“A standard is supposed to be what everyone agrees on, but getting people to agree on anything isn
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I wish a had 1000 of junk applications available too….NOT! More applications does not equal more useful applications!
I realy need a spell/grammer checker in this little feedback box… sorry for the crappy Engrish!
hey iNewt– if you use Safari, all you need to do is highlight the word you can’t spell and then right click or control click. It will provide spelling suggestions.
I think you are over reacting just a bit. The article is not even about Apple. It just made one reference to the fact that there are more applications available for the PC than for the Mac. That is true, though meaningless in itself. In the end, standards are just those devices, processes, materials etc, that a perponderance of any population decide to use. It says nothing about quality, usability, performance or anything that is truly meaningfull. I don’t see any value in this article.
There is one area that the Mac is really hurting in…full-fledged, robust, multi-user accounting software with all the bells/whistles. All you have are the lower end, personal/small business packages.
Had a manufacturer that was more then willing to switch everything over to Macs (desktops/servers) but couldn’t get an accounting package that as robust as they were used to. All were either Windows or Linux.
So, the Mac lost out. 🙁
Sheesh…..have you ever checked into the quality of some of those applications on PC? Some of them are horrible! Ugggh…and they CHARGE for this crap?
Help these people!
I absolutely love some of the high quality app’s the shareware people put out on OSX and they do a better job than some of the PC app’s out there. It amazes me to no end.
For what it’s worth, AutoCAD for Mac OS X petition here:
http://www.architosh.com/news/2002-06/2002c-0615-acadx-pet1.phtml
The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from!
My charting programs don’t run on macs. I need lots of monitors. VPC isn’t available for g5’s yet (I guess). There could be 36,000 mac apps and it wouldn’t help me. So in fact a mac cannot do everything a pc can everytime. Does it matter? Naw, I don’t get those virus things anyway and use Firefox.
Windows sufferers might have a crutch, but mac devotees are equipped with cane and walker, always willing to wave one and lean on the other when their ox is gored, even when just imagined.
> So in fact a mac cannot do everything a pc can everytime.
Well neither can a PC run UNIX apps well if it’s OS is from Microsoft, which is pretty limiting in a lot of ways, since there’s tons of specialized software that only runs on UNIX os’s, especially programming-related and server-related stuff. Cygwin and such emulators try to fill this gap, but if you rely on them long enough you’re going to hit a showstopper snag, especially if you use their X windows support.
So that’s one thing Macs can do that Windows PC’s can’t, as well.
George:
I have been exposed to two of those “full-fledged, robust, multi-user accounting software with all the bells/whistles” packages. Absolute crap. Actually, they were fine for the accountants (go figure) but for everyone else (counter sales, sales staff, maintenance, etc.) they were unusable. They needed to do stuff their way, and then transfer it over to the “full-fledged, robust, multi-user accounting software with all the bells/whistles” accounting package at the end of the period.
Very compelling.
Which is not to say that someone shouldn’t write a proper “full-fledged, robust, multi-user accounting software with all the bells/whistles” package for the Mac. I think it would sell like hotcakes.
Mike
I love this quote..”…that generally makes crossing the road an anxious moment because you don�t know which way to look first,” Ed Sperling writes..”
You know, when I was growing up, you looked BOTH WAYS before crossing…and it didn’t matter which direction you chose first.
Moron.
still no autocad on mac though…even with the petition it looks like autodesk doesn’t care.
“Had a manufacturer that was more then willing to switch everything over to Macs (desktops/servers) but couldn’t get an accounting package that as robust as they were used to. All were either Windows or Linux.”
Linux? Accounting?
I’m curious, what package did they end up choosing?
“My charting programs don’t run on macs. I need lots of monitors.”
I’m a bit confused, Joe. By “monitors”, I assume you mean lots of little devices which monitor things and not “displays.” The reason I bring it up is just that I know the Mac supports as many displays as you can fit graphics cards. I’ve run Macs with four displays (Hey, I had a bunch of leftover graphics cards) just fine. I know Windows will handle multiple displays, too, as long as you don’t remove Internet Explorer from the Operating System… :^)
I agree, though, that one of those areas where third-party application support for Macintosh sucks is with external hardware devices.
Or you could use Vectorworks.
once again,
AuotCAD is the MS of the CAD world.
absolutely.
“best in class” applications”…including Microsoft Office 2004 (Mac, baybee)!
Question: what do MOST human beings do with their computers?
Answer: surf the web, word processing and spreadsheets.
Fact.
And any Mac can do these tasks. Therefore…non-issue. Let it die already.
That’s AutoCAD.
I used Vectorworks for awhile. I switched to ArchiCAD.
Vectorworks does “BIM” light. It freaked me out when
modeling a building and when switching from 2d to 3d
and then back, Vectorworks moved walls on me. Now,
if you are in the trade and this happens and you don’t
catch it or if you have to constantly spend your time
making sure that walls and such are staying put…
I called Vectorworks and they in no way could help. So,
they are copying ArchiCAD, or it sure looks like it, so it
is probably getting better.
But, it is for sure, ArchiCAD is the Mac of the CAD world
and AutoCAD is the MS Office, other than they don’t
have a Mac version.
Do yourself a huge favor, purchase and learn ArchiCAD.
You have no idea until you do. And you will be using a
“BIM” based application in the future. AutoDesk is fervently
trying to incorporate it in to AutoCAD.
I love this quote..”…that generally makes crossing the road an anxious moment because you don�t know which way to look first,” Ed Sperling writes..”
You know, when I was growing up, you looked BOTH WAYS before crossing…and it didn’t matter which direction you chose first.
Moron.
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Uhh.. you look left first. Unless you’re English, in which case.. right. Note the word FIRST in the quote.
It’s really only relevant if you could get a dollar for every application on a particular platform.
Other than the main applications most people need for their daily surfing, resumes and entertainment, why else do you need so many software applications? Choice?
Choice is fine, but if the choice itself is crap, what’s the point? “Hmmm… I’ll have that fine looking black piece of poo there.”
Companies talk of “Best of Breed” applications, but still choose to conduct most business using a 2ghz celeron PC running M$ software.
I suggested some days ago that we need to organize a whip-round to buy Joe a Mac!
I still suggest this.
A ‘Buy Joe McConnell a Mac’ PayPal account at ‘buy-joe-mcconnell-a-mac.com’.
My contribution to this endevour, is the creation of this idea. It has a retail value of $10US
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The guy’s porn must require Internet Explorer. FUD, FUD, FUD
God not this old chesnut again!
I though the ‘there are no applications for the mac’ died with OS 8.
Bloody hell – this would be funny if it wasn’t so bloody old history!
MESSAGE FOR WINDOWS USERS – GET A MAC AND USE THE BEST SOFTWARE IN THE WORLD!!
I think the problem that most people have with software apps is that most developers will just develop them for the PC environment by default since that is what 95% of businesses use. Microsoft “created” the .net “standard” for developers to write apps for buinesses using PCs.
Re: spell checking
Enable Edit->Spelling->Check Spelling as You Type and possibly misspelled words will be underlined when you type them. Ctrl-<click> on any of ’em to pop up a menu with suggested corrections (or No Guesses Found), as someone already mentioned.
Also, tapping the Esc key while typing brings up a menu of choices matching the current word up to that point.