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Posted by GMAN on 04/10/06 04:17
In article <v9bb32d6b1l9mt9j7a26ul1omi0bg75797@4ax.com>, Greg Melton <greg.melton@comcast.net> wrote:
>On Thu, 06 Apr 2006 16:57:06 -0700, Greg Melton
><greg.melton@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 6 Apr 2006 18:03:27 +0100, "Specs" <No.Spam@Thanks.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>"Richard Crowley" <rcrowley@xpr7t.net> wrote in message
>>>news:123adlo2ssuqda8@corp.supernews.com...
>>>> "Specs"wrote ...
>>>> > I don't think the 90/10 split follows for the creative
>>>> > industry. Macs dominate Audio and publishing fields.
>>>>
>>>> That is the popular myth. But you wouldn't get any support
>>>> from the people over on the audio newsgroups. Besides,
>>>> what difference does it make?
>>>>
>>>
>>>It doesn't make any difference whatsoever. I was giving you the benefit of
>>>my experience. I have _never_ seen a PC in a recording studio. I have
>>>visited hundreds in my time. I have lots of personal friends in the music
>>>business in the UK and have yet to see anything other than a Mac. Similarly
>>>I have seen the majority of print publishing firms still using Macs. Ad
>>>Agencies too invariably use Macs in _MY_ experience.
>>>
>>>Perhaps the people frequent the audio newsgroups are indicative of another
>>>sector i.e. the hobbyist that likes to spend time impressing each other how
>>>"pro" they are. Ring any bells Richard? My "real world" experience is to
>>>the contrary.
>>>
>>>> I was being generous. It is more like 95 vs. 5.
>>>>
>>>> > Without OS X who would Microsoft get their ideas from?
>>>> > The 90% PC market might just need OS X more than they know.
>>>>
>>>> You are really a master of the popular myth, aren't you?
>>>> Perhaps you should look up the Palo Alto Research Center
>>>> (Xerox) if you want to know where most of the windowing
>>>> and mouse-related user interface ideas were developed.
>>>> (Back when Jobs and Wozniak were fooling around in their
>>>> garage.)
>>>>
>>>
>>>I am perfectly aware of the history of the mouse based gui. So where is the
>>>Xerox GUI now? Surely nobody can deny that Apple developed it and
>>>popularised it along with Commodore. M$ has always been playing catchup to
>>>someone or other.
>>>
Dont leave out the Atari St and its GEM based os. Atari and Commodore had 512 to
4096 colors when the PC and Mac had either 4 color CGA and the mac was Black and
white.
>>>Vista bears little or no resemblance to OS X does it?
>>>
>>>> > Microsoft does appear to be having its fair share of problems with
>>>> > Vista at
>>>> > the moment which could open the door for Apple.
>>>> > http://minimsft.blogspot.com/2006/03/vista-2007-fire-leadership-now.html
>>>>
>>>> It has never worked for Apple before, but I guess you
>>>> still have hope! :-)
>>>>
>>>
>>>Anyone who believes in a free market should hope OS X and for that matter
>>>Linux continue to develop their market share because a M$ hegemony is not
>>>good for anyone. Its clearly not good for M$.
>>>
>>>For the record I have never owned anything by Apple not even an iPod. I am
>>>not an Apple fanboy quite the reverse actually. Credit where credit is due
>>>was the point I was making. :-)
>>>
>>
>>I do on-going shoots for AMD64 processors (for PC platforms of
>>course), and if you're interested in hearing what some pretty well
>>respected artists, producers and engineers have to say, check it out
>>for yourself. The work Mac never entered the picture.
>>
>>http://amd64live.com/
>>
>>Ciao,
>>Greg
>
>On review the word MAC did come up. Peter Frampton states he switched
>from MAC to Windows. Sorry!
>
>Greg
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