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Re:Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - Now Available (Delivery on A... by unalone on Monday August 24, 2009 @05:03PM (#783347)
Apple's marketing is an added feature. I get a lot of joy looking through their ad copy, in a way that I get out of very few marketing departments'.

I always wonder why Microsoft is so bad at advertising. They're not a stupid company. They create products that are nearly always good, if rarely (in my opinion) great. But they've never shown any sort of strength-of-focus and they make things that are ugly. I don't get it. In cases like this, it's easier to make something that's stark and simple than it is to make something cluttered and unappealing.

Re:Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - Now Available (Delivery on A... by wmeredith on Monday August 24, 2009 @05:22PM (#783404)
The difference you're seeing is design that's driven by an individual with a single strong voice versus a committee. For clarification, I'm saying that Steve Jobs designed this web page, but whoever did was someone with the authority and the balls to say, "no" over and over to many different people. Those Windows 7 pages reek of too many cooks in the kitchen and/or lack of leadership.
Re:Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - Now Available (Delivery on A... by snprbob86 on Monday August 24, 2009 @06:39PM (#783575)