analyse this!

stupider...likeafoxstupider...likeafox
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in General Discussion edited January 2014
Anyone else noticed that whenever analysts get quoted in tech journalism they sound like complete idiots.



how about these quotes, from this <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/19208.html"; target="_blank">article</a>



"Apple has been all but forced out of the business and educational markets", Giga's Enderle told NewsFactor.



eh?



"If Apple insists on using its operating systems to sell hardware", Enderle said, "it probably would be better off bundling the OS with the hardware."



what?



"They didn't do a good enough job of backward compatibility," Enderle told NewsFactor. "Quark never came across for OS X, and they desperately need Quark. At the very least, they have to build a better Windows emulator."



excuse me?



Do these guys just freebase all day, waiting for journalist to call? A thought they got paid for being in touch with what's happening but they obviously don't have a clue. What is going on with this?



Anyone know what I'm saying? Got any good quotes?



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Comments

  • Reply 1 of 7
    thuh freakthuh freak Posts: 2,664member
    theres probably tons of legitimate analysts out there that know what really going on and shit. but news has to be interesting. so journalists quote things that seem against the grain, and more likely to garner viewership.
  • Reply 2 of 7
    matsumatsu Posts: 6,558member
    I dunno about the rest of it but the first quote is generally true. Apple is virtually non-existent in the office business, and they've lost a lot in the education business. Schools can not afford Apple, and the situation is only going to get worse as belts tighten in school districts throughout North America. FOrget the rest of he world, where Apple is already a non-entity in education.
  • Reply 3 of 7
    giaguaragiaguara Posts: 2,724member
    Yea!



    Non existent in universities too... i'm an architect and i was teached more or less thta apples are weird and gay... that the 'real' architects have to be 'engineer compatible' and thus use windows and autocad.. <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" /> <img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[No]" />



    Well most journalist know nothin' bout the apples.. the only media i can be sure won't say things like that of apples is a local tv... if they'd do that i'd format all their compus and especially one of them ..
  • Reply 4 of 7
    giaguaragiaguara Posts: 2,724member
    BTW ... i think i won't mind a translation of English to English of the quotes..



    I don't speak journalist



    Uh am i missing then sth.. i don't have the winzoz emulator.. <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" /> <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />
  • Reply 5 of 7
    matsumatsu Posts: 6,558member
    Same here. My university has a few nice graphite Powermacs and a couple of mac friendly depts/profs (iMacs and PB's around.) Business? Forget it. All PC (mostly Dell). And who can blame them? I've not seen new macs go into a dept at my U for a couple of years now. General purpose undergrad labs get Dells. CS labs all got new SUN machines last year (new building). A few isolated pockets of mac fanaticism get macs (but haven't in a while): small grad labs (humanities, music), smaller research labs (atmospheric, geologic, vision, acoustic) and, of course, the design centers but apart from fine arts most make do with older macs (B&W G3's mostly)



    The Education dept has a bunch of macs (older beige towers) still in service. But over the last two years it seems like everything that gets replaced gets replaced with a DELL, they're everywhere.
  • Reply 6 of 7
    giaguaragiaguara Posts: 2,724member
    Not just dells...



    My previous laptop is acer, now it's running just linux...



    I have recently become very anti-windows...

    what would be the alternatives? if i wanted a laptop that DOES NOT run windows.. the ONLY change is mac. i can decide to use linux as well .. well the windows have to change as well...



    in two years those journalists will then write something interesting on linux...



    yea.. <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" /> macs are perverted... and you 'need' a windows emulator to run all the 'useful' programs.. <img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[No]" />
  • Reply 7 of 7
    junkyard dawgjunkyard dawg Posts: 2,801member
    Yeah this article quoted is absurd.



    The part about OS X's lack of compatibility really floored me. ANYONE who's followed OS X development close enough to write about it should know that Apple bent over backwards to make Classic work well. I've yet to run into an app that doesn't work in classic, and I use several obscure scientific apps written for OS 8! OS X has backwards compatibility that's AMAZING for what OS X is. Only a fool would say otherwise.



    And then the part about a windows emulator, eh, wha? They said a "better" emulator, as if OS X has ANY windows emulator. Odd. Maybe they mean Virtual PC but if so then their grammar is shoddy.



    I think likeafox is dead-on: these writers are either freebasing cocaine all day long, or they are the sort of IT dorks who know Windows and nothing else. I've had to meet lots of these IT dorks lately, and some are the world's biggest idiots....they know only what they do. One guy complained to me that OS X sucks because he only needs to run unix shells, i.e., there's no need for the other overhead. I suggested that OS X might be a nice solution for someone who needs to do more than administrate a server, but his jaw just kept hanging slack and I got a blank stare.
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