The Amazon Kindle started the paperless book (with out eye burning screen). What is the Kindle? An Electronic book reader. And a great job they did too. Being able to download your books with out having to connect your Kindle to your PC was a great selling point. Electronic ink makes for a very comfortable read.
Now Apple has come out with there iPad. Some call it the iPhone on steroids. Others are saying it is the death of the Kindle. What is the iPad? The iPad is an "ultra mobile PC". Taking mobile devices to new levels, Apple had started the next chapter of computers.
So if your comparing the Kindle to the iPad, your comparing a book reader to a PC. Its like comparing a book to your home theater system. One has a couple of uses, the other has many!
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Monday, January 4, 2010
The OS War
I have been doing a fair bit of research lately that has caused me to look at many things differently regarding MS, Mac, and GNU-Linux. I came to this.
When looking at the different operating systems on and off the market today, its not really "which one is better?" because there all great. The question becomes, "What is your knowledge "level" so to say with a computer?".
Mac OSX and Snow Leopard - Level 0-1
Built from the ground up with hardware specifically designed to "Just Work" Apple builds there computers and there operating system.
Microsoft Windows - Level 1-2
Built for a bit more customization of your systems hardware, "slowly going away now" but is only an operating system designed to run just about any hardware. And don't forget most games on the market are ported for this operating system.
GNU-Linux Level 3>
Granted being made easier and easier to use with every release of a distribution. Allowing the user "complete" if not maximum control over there system.
SIDE NOTE---
Many people “Bash” these operating system's labeling them as crap, hard to use, not user friendly, etc...
The simple truth is that these people have a few things working against them
A. Inability to accept a new idea or way of doing things
B. Indoctrination
C. If it dose not work the same way as what there use to then it is crap.
Ok these are all the same but do you get the point?
With any operating system there is a learning curve involved and one must understand when switching over to "something different" that "hey, this was written by someone else and may work differently then what I am use to!". If you see advertisements saying “Intuitive” or something like that, it is only a personal opinion rather then a selling point.
The Operating System Wars are NOT carried out by company's like Apple Inc. or Microsoft Inc. Infact the war is fought by the user's of computers like you and me. If fact Steve Jobs and Bill Gates have a working relationship. They have worked together on there various projects together for some time. Anybody wonder why iTunes is available for download on a PC and Microsoft Office is available for Mac's?
To wrap this up the OS wars is just history repeating it's self yet again. We as people did the same thing to black folk and women. Just let it go. Use what your comfortable with and dont hate just because your neighbor dose things “differently”.
More so today that the war has spread to the phone market now with Windows Mobile, Apple iPhone and the various Linux phones on the market. The phone market in my opinion has really heated up the war! But what do you think. What are your opinions?
When looking at the different operating systems on and off the market today, its not really "which one is better?" because there all great. The question becomes, "What is your knowledge "level" so to say with a computer?".
Mac OSX and Snow Leopard - Level 0-1
Built from the ground up with hardware specifically designed to "Just Work" Apple builds there computers and there operating system.
Microsoft Windows - Level 1-2
Built for a bit more customization of your systems hardware, "slowly going away now" but is only an operating system designed to run just about any hardware. And don't forget most games on the market are ported for this operating system.
GNU-Linux Level 3>
Granted being made easier and easier to use with every release of a distribution. Allowing the user "complete" if not maximum control over there system.
SIDE NOTE---
Many people “Bash” these operating system's labeling them as crap, hard to use, not user friendly, etc...
The simple truth is that these people have a few things working against them
A. Inability to accept a new idea or way of doing things
B. Indoctrination
C. If it dose not work the same way as what there use to then it is crap.
Ok these are all the same but do you get the point?
With any operating system there is a learning curve involved and one must understand when switching over to "something different" that "hey, this was written by someone else and may work differently then what I am use to!". If you see advertisements saying “Intuitive” or something like that, it is only a personal opinion rather then a selling point.
The Operating System Wars are NOT carried out by company's like Apple Inc. or Microsoft Inc. Infact the war is fought by the user's of computers like you and me. If fact Steve Jobs and Bill Gates have a working relationship. They have worked together on there various projects together for some time. Anybody wonder why iTunes is available for download on a PC and Microsoft Office is available for Mac's?
To wrap this up the OS wars is just history repeating it's self yet again. We as people did the same thing to black folk and women. Just let it go. Use what your comfortable with and dont hate just because your neighbor dose things “differently”.
More so today that the war has spread to the phone market now with Windows Mobile, Apple iPhone and the various Linux phones on the market. The phone market in my opinion has really heated up the war! But what do you think. What are your opinions?
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