. You should let people do what they want with what they buy from you. To really understand why this is something that is very important about apple that has been at the core of its foundation since its inception, you have to go back to the beginning, back to the home brew computer club in my area of the silicon valley in the mid 70’s. Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs created the first computer and marketed it for $666. It was such a success that a few years later the Apple II E was launch in the mid 80’s. Most people remember the apple II e as the first real computer with a monitor and keyboard. By this time Apple was a growing company and Jobs started designing the Apple Macintosh. For all purposes the Mac was the first modern computer as we know it. It functioned on the first GUI available to the public. It had the first mouse and during creation Jobs pushed the designers to create a revolutionary machine. That is exactly what Jobs created. However Jobs has always been one to throw current to the side for future technologies. While this is great for the people who are ahead of the curve this tends to not go over well with the general public so the Mac flopped. While it was an innovation of the times it was far too advanced for what the public was ready for. Jobs has always and will always have a vision for his machines that is far greater than the dells or HPs. While you get freedom with a windows machine. With an apple machine you get less freedom but you have the backing of a company with apples reputation for quality and future technologies.
