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teaearlegreyhot said:

cali said:

Now imagine if Tim Cook or Jony Ive were caught using a Galaxy phone?

I remember years ago (back in the powerbook days) that Steve Jobs used an IBM/Windows computer. He was quoted as saying he needed it for certain business functions. Can't find the citation just now, but I am certain of this.

It was an IBM ThinkPad running NextStep, being the software platform he'd been using before he came back to Apple.

redstater said:

<massive block of solid text>

You might consider using something called a paragraph to make your posts more readable.

Seriously.

badmonk said:

It makes sense to me that iPads would be more effective for elementary school children and laptops for older students.  Ideally, education should evolve so that students have access to both...a laptop for composition and an iPad for textbooks and reference.

I was on the school board of a small elementary school 2012-14, and we (and the kids in grades 5-8) found the iPads to be quite useful in class.

We also had four PC laptops (the teachers were all Mac users, don't ask) in the classroom for a few things that the iPads just weren't suited for, mostly being some math applications that were only available as Java applications. They did most of their writing and presentation work on the iPads, using Pages and Keynote.

It can be done.

knowitall said:

It cannot be 'renamed back' because it was never 'MacOS'.

The Mac's operating system was officially named "Mac OS" as of 7.5.1, becoming "Mac OS X" with the release of Kodiak, which was the Mac OS X public beta release.

It didn't become "OS X" (dropping the "Mac" prefix) until Mountain Lion, OS X 10.8.

Space or no space in the name, it spent years officially named Mac OS.

Great strategy.

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