“The firewall between Apple enthusiasts and Microsoft Windows users has remained largely impenetrable over the past two decades. Incompatibility is not just a hardware-software issue, either,” Joseph P. Kahn writes for The Boston Globe. “There are Mac guys (and gals), and there are PC people. One camp might be graphics-crazy, the other price-conscious. But most choose one system and stick with it — to the point that Mac fans are often likened to religious cultists, whereas Windows-philes, who outnumber Mac-ies nearly 10 to 1, have made Bill Gates the richest man on the planet.”
“It’s hardly a fair fight, given the numbers. But the battle for users’ hearts, minds, and screens rages on, with the latest skirmish promising to be among the most bare-knuckled ever,” Kahn writes. “Driving this conversation from websites to water coolers is Apple’s recent introduction of its new Tiger operating system (no relation to the golfer), which tech-heads and industry analysts are hailing as the slickest, most user-friendly computer program yet. Tiger’s bells and whistles are many, including a desktop search feature that allows users to surf for files, applications, and e-mail from one location; an enhanced Web browser; mini-applications, known as Widgets, that multitask with a single mouse click; and an Automator program that rapidly does many functions only done manually on a standard PC.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Kahn propagates the idea that “Macs are expensive” in his article, but facts show that’s just a myth.
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