Support the Blog — Buy This Book!
For Kindle and with free ePub version. Only $9.49 Great reading.
Here is what Gary Shapiro CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) said: Dvorak's writing sings with insight and clarity. Whether or not you agree with John's views, he will get you thinking and is never boring. These essays are worth the read!
Put this ad on your blog!
Syndicate
Subscribe to Main Blog feed here:
Subscribe to Comments too (below):
Junk Email Filter
Its time to buy stock in Apple because in a subject/course where students are REQUIRED to use mac computers, all the students have mac computers??
Sorry, but I just can’t see the link.
They are in college. When I was in college 20 years ago, almost every computer on campus, including mine, was a Mac. If I were going to college today, I would consider long and hard on getting a Mac (but wouldn’t) just because it is likely that most of the computer systems are geared towards Macs. However, once you get out of college and into the business world, you will find far, far fewer Macs.
That’s Ganett Auditorium in the Mizzou J-school. I know this because I have class in there twice a week.
So here’s how it goes.
Step 1. Apple gives J-school lot’s of free/dirt cheap stuff for their labs.
Step 2. Apple then requests the J-school maintain very high Mac sales.
Step 3. J-school publishes this to incoming freshmen:
http://tinyurl.com/2bawxa
They tell everyone that if they don’t buy Mac, some of the software they’ll need will not work.
I caught on that this was a FUD/sales pitch, bought a Dell, and had the joy of explaining to nontechnical froshies that 1. iLife sucks and 2. you can in fact run Adobe CS3 on Windows.
Oh boy, here come the windows and mac fanboys.
How about buying a computer that makes you happy. Run friggin Windows, OS X, Linux, DOS, OS/2 Warp etc… This blog can’t go for a week without someone else stirring stirring up the operating system fanboys.
Lets sum it up for both sides:
OS X fanboys – I don’t get viruses and and Steve Jobs is l337.
Windows fanboys – Macs suck and are overpriced.
If this is a university class, it must be in a non-technical subject.
As soon as you step out of email, photo editing and playing music… you have basically left the Mac universe.
The major clue….waaaay too many cute girls for this to have anything to do with engineering.
My guess…
“Bring your computer so we can setup your email accounts and answer any questions about that.
Amusing picture. To address some of the comments, here I go.
I’m a CST (comp sys) student and a developer at a Canadian college. I’ve been working with Windows machines for most of my life, and have only recently got a Mac.
Using a Mac, you get one major advantage. You distance yourself from Microsoft. Mac OS X, for me anyways, increases productivity and is more stable for development.
IMHO, if you don’t want to use Windows, use Linux. A lot less overhead and does a lot better.
And the reason you don’t see Mac’s in the ‘real-world’ isn’t because it isn’t a good product / OS, it’s because executives don’t know anything that isn’t Microsoft. If it isn’t Windows or MS Office, executives won’t touch it. One of the big reasons most companies would run a web server using the Windows OS (there is a good use of resources. Lets run a GUI on a machine which solely serves web pages).
And the Mac is making an entrance into the business world. Starting with many IT departments (as usual).
Cheers,
Brian
P.S. not a Mac fanboy. Just a Windows hater.
Notice in the audience that there are 3 empty seats. These are the Windows users that are back in the dorm applying software security updates, doing the daily anti-virus updates, running spybot software, trying to remove Sony root kit bullshit or searching for driver updates.
I agree with #6, not a fanboy – just an MS hater.
Yes, Americans – keep insisting your kids use Apples in school. When they get out, they won’t be prepared for the Windows-based business world of North America, so their jobs will get outsourced to Mumbai, India.
Meanwhile, Walmart’s hiring, so you can help China get ahead, too…
That guy is yellow, with the pen and piece of paper, is my personal hero.
As for Mumbai (#8) When they get out, they won’t be prepared for the Windows-based business world of North America, so their jobs will get outsourced to Mumbai, India.
Yes, you are right, because its SOOOOO hard to learn Windows after using a Mac…. frankly, if you can’t figure Windows or Mac out, your job is probably better off in Mumbai where people will at least make the effort.
The reason to buy a Apple laptop:
– It’s not the OS
– It’s not the design
– It’s not the coolness factor
– It’s simply that you know what you gonna get!
If I would want to buy a Windows laptop there is a myriad of different models out there, and I wouldn’t even know how to start to compare them.
Maybe at first you’ll try to find a ‘good’ manufacturer, but that’s already hard, because for every good review you will certainly find a few complains.
Most people will tell you that you can’t go wrong with a certain model of a certain manufacturer, but you’ll soon find out that they are just recommending one of the most expensive brands and models available.
The Mac has the advantage of a small clean product lineup from which it’s easy to choose the right model for you. It saves you lots of time and headaches and you know that the quality will be alright.
It’s not even more expensive than a Windows laptop, because if you buy one of those you most likely will end up buying an over the top model just to give yourself the feeling that you didn’t buy crap.
I am back at school after a 20 year break. I use an apple PB G4 12″ for size, weight, and battery lifetime. It has caused some problems to others in the classes.
All the kids must have rich parents to afford MacBook Pro’s! I dont’ think I saw a MacBook in the bunch?? Would I want to give my kid a $2000 laptop to drag around everywhere??
Some people made good pratical points about these students going into business world with Mac’s?
Current Target price for Apple stock is $165. Somebody knows somethin’.
Somebody knows that Steve Jobs has the best sales pitch going.
I have been using Window’s since 3.1. During a recent move, I used my friend’s mac for a month. Everthing thing about it was uncomfortable, hated the GUI.
Maybe if I started with it in the begining when it had a black & white display. After a month I has happy to be back to Vista.
ps: I also run Linux, but prefer Windows. As to the kids in the class photo, its the cool factor and at that age do you really want to be the rebel? Remember the mac ad campaign “Think Different” now it’s “Be The Same”.
#10:
I’d hate to see you try and buy a car… or a house… or anything that costs more than a couple hundred dollars.
Actually, I take that back, I think it might be a little amusing.
Got to remember some of these college kids will be going out into business world and eventually will be making IT purchasing decisions for their company. I would even venture to say some will be buying Macs for their company. Especially if M$ continues to screw the corporate world with its costly and draconian licensing schemes.
I wonder whether any of those Macs are running Linux…
it’s because executives don’t know anything that isn’t Microsoft. If it isn’t Windows or MS Office, executives won’t touch it. One of the big reasons most companies would run a web server using the Windows OS
Don’t many large business run their web servers on Linux boxes running Apache? And refer to my comment #17 to see how these attitudes could be changing.
#18 probably not many. No reason to run Linux when OSX is as good or better then Linux. The only reason to run Linux is to run a quality OS on PC priced gear.
#20 A PC with an Apple on the outside is still a PC.
#17 – Making IT decisions?
These are journalism students.
If in front of the camera, they need to know how to read coherently.
If behind the desk, they need to know how to write and (specially if working at Fox) make stuff up, distort reality and spew the corporate line.
Very few will make IT decisions… that’s what engineering students are going to be doing… and guess what they would rather use… hint… Mac comes in last.
Mac = PC with training wheels.
So, can I run OS X on my Dell? No? Why not? How about unlocking my iPhone? Tell me again what a brick is? How about running anything other than iTunes on my iPod? No? Isn’t this monopolistic behavior? Come to think of it, hasn’t Apple always behaved this way?
It’s the same load of crap I had to put up with back when IBM came out with Microchannel. There were idiots touting the great subjective benefits of that platform, too. I refuse to use a locked platform. Even M$ behaves less monopolistic that this these days.
I didn’t fall for it last time and I’m not falling for it this time either. When I buy a computer, I expect to own it.
Steve Jobs is God. When college students conform to a standard because they are a loyal to a single product then the future of America is in disastrous hands. Next thing you’ll have is Steve Jobs face on t-shirts a la Che Gueverra.
#6
Disagree. IMO, you it is far more difficult to achieve the same level of corporate control with a Macs than with Windows. It is far easier on Windows to ensure that everyone has virus scanners, firewalls, prevent users from installing rogue applications, ensure everyone is using the same applications, make sure that patches are being done on the OS and applications etc. In short, in terms of management tools, Windows has far more available and has far more functionality baked in for the corporate environment. Hell, even remote connectivity to a Mac is a chore compared to Windows which has the technology built-in.
#9
Uh, yeah. I occasionally have to test things on a Mac and it is a pain to figure out how to do what I want with their Mickey Mouse interface. Just figuring out what application you are in if all of its MDI windows are minimized can be pain.
I occasionally have to test things on a Mac and it is a pain to figure out how to do what I want with their Mickey Mouse interface.
So Mickey Mouse that M$ tried to copy it for Vista. You people make me laugh.
Apple has pandered to the schools for many years now. Thanks to the guy that knows a girl in the class, we know it’s a journalism class. As Dvorak has pointed out in the past, “With 90 percent of the mainstream writers being Mac users, what would you expect?”.
#27 and we’re seeing XP users running to Vista in droves, right?
Microsoft will have to make Vista less Mac like if it wants to succeed. What were they thinking? Home users buy Macs, and companies buy PCs, Vista is too much Mac like to be respected in the corporate world.
You all missed the point. Buy Apple stock, but wait a little bit for a correction, because you just missed the 300-times-your-investment run up over the past year.
#29, #30 Vista is not succeeding because of the interface, Vista is failing because, 1) Price, 2) incompatibility with software and hardware, 3) Ever present DRM, WGA and other M$ niceties.