'First to Do It' vs. 'First to Do It Right'

Re:'First to Do It' vs. 'First to Do It Right' by ynniv on Thursday June 17, 2010 @08:28PM (#1440893)

I wasn't happy with MacOS from 8-ish to pre-X, but what was the alternative? I tried liking Solaris and IRIX (didn't ever use NeXT), but there was just nothing out there. Win 95b was a brief glimpse into a future where Windows didn't suck, but they promptly sat on their laurels with 98 and then slapped their userbase around with ME. I tried BeOS a few times, but it never really had any software and the Web wasn't big enough at the time for a lack of software to be okay. I installed Rhapsody when it came out, and then tried to run OSX Developer Preview for a few months before I had to admit that it still wasn't quite baked. Now I couldn't be happier, but I still occasionally try desktop linux and other mobile phones.

I won't say that Apple's products are perfect - the pinnacle of what can be done - just currently the best.

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Re:'First to Do It' vs. 'First to Do It Right' by kenjackson on Thursday June 17, 2010 @09:27PM (#1441012)

You could have used NT. I was using NT 4.0 and it was pretty darn good. It killed, and I mean killed MacOS. I mean, the delta was way larger than probably the delta between even Vista and OSX. It was really big. The fact that you stayed on MacOS I think says enough.

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Re:'First to Do It' vs. 'First to Do It Right' by ynniv on Thursday June 17, 2010 @10:39PM (#1441143)

The fact that you stayed on MacOS I think says enough.

Wow, thats cold... I'm the zealot? There is some personal inertia in switching desktop platforms...

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Re:'First to Do It' vs. 'First to Do It Right' by kenjackson on Thursday June 17, 2010 @11:46PM (#1441270)

Fair enough. Although I would have stated that upfront (personal inertia). I was on the Amiga after it was no longer technologically the best platform. But I'd fully acknowledge that it was running on fumes at that point.

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