And take a look at Finder.  This, the central means of finding content on your computer, doesn’t exhibit the organizational knowledge that is taught to junior-high-school students.  In other words, how to sort things hierarchically.  You put FOLDERS AT THE TOP of lists of items.  Every other browser on the planet gets this.

And hey, when you search for something on your Mac, Spotlight will show you everything that matches the search terms… but it doesn’t show you WHERE those items are.  It just shows you a big list of (often identically named) hits, which could be anywhere on your computer.  Even if you know that what you’re looking for isn’t on a particular drive, that won’t help you skim through the list of search results.  You’ll have to click on every single hit, one at a time, and examine its properties to see where it is.  Yes, that’s elegant.

Windows 95? What’s the problem? The vague Microsoft bashing is played out. From the mid ’90s on, you know what happened when you plugged a new printer into a Windows machine? It detected it and prompted you for the appropriate drivers. You know what happened when you plugged a new printer into a Mac, until about two years ago? NOTHING. It didn’t detect it, didn’t ask what you wanted to do, nothing. You just had a non-functioning peripheral plugged in.

Now Microsoft has, after advancing GUIs more than anyone else through the ’90s, woefully lost its way as well.  We’ll see if it can mount a comeback.  And Apple has advanced touch UIs more than anyone else ever has.  But it has neglected its computer OS for many years, and unfortunately there’s little hope of that being addressed now that Apple has no interest in real computers.

I’m perplexed about something else, though.  Your math:
“I have purchased four automobiles over the years. First a 1960 Ford Mustang, a 1985 Toyota 4Runner, a 1990 Landcruiser, a 1996 Chevy Tahoe, a 2006 Chevy 2500HD crew cab and a 2006 Mercedes C55.”

Maybe I’m using the metric system, but I count six there.

And take a look at Finder.  This, the central means of finding content on your computer, doesn’t exhibit the organizational knowledge that is taught to junior-high-school students.  In other words, how to sort things hierarchically.  You put FOLDERS AT THE TOP of lists of items.  Every other browser on the planet gets this.

And hey, when you search for something on your Mac, Spotlight will show you everything that matches the search terms… but it doesn’t show you WHERE those items are.  It just shows you a big list of (often identically named) hits, which could be anywhere on your computer.  Even if you know that what you’re looking for isn’t on a particular drive, that won’t help you skim through the list of search results.  You’ll have to click on every single hit, one at a time, and examine its properties to see where it is.  Yes, that’s elegant.

Windows 95? What’s the problem? The vague Microsoft bashing is played out. From the mid ’90s on, you know what happened when you plugged a new printer into a Windows machine? It detected it and prompted you for the appropriate drivers. You know what happened when you plugged a new printer into a Mac, until about two years ago? NOTHING. It didn’t detect it, didn’t ask what you wanted to do, nothing. You just had a non-functioning peripheral plugged in.

Now Microsoft has, after advancing GUIs more than anyone else through the ’90s, woefully lost its way as well.  We’ll see if it can mount a comeback.  And Apple has advanced touch UIs more than anyone else ever has.  But it has neglected its computer OS for many years, and unfortunately there’s little hope of that being addressed now that Apple has no interest in real computers.

I’m perplexed about something else, though.  Your math:
“I have purchased four automobiles over the years. First a 1960 Ford Mustang, a 1985 Toyota 4Runner, a 1990 Landcruiser, a 1996 Chevy Tahoe, a 2006 Chevy 2500HD crew cab and a 2006 Mercedes C55.”

Maybe I’m using the metric system, but I count six there.

Speaking of things you know nothing about…

Speaking of things you know nothing about…

What a surprise.

Looks like someone’s denying you access to a Shift key. Get a big-boy keyboard next time, and you can make big-boy letters!

or more likely (and probably accurately), they were laying the groundwork for the success of iTunes (and the iPod, and OSX and the iPhone and iPad) right when he arrived (or if you dig deeper, even before he arrived).

a bit of correction… it wasn’t because of MS’s benevolent nature that cash was infused into Apple when it was hurting, it was due to MS agreeing to purchase $150M of Apple shares and continue to produce Office for Mac as an out-of-court settlement, for lifting QuickTime code.

Notice something?

With help from Microsoft, Jobs was finally able to get the company back on track. Jobs eventually scrapped the original Mac OS in favor of a modified version of NeXT with an updated UI and new eye candy which became OS X. Soon after, the ipod was released, and the rest is history…

Apple has always been closed and tightly controlled – when Jobs returned he made it even moreso. Does the term ‘walled garden’ ring a bell?

The reason Apple almost went bankrupt had more to do with poor management than anything esle. Well that and a lack of innovation…

Notice something?

Samsung basically says, “Get this phone and its stylus and miraculously you’ll be dancing in the streets for no apparent reason other than the fact that IT HAS A FRICKIN’ STYLUS”.   

Lame.  

Good luck in school. You’ll need it.