News - Apple persists with Windows bashing

[HW_90]

"more people are switching to apple from windows than ever before!"

yeah, and more people are getting computers with Windows on than ever before.

[Fraz]

I could organise a survey getting opinions on the brightest, sexiest individual on the planet, but if I published the result claiming it was me, without telling you that I rang the wife and asked, you might get a slightly distorted view of the facts from my "survey".

I dare you to run exactly that survey

[pauldarkside]

I wonder how many Mac users bought/upgraded to Windows 7 at launch?

If Apple are sooo great, how come their users still need to dual-boot?

[Cozwin]

slam apple as much as you want, i was a die hard windows fan boy for years and recently moved to mac and now i spend about 99% of my time on the mac due to it being amazing, stable, easy to use etc etc.

Only go onto windows on my pc to play games due to not having a good enough video card on my mac for top end games.... basically i don't need windows for anything other then to play some games, as there are plenty of decent mac games.

All ill say is don't slam it if you haven't tried it because you don't have a clue simple as. All i know is, ive had my mac 4 months now and havent had to reinstall or fix one thing yet, however in that time ive had to reinstall windows twice on pc and had to mess about due to windows 7 upgrade problem Microsoft still not fixed.

[Fraz]

and havent had to reinstall or fix one thing yet

Your time will come, believe me...

One of the most amusing problems I've had on my mac recently was when the firewall decided that it wasn't accepting anything anymore. I spent about 20 minutes trying to work out why neither my wireless or wired LAN was working, and in an act of desperation just turned off the firewall and then turned it back on again. That fixed it. Seems it'd just got in a funny state and needed to be restarted.

[superscaper]

slam apple as much as you want, i was a die hard windows fan boy for years and recently moved to mac and now i spend about 99% of my time on the mac due to it being amazing, stable, easy to use etc etc.

I think this is more about the really bad advertising rather than how good or bad the product itself is. I've personally not got anything against macs and would like to get one at some point but this type of advertising campaign is what puts me off. Unless what Apple were aiming for was to stab-my-own-eyes-out-cringiness then I think their whole campaign is a fail. It induces a distaste and cynicism of the company and for me creates a feeling of "anti-brand loyalty". That's not exclusive to Apple, any form of advertising through attacking the opposition rather than extolling specific virtues of what you're selling is really quite immature and revolting.

[mikerr]

The bit I dont get it they go on about transfering files, yeah like thats hard transfering from XP/Vista isnt it, compared to transfering to a completely different OS... Please..

Actually this is yet another "data loss" issue with OS X:

Windows:

Copy one same named directory "photos" over the top of another called "photos".

You'd expect them to merge contents, right?
Yes, thats exactly what happens on windows.

Mac:

Now try that on a mac,
and you LOSE THE CONTENTS of the original directory.

Yes, really
The copied directory totally replaces the old one, without any real warning.

[gamer91]

as far as I am aware, MS dont send the lawyers in, should your zune blow up and you have the audacity to ask for a refund.


(unlike a certain "number one in customer satisfaction" rival).

[Biscuit]

slam apple as much as you want, i was a die hard windows fan boy for years and recently moved to mac and now i spend about 99% of my time on the mac due to it being amazing, stable, easy to use etc etc.

Only go onto windows on my pc to play games due to not having a good enough video card on my mac for top end games.... basically i don't need windows for anything other then to play some games, as there are plenty of decent mac games.

All ill say is don't slam it if you haven't tried it because you don't have a clue simple as. All i know is, ive had my mac 4 months now and havent had to reinstall or fix one thing yet, however in that time ive had to reinstall windows twice on pc and had to mess about due to windows 7 upgrade problem Microsoft still not fixed.

Iv been using both + linux for like 2 years now... so il slam them and it as much as i want. MAC OSX does get crap + slow after a while just the same as windows so just wait for it.