Mac = Windows?

According to mac "inventor"

[Macro]

Mac inventor says [guardian.co.uk] Apple Macs like Windows PCs :

he says that there is "only a little difference" between using a Windows machine and a Macintosh

Ouch!

To all you guys who normally come to this part of webmasterworld:

Welcome to Windows :)

[bcolflesh]

It's interesting to read an interview from a Mac "icon" consisting of logical answers and a dash of humility - his Humane Interface idea sounds really interesting.

[photon]

There's only "a little difference" in the DNA of humans and apes. ;)

Less than 4% I believe...

[Macro]

Now, now, I've called Mac users a lot of things... but, to compare them to apes is just not fair ;)

apes have feelings you know. he he

[mivox]

Of course there's not much difference. Windows has been aping the Mac OS since it came out. ;)

But hey, bloatware has become increasingly endemic, on the Mac platform as well. Machine performance increases, and software performance doesn't, because code magically expands to fill the processing power available.

Personally, I was horrified to see how much room OSX took up when I installed it on a G3 laptop... I still think it could be done more efficiently (not that I know a damn thing about coding), but I got a lot less horrified when I heard how much HD space WinXP took up. hehehe

[Russ49Checkmate]

I've recently married and my wife was a Windoze user. 3 months of OS 9.0.4 and her Gateway has been collecting dust ever since.

Bottom line for her was stability and ease of updating. My God, I watched and laughed as she tried to reinstall her network software ... weeks she worked at it through hundreds of system crashes.

[timster]

Yep, it's a weird world where Mac users brag that their OS has a superior CLI. (But you know, BASH is way better than DOS.)

[coolmacguy]

Raskin is by far NOT the "mac inventor" though that misguided label is often applied to him because of his ego. He wasn't even at Apple when the first Mac was unveiled. He had left 3 years before that. And the contributions he made while he was there don't even represent a large part of the effort involved in creating the Mac. Why this misconception still lingers I'll never understand.

In fact, Raskin has had very little in common with Apple and has openly opposed them since he left. He typically publishes an article every few months bashing Apple and saying they have it all wrong and how they need to do it his way to get it right. It's a neverending power trip.