I find this article shocking in it's relentless dropping of brand names and painstaking effort to try each and every wrong solution to every sysadmin problem.
When I see how many people complain about their macs, it reminds me of the oldsters complaining about problems with their Buicks and Chevys long ago. After WWII there were large parts of the population such as veterans, Italians, Polish, and Jewish people who would not buy a Japanese or German car. These people let the quality of American cars deteriorate dangerously because they'd buy any bucket of bolts and rust that Detroit would offer. Slowly these people died off or eventually got burned so bad by a lemon they bought that by the 2008 financial crisis the last two hold outs, car rental companies and police departments, were wavering.
Detroit realized that shipping crap cars to car rental companies just meant that people who never drove American cans would be certain to drive bad ones, and decide that they never will drive American cars.
Cops in my area went so far as to road-test Hondas, but they are still stuck with getting American cars from an industry that isn't really sure if it wants to build police cars.
It is the same with the mac. There are many unhappy people who think using a different computer is like putting a hand in a toilet, so they are afraid to upgrade to better computers that are available on a competitive market.
A lot of the trouble in the software biz in the last 10 years or so is that there is a certain kind of company that buys every dev a mac, and that they live in a world that is so insular that they never meet anybody who uses a PC, although most of the end users have PCs.
Then they wonder why they can't sell any software and can only get acqui-hired.
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I find this article shocking in it's relentless dropping of brand names and painstaking effort to try each and every wrong solution to every sysadmin problem.
When I see how many people complain about their macs, it reminds me of the oldsters complaining about problems with their Buicks and Chevys long ago. After WWII there were large parts of the population such as veterans, Italians, Polish, and Jewish people who would not buy a Japanese or German car. These people let the quality of American cars deteriorate dangerously because they'd buy any bucket of bolts and rust that Detroit would offer. Slowly these people died off or eventually got burned so bad by a lemon they bought that by the 2008 financial crisis the last two hold outs, car rental companies and police departments, were wavering.
Detroit realized that shipping crap cars to car rental companies just meant that people who never drove American cans would be certain to drive bad ones, and decide that they never will drive American cars.
Cops in my area went so far as to road-test Hondas, but they are still stuck with getting American cars from an industry that isn't really sure if it wants to build police cars.
It is the same with the mac. There are many unhappy people who think using a different computer is like putting a hand in a toilet, so they are afraid to upgrade to better computers that are available on a competitive market.
A lot of the trouble in the software biz in the last 10 years or so is that there is a certain kind of company that buys every dev a mac, and that they live in a world that is so insular that they never meet anybody who uses a PC, although most of the end users have PCs.
Then they wonder why they can't sell any software and can only get acqui-hired.