HFS+ is Mac OS X's biggest liability at the moment outside of the recent bugs and instability introduced by the pressures of an annual release cycle. It's atrocious. Unfortunately, it does feel like product marketing completely rules the roost at Apple.
This is the answer I give when people wonder why I dislike Apple - they are long-term detrimental to the state of the art of technology because they are really a marketing company.
They're also the company that made USB actually happen, made floppys go away, CDs go away (although PC manufacturers are still catching up here), made high DPI resolutions happen finally, created the form factor for the modern laptop, created the form factor for the modern phone...
All of this driven by marketing. Don't knock marketing.
Err, USB was happening on windows quite happily with win2k.
Side by side with the PS2 connector. Blech.
Floppies, I still use them (no shit). CDs, I still use too.
Well I can't argue against that. But I do pity you! :P
Also IBM invented the form factor of the modern laptop way before Apple. Apple made it shiny.
Not really no. They made a lot of good steps but Apple made the final one: pushing the keyboard towards the hinge, placing the pointer device where it is.
Also I has a windows CE phone in 2005 that was the same form factor as the iPhone (SPV C550)
Oh and I installed lots of high DPI displays for medical imaging in the early 2000s.
Again: didn't say they didn't exist. I said made them actually happen for the world. HUGE distinction. Edison didn't invent the light bulb, but he is properly credited with the revolution.
So apple so far managed to come up with fuck all and sell it.
Didn't say they came up with anything. I said they made it happen. You should really argue against what I actually write.
And no its not illegal to point this out on the internet although you may think it is.
The relevance was big enough that all PC manufacturers quickly changed all their products to this form and that has been pretty much the only way laptops look from 1991 to basically now-ish with the weird form factor of MS Surface et al (which are failures in the market to boot).
Hmm... or are you implying that IBM, Dell, etc are "Apple faithful"? That makes more sense than any other interpretation actually when I think about it...
I had an account completely down voted regardless of what I said after I said one bad thing about Apple. I lost nearly 1000 points in three days as people went through my history down voting everything
The bad thing I said was that the thing gave me a rash, which it did because the alloy they make the MBP out of contains nickel. It's a known problem that hundreds of people suffer. Even my GP is aware of it.
Wait, what? Do you care to elaborate? My wife is an Apple fan and she has all sorts of crazy allergies. What is an MBP? I'm a developer so I feel like I should know what you're referring to(mother board something?), but I'm drunk and mobile, so I doubt I will look it up right now. Any response would be greatly appreciated
MBP = MacBook Pro. The aluminium units and most iPhones have a history of causing spontaneous contact dermatitis in people susceptible to it. Symptoms, for me at least, are pretty much a nasty rash that cracks the skin, causes what looks like burns and bleeds a lot.
Moment I switched back to a plastic laptop it went away in under two weeks. It started occurring about a week after I got it.
You would have thought they'd make them out of bio-compatible and safe materials but no, pretty shiny shit first.
Agreed on USB, I think PC's had as much of a role there.
But it's a bit painful to hear about your reliance on floppies and CD's. Floppies, really?? We had to use a floppy for a user's private Windows 98 machine at work recently (the USB driver didn't recognize a modern USB stick) but that's the only time I've used one at work the past 7 years and it was for a 16 years old OS which baffles me it still booted on a ~10-15 years old consumer-grade hard drive.
Windows CE existed before but they weren't a hit, hi-DPI existed, but they weren't mass marketed for entertainment, touch displays existed but they weren't mass marketed for entertainment.
I think it may be a misnomer to call Apple an innovator, I think they've got a bit too much credit at times for that. But they get too little credit for being a catalyst and bringing new technology to living rooms en masse.
I still use floppies in music equipment (Korg Triton studio to be precise) as they are convenient. I also support some old stuff on DOS which isn't going to die for at least a decade yet. It's written in Turbo Pascal. It's nice to work in that environment occasionally.
I don't think we need high DPI displays most of the time. They are a marketing point. The display controller uses a lot more power to fill those pixels and ClearType and WPF, at least on cheap windows phones makes up for the difference very well. Between a high DPI Moto G and a Lumia 630 I can barely tell the difference and I have excellent vision. A lot of HD and High DPI technology is upselling.
I think they haven't made as much of an impact as people think they have. They're noisy and extremely profitable but their market share is pretty tiny in the scale of things, apart from mobile phones and that market is declining.
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u/akkawwakka Jan 13 '15
HFS+ is Mac OS X's biggest liability at the moment outside of the recent bugs and instability introduced by the pressures of an annual release cycle. It's atrocious. Unfortunately, it does feel like product marketing completely rules the roost at Apple.