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I recall a survey on the digital reader site of students' hardware choices. They overwhelmingly chose laptops over tablets. That agrees with your point about entering text. Laptops are much better to write on. |
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And yet they have been dominating the personal computer world for decades. They've made some gaffs, but they continue to succeed. When I first the title of this thread, I thought it meant it would be a good thing for Apple if they become the next Microsoft. It would mean personal computer world domination and almost monopoly status. I think Apple would love to have MS's market position.
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Knowledgeable users of window's various operating systems know not to use all the bundled software / tools, because, well, some of them suck. Take for example the Search facility in Windows 7. The interface is fundamentally flawed. And MS has never bothered to fix it. Rather than deal with what is at heart a bad utility, I install a third-party tool. Windows is well supported by 3rd-party software. And does anybody who knows what they're doing use IE? I don't mean to be condescending by that, but I personally have found it's so much easier to install Firefox or Chrome than deal with IE which kept crashing. MS are great and not fixing flaws but still they succeed. I guess part of the cause is simple product lock-in. |
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That's the perception, but I bet you can't support the position with data. In the early 90s I attended a MacWorld and someone had a Mac and a PC doing desktop publishing. The point was that the PC could do what the Mac could for about half the price -- that's advertising. It's hard to believe the same hasn't happened with music and video since.
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This off course isn't data, but it is fairly representative of a prevailing attitude in those businesses. |
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And I'm not clear on what you are talking about in the first part of the post in reply to pl001. Are you talking about an old computer running XP or a new computer running XP? Specs have changed a lot over the last decade. Quote:
The first thing that I do on a windows computer is install another browser. But I've used IE occasionally. I block some things in Firefox and instead of allowing them and blocking them again when I want to see something it is easier to open the webpage in IE. |
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Tech support for a piece of software that doesn't actually have the capabilities to understand the internet in the first place? By which I mean those parts of it that aren't 6 years old, like most of the important stuff. Because so many people call up MS Tech support when Gmail crashes on them. By abandoned, we mean, or at least everyone other than you seems to mean, a piece of software that hasn't been updated to be useful in the current state of things. 99% of all calls will go like this: "Hi this is Tech Support. How may I help you? Oh, that? That doesn't work on this version, update your browser." |
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So there is your falsifying case on that assertion. But I am not sure what the assertion has to do with Apple's future. Last edited by theinfamousj; 03-02-2014 at 02:28 AM. |
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What OS can't you run the latest Firefox on? I know plenty of people who run it on WinXP without any problems -- well, not any FF problems. |
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Good points. Over the past 2 years I've owned 3 tablets 2 androids and 1 iPad. Guess which one I've had the longest and still have? The iPad mini. I've had it for over a year now. My mum is still clinging on to her iPhone 4 lol she's had it since 2010 and is way past her upgrade date. She took out a second line and got a samsung galaxy S3 but she rarely uses it. |
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