At work, at least among the IT staff, I’m known as one of two Apple fiends. I’ve developed this reputation mostly because I own a Mac and I know how to use it. Most of the rest of the IT Staff- at least the members that have been around a while – have the 90s attitude towards Apple thinking it’s just a crappy cute competitor to PC. Of course since the advent of OS X in 2001 and the comeback of Steve Jobs, Apple has changed considerably.<\/p>\n
So, realizing the changes and enjoying the usability of OS X, I’ve been accused of being a fanboy. While this may have been true briefly at various points, I wouldn’t say that it is true in general. I think OS X’s greatest virtue is its Unix base. Before various linux geeks I know explode, I do think linux and in particular Ubuntu is awesome, but it still lacks the polish and compatibility of OS X. As much as I want to support open source, there are still some closed source apps I consider irreplaceable, at least for now.<\/p>\n
In general my perceived Apply fanboyism comes down to think Unix is cool and that OS X blends that with compatibility that other *nxs don’t have. I’m not here to start one of those Internet thread holy wars, but, as usual, I just want people to be reasonable and admit there are some good features to the Mac platform. There are certainly some bad ones too, and I won’t dispute that: vendor lock-in, lack of hardware compatibility, and required kool-aid drinking are serious issues. So, coming from your local Mac expert, be reasonable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
At work, at least among the IT staff, I’m known as one of two Apple fiends. I’ve developed this reputation mostly because I own a Mac and I know how […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,46,32],"tags":[79,65,67,66],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-it","category-microsoft","tag-it","tag-mac","tag-os-war","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.danwpratt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.danwpratt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.danwpratt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.danwpratt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.danwpratt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.danwpratt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84,"href":"http:\/\/www.danwpratt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/84"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.danwpratt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.danwpratt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.danwpratt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}