MasterP said:
Bitey said:
MS didn’t ignore Apple on the Vista bashing commercials, they just didn’t have a come back….
One thing I find interesting that Apple gets away with that Microsoft never could, whenever Apple releases a new version of their OS they completely drop all updates and support for the previous OS. If you have a problem or a new bug is found you’re simply told to upgrade to the new OS and/or buy a new computer that supports the new OS. Compare this to Windows 2000 which was support through 2010 (9 years after replacement), Windows XP that is supported through 2014 (8 years after replacement) and Vista is supported through at least 2012 (3+ years after replacement). It would also have been hilarious if Microsoft had told every Windows Vista user that complained about speed issues to buy a new computer designed for Vista… hilariously expensive to settle the class action lawsuit, that is…
This isn’t right, Apple still supported tiger up until about 2 months ago. So technically they aren’t much different from MS in that regard, often times the reason Apple drops support for out of date OS is that they change so much in new OS’s that things no longer work, like for example from Tiger to Leopard, what was .Mac became MobileMe, .Mac was an internal system designed to work within Tiger, when they made the change to MobileMe, hey guess what *edited* in Tiger and .Mac started breaking and stopped working. So instead of beating the dead horse and continuously having to gift people free *edited*, they just stopped supporting it.
I’m with all of you though, you won’t catch me gaming on a Mac unless it’s just all I have at the time. For what I do as a career (editing, directing, sound work), I will always choose Mac, simply because the Final Cut Pro Suite of applications are fantastic and nothing released on Windows can touch the functionality or ease of use on it.
inb4 Adobe.. I used it and it actually is almost just like FCP, one thing that bugged me and they may have fixed it since then, but you can’t drag and drop blocks of footage like you can in FCP. So while they are similar I still just prefer FCP.
At the end of the day I hate Apple as a company for how they treat their employees, customers, and lies told daily.