For years we have had the Mac vs PC articles where each states why their choice is superior. Personally, I’ve seen it as the Mac has advantages and disadvantages as so does the PC. Pick which one is most suitable for your use and go for it. Each has a place on the market.
Then along comes a patent that changes all that and we finally come across a good reason to steer clear of Macs. A disadvantage so big it will cause even hardened Mac addicts pause before buying a new Mac.
An enforced Ad watching patent. Curse Apple and all who sail in her… Err.. You get the idea anyway because soon it will be embedded in Windows and we all will be cursed.
Won’t be long before you are watching an advert before the video you have downloaded or installing an upgrade to your software or, the list goeson, and this software will make sure you watched the adverts first.
Bill Hicks had it right about advertisers and curse Apple for making this nightmare a reality.
Won’t be long before you are watching an advert before the video you have downloaded
Happens now but good old Apple let’s you switch it off. Many reasons to prefer Macs, Lord T.
James,
It will go in the Mac OS first because it will be free. Other OS suppliers will have to pay and you can be sure it won’t go in Linux. That leaves Windows and if people want to pay MS to install it they will pay the patent to Apple.
Fingers crossed nobody wants it and it’ll only be Mac users that get it.
Then try turning it off.
I’m interested in this new Google OS that’s on the way, essentially an OS in a web browser I believ, especially since nowadays I do almost all my work in “The Cloud”, letting remote servers store my work (although I do of course have back-ups on my USB stick collection, etc). Re Mac v Windows, I’ve been both in my day, but was exclusively Windows for a years because the PCs running it are better value, all things considered, end of story. I got an Ubuntu Linux netbook a few months ago though, and it is OK, although it does have some little niggles (like the update that swapped my and characters on the keyboard
My son, currently in his masters year as a physics student, says it has to be Linux for him because he just can’t run his crucial programs in anything else. So I gues it’s “horses for courses” and at least we have a choice
I meant the Ubuntu Linux update swapped my quotation mark and email (at) symbols on my keyboard, but your comment form didn’t seem to like them so cut them out
I don’t see the Google OS being that different from the MS one although I would envisage it would be much faster and a lot smaller.
Every now and again I try Linux again to see how it is coming on. It’s coming around to that time.
I have thought about this for some time and conclude it must be an American thing – they seem to be obsessed with advertising. I can see that type of intrusiveness driving people away – not something Apple could stand.
Having tried most of the operating systems available, in virtual machines on my OS/2, I’ll stick with OS/2 thank you. It may no longer be supported by IBM but they did a very good job on it in the first place and I’ve never found another OS with the active desktop we have.
Ivan,
Advertising is king in America. Bill Hicks, used to suggest they killed themselves and had a section of his act about them. He is missed.
You must be happy with your programs being from the early 90s or does it run any modern software?
Lord T,
You might be surprised at what we can run on OS/2. We have Open Office 311, Firefox 354 plus a beta of the latest. I can play DVDs without problems and we have quite a range of *nix software ported. There is also a beta version of flash 10 in the pipeline – though I can play all the youtube clips I want with the version I have. Windows games are a little bit of a problem bit I’m not into that so it doesn’t worry me. So I would say yes it does run modern software.
It also runs on modern hardware – I have a couple of AMD X2 based machines and am looking at getting one of the quad core processors when I can afford it from my very reduced pension – thanks Gordon.
Ivan,
I’m impressed. It’s been so long since I looked at it that I had forgotten how versatile it was.