Re: Mac shipments up 12% [Was: focus!]
- From: Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>
- To: Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <uraeus linuxrising org>
- Cc: Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org>, desktop-devel-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: Mac shipments up 12% [Was: focus!]
- Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 15:39:03 +0100
Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller wrote:
I am sure that among GNOME and
GNU/Linux users we will find many people who thought things like OS/2,
Amiga OS and BeOS was the next big thing back in the day based on the
technical qualities of said systems. When I hear people singing MacOS X
praises today it seems to me its using the same tune as the praises sung
to those operating systems of yesteryear.
True up to a point, although MacOS in its various (and sometimes more
usable than current) guises has been around since before any of those,
and although you can't necessarily say it's "outlived" OS/2, BeOS,
Workbench or GEM[1], it's certainly left them eating considerable dust,
in terms of widespread adoption.
Cheeri,
Calum.
[1] If you believe that a good OS never dies, it just stops being
developed...
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CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland
mailto:calum benson sun com Java Desktop System Group
http://ie.sun.com +353 1 819 9771
Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems
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