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Originally Posted by patrick
that's not quite true... [blah blah blah]
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My guess is you are not a developer. . . Yeah, there are alot of unstable apps on windows, but thats because there are alot of incompetent developers out there. The reason for this? It is easy (read 'cheap') for anyone to begin developing in a windows environment and it isnt long before a novice is in over his head with concepts that arise on any platform, i.e. multi-threading, resource contention, security, transactional processing, data integrity, deployment, versioning, etc. . . If Apple development were as ubiquitous, you would see just as much instability in the mac world. On the other hand, when you know what you are doing and you need to do something complex - for example, distributed systems based on SOA, you can't beat Microsoft. The .Net Framework is hands down the quickest and most flexible application framework available.
It costs nothing to begin developing -the framework, documentation and walkthroughs are free. And You can deploy to any device with out involving Microsoft -
UNLIKE APPLE.
Apple knows windows is best for distributed development. . . Want proof? You know that nifty device the morons in the apple store use to ring you up on the floor??? Windows CE running on Symbol hardware
IPhone sucks. . . looks pretty but its all fluff. Can't write your own progams for it with out spending tons of money or involving their [cr]App Store. Can't download music over the internet with out being in WiFi and then only via ITunes.
And the platform is gimped! You know whats fun. . . seeing some fool with his iPhone thinking he's all that, spinning and pinching his safari browser.
And then I inquire "can you do this?" . . . .
I pull out my Windows Mobile 6.1 phone. . .
Over cellular data connection, not WiFi, I open a Remote Desktop to my home computer.
I edit a Word document file
ON MY HOME COMPUTER and save it.
I then use the phones file explorer and browse to my home computer via a UNC path and open, edit and save, the same document in Mobile Word.
Finally, I go back to the Remote Desktop and open the same file showing the edits I just made using my phone.
Yes its a trivial exercise, but it demonstrates the power of the platform. let me say it again, with emphasis. . .
POWER!
IPod sucks. I will simply say that it is ridiculous that when I put things on the iPod it changes the file extracting the metadata to a proprietary database and replacing it with a pointer to said data in the database. What this means is that, in the event of a hard drive failure, to get
MY MUSIC back on my hard drive I must install a third party application on my system to recreate the original file. What the fuck is that all about???
In short, Some do work on computers, Some make computers do work.
Windows does the latter better. And isn't that what computers are all about?