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Re: Steve Jobs passed away!
« on: October 10, 2011, 06:40:34 PM »
Can you imagine a EMachine or Packard Bell Mac?  Controlling the hardware makes theOS the most stable on the market.  

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Could be seen either way, really.  Had they not, the market would have been flooded with half assed Mac clones, tarnishing the whole name. Ever buy a POS PC with Windows on it, and curse Windows daily? - then build your own system and find out it's not half bad?  I have.  Apple having the HW on lockdown with the OS seems to have served them quite well, so who knows how it would have gone if Jobs didn't can the program in the late 1990's.  It's given them a pretty much universal user experience offering, anyways.

Apple is a HW company, and I think we can all agree the prices for their systems/devices are very high.  Apple has a high artsy fartsy fanboy appeal that I think may have been diminished by a clone market.
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Re: Steve Jobs passed away!
« Reply #1 on: October 10, 2011, 06:49:37 PM »
Desktops are dying on their own, they'll survive in offices and as cheap alternatives to laptops.  Microsoft introduced the tablet as the replacement for the laptop, Steve saw it as a product BETWEEN a mobile phone and a laptop.  The days of one computer per household or person ended back around turn of the century.  Virtually all tech people have a smart phone, tablet, laptop and desktop.  Each has it's strengths and drawbacks.

I have a standard Mac keyboard I use with my iPad.  Bluetooth pretty much just works.  I can do work on the tablet when I need to.  But it's not a replacement for any of my other gadgets.  It's brilliant when you want to explain something to someone on the fly, check your stocks or play angry birds.

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That's just the talking point of tablet junkies, they're totally going to kill laptops and desktops dead, any day now even. Just you wait and see!
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Re: Steve Jobs passed away!
« Reply #2 on: October 10, 2011, 10:20:19 PM »
@commodorejohn

Get a tablet (iPad or good quality capacitive Honeycomb Android).  Try it for a few weeks and you'll understand.
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