UnitedComputerUsers's Profile

Let's not be divisive based on operating system preference. Trying to impose characteristics on people based on what computer they use is, as we should be well aware in this day and age, is destructive, highly prejudicial and not beneficial to the computer industry as a whole. Ironically, it is pride and arrogance which resulted in Mac clutching a miraculous existence in a niche market while Microsoft holds the vast share. Marketing sadly far outweighs quality in terms of business success. That's how Ford cars became the most widely sold car in America. Someone else invented the car, he made it affordable and usable to the majority of the market place. It isn't a great car, but it works. Mac and Windows are both computer operating systems but they don't meet the same functional needs due in large part to Windows having the stronghold on proprietary applications so all the software needed to integrate computers and their tools within an office don't work together (such as email.) Macs are more often a additional tool and accompany a PC work station for all the Office applications. Good news, industry standards and standard compliant browsers such as Firefox are paving the way for web-based cross-platform applications. Proprietary applications will have to adapt with a industry compliant web-based application in order to sustain their place in the market. In truth, Macs survive because graphic applications made an existence possible for them to survive on their own. Operating Systems will become far more lean and much less important -- a return to a DOSesque existence as web applications require far less managing and resources. Marketing may have made Microsoft but it very well may be why it breaks it. Web technology has narrowed the margin for functionality between web-based and packaged application products while greatly reducing manufacturing, distribution and licensing costs. Wins all the way around. The user gains more universal interaction with products making them more accessible and user-friendly. The war between Macs and PCs will become as timely and significant as the war between the North and the South. It's all part of evolution and technology. The personal computers revolutionized the industry and now that little expirement called the internet has inadvertently become the revolutionary leader in the industry because it led the way to communication between the two AND everything else. The adaptable generalists are the evolutionary survivors while the specialists become extinct. Important consideration. Regardless of the arguable perception, Macs are here by pure luck and nothing else. The most important thing is making the machines work for the users. Hello, cell phone network providers, are you listening? The idea of utilizing proprietary means to secure ownership in the business-place for short-term profits often fail strategically in the long term because it imposes barriers that people will eventually find a way to work around. The miscalculation was overestimating the importance of the operating system, whereas the real opportunities were in the applications that would run the computers. ATMs are a success story of bypassing ownership to reap the benefits of creating a vast network of integrated banking systems initially to create a work-around to the proprietary limitations imposed by Colorado's laws against branch banking that lasted until the 90s. Cooperation and communication that unify are strategic winners!