5 Problems with Mac OS

I'd rather have a granny smith


Now before I get comments towards why I am wrong, or why I love Windows so much, this is the first of a 3 part blog, in which the following 2 parts will be 5 problems with Windows and Linux. This 3 part blog is to show how no OS is infallible.


1. Marketing


The marketing of Apple is insane. You know when it works when people recite ad slogans and taglines to you to justify their purchase. But what I disagree with is the lack of truth in the some of the claims, sometimes a redefinition of a technology, or a complete and utter porkie-pies. Take a look at the iCloud. I am a huge believer of Cloud computing as a lot are, but the point is to move everything local online. If you move an image online is file storage, but to have photos, photo editor, photo manager and albums or hosted online and work through a browser now we are talking. But iCloud doesn't do this in the slightest it just syncs you devices locally, so really it should be called iOver-Zealous-Online-Storage.



2. When You Have Apple, You Get Apple


I always say, their greatest strength is also their greatest weakest. By controlling and monitoring the software and hardware you can filter out the bad and give you the cream of the crop. But the off shot to this is that if Apple don't agree with something, you just have to follow suit. 85% of website are flash enabled and I can view and interact perfectly fine with Windows or Linux, but Apple will demand large amounts processing power. Many other limitations come in the form of no serious gaming, availability of software and formatting and encoding issues.



3. The Price Tag


Seriously, for the price of a Mac I can buy a car and insure it for a year. By experiment go to any custom PC/Laptop site and build a like for like machine and compare the prices. Results are always interesting.

4. The Infinite Loop

You are as much a genius, as I am a Genie's arse

Apple products work with Apple products with ease and consistently, but move outside that loop and hell can break lose. This leads to many conundrums, one being the solution to your problem will always be pay more money to Apple, and Apple will heavily mark up. Increasing storage, downloading content and upgrading hardware are all viable options in the PC market and can be done for small amounts of money. You lose this when you go Mac OS

5. No Patients with Patents


Well we all know what Apple are crying about from the news. "Google do this like us!", "Samsung do that like us!" Lets Sue. But look at it this way, Apple are not innovators. iOS was a rip off of Symbian, touch screens are just an extension of PDAs, and Mac OS is based on Linux. Apple took these and combined them make a great product. At yet will throw a tantrum when other companies move forward from their technology. I am not going to go into detail, but patents are there to move technology forward, not to claim protection on false individuality or play the patent exchange game with everyone else, this leads to a halt in the development of the industry and technology. If they truly believe what they say then they owe Motorola some money.

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