Alittle Thread called Taking the Credit
Why is it PC, esp. "Win 7" seems to be advertising all the cool things Mac OS X does and has done for years? I just saw a commercial on their so called great product being able to show all open apps at one time called the app bar. OS X does this already in two very different ways. Esp. with the use of the finger gestures on the mouse pad. When OS X came out it was the biggest revolutionary change in the OS market ever, but Apple did not capitalize too much. They had their commercial sure, but not the constant portrayal of new a OS based off of an already old existing software, no not VIsta. I am talking XP. Windows 7 is just a pretty version of XP with cool OS X features made for the PC. What the commercials should say is "I had an idea, that Apple already came up with, and this is now my idea."
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Now that they have the possibility of actually owning something that can do this, it's suddenly interesting and don't care that Apple had it for ages. This is what's worrying about Apple's longevity. There's only so much innovation that can come out and if computer users don't even give them credit when they earn it, what happens when they just start pushing Core 2 Duo laptops for nearly a year without updating them?
You see the same with the iPhone. They are so quick to promote the Pre and Nexus One, even calling them iPhone killers as though somehow they miss the fact they are declaring openly what the benchmark device is.
Yeah, I've seen this a lot. It's funny though because years ago when this stuff was in OS X, PC users acted like it was no big deal. System-wide font anti-aliasing, double-buffered OpenGL rendered desktops, transparencies, fluid and complex animations, Expose, Dashboard and many more, all met with a resounding 'meh' just because it was Apple and they didn't own one.
Now that they have the possibility of actually owning something that can do this, it's suddenly interesting and don't care that Apple had it for ages. This is what's worrying about Apple's longevity. There's only so much innovation that can come out and if computer users don't even give them credit when they earn it, what happens when they just start pushing Core 2 Duo laptops for nearly a year without updating them?
You see the same with the iPhone. They are so quick to promote the Pre and Nexus One, even calling them iPhone killers as though somehow they miss the fact they are declaring openly what the benchmark device is.
What a shame.