Comments on: Apple: Ego and Elegance

By: Katy

Katy — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 21:44:32 +0000

So, I broke down last fall and bought a MacBook Pro. After using PC’s basically my whole life except for a brief period in college and my first job (at motorola where we made the chips for macs at one time), I am now a true mac convert.

yes, apple has a big ego, but shoot, they have it for a reason. my MBPro is FANTASTIC. I run windows in a VM for my consulting gig, but if not for work, i would never use windows again.

Get a mac.. you won’t regret it..

By: Zdravko Galinec

Zdravko Galinec — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 23:33:20 +0000

I agree with Tom, how about a version of Power One for the iTouch/Phone, it’s the only reason I still have a PalmOS device.

Zee

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:11:32 +0000

Elia,
Excellent article. I think your comments are very thought provoking. I am definitely one of the Apple “fanboys”. I have owned Apple computers since 1989. Unfortunately however I have always worked in a PC world. I am an MCSE and have been networking PC’s since Lantastic in the 80′s. Apple can DEFINATELY be frustrating, however compared with Dell, Gateway, Cisco, 3Com, Cabletron, Acer I find their products to be far superior and their support much “cleaner” and simpler to use…however I love your point “what if” they had 35% what would they be like then?
Thanks for the blog and on an unrelated note – when’s PowerOne coming to the iPhone? I LOVE PowerOne and can’t wait to have it native on my iPhone so I can stop dragging my old Palm around just so I can have PowerOne with me.

Thanks,

Tom

By: Florent Pillet

Florent Pillet — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 17:14:47 +0000

It’s more attitude than ego. Big companies tend to not acknowledge problems until they become widespread. This said, if your iPod stopped working normally under warranty, they should have fixed it. Did you go to an Apple Store and talk to a “genius”?

About Apple laptops — I’m primarily a Mac person and even though I do some Windows stuff, I now do them on Mac too. For the last two years before I got my shiny new 8-core MacPro, I have been running on all my Mac, Palm & WM software development tasks on a MacBookPro, running Windows in a VM when I needed it. Works great for Windows Mobile softwqre development. Bonus, when running Windows in a VM you can have several separate images for different tasks and when it goes nuts, just scrap the image and restart from a backup.

The one thing I have with Apple products is hardware and software elegance. As a software developer, it is something that matters a lot to me. Even when you get deep down into the developer tools that Apple provides, you’ll find that they worked hard to make them powerful AND elegant at the same time.