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Apple doesn't want PC userss to have docks - that's one of their things to sway people over. Besides, a situation like this will only be publicized in hard-core techie places anyways... anybody who's mainstream will never even hear about this.
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But if only hard-core techie places care about this program, what good is it to stop them from using it, because they'd never buy a Mac in the first place?
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SOME techies buy macs....
Just cause you don't like them
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Hardcore techies who use a dock-clone on Windows do not buy Macs. I assure you.Originally posted by MattH
SOME techies buy macs....
Just cause you don't like them
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I use windows, linux, and mac on a constant basis. Windows I use for gaming and typing, linux for coding/tech and Mac for graphics (I'm switching the coding to mac...). While I have no personal preference, it says a lot that a windows user has copied the Mac UI design.cIV list: cheats
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There are also Windows feature clones/themes for Macs and Linux, what's your point?
The important point is Windows' Dock is not fundamentally stupid like Apple's, in that it doesn't maintain launched programs -- it simply launches them. That's all the dock is good at."The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
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How is the Apple dock stupid? The open programs have a little arrow underneath their names. You click on the icon an they move to the front...cIV list: cheats
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It makes multiple instances of a program clumsy and stupidly impossible.
It mixes programs-that-are-running with programs-that-are-not-running.
It is more difficult to see what, exactly, is running than it is in Windows.
It doesn't show any text to describe what the application is, and what's worse, it doesn't have an entry for all windows open, just applications. Slower to use.
It's a very stupid design like that."The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
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Yeah, the no windows design is rather dumb. It seems that it's being changed in Panther (took them long enough...). The icons are easy to recognize (how hard is it to tell Photoshop from IE or PageMaker- not very). I don't really find the arrows hard to see, but that's just a personal thing.cIV list: cheats
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Duh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh Doo-doo-de-do-de-doo. That wins the profound statement of the week award.Originally posted by monolith94
Apple doesn't want PC userss to have docks - that's one of their things to sway people over. Besides, a situation like this will only be publicized in hard-core techie places anyways... anybody who's mainstream will never even hear about this.
The people who will here of this are third party developers (including myself) who aren't enamored of only supporting specific platforms, but really aren't enamored of getting jacked around by somebody's giant lawyers looking for excuses to claim infringement.
What "anybody who's mainstream" will never hear about is the overall level of innovation and extended usability that active third party developers can provide, because a lot of those third party developers will say "**** it, why bother supporting this platform, because they're a bunch of *******s and there's no money in it"When all else fails, blame brown people. | Hire a teen, while they still know it all. | Trump-Palin 2016. "You're fired." "I quit."Comment
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It's a very stupid design like that.
If the Dock has such a stupid design, then why are you so pissed off that Apple has killed the PC clone of it?
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And your buddy M$ does the exact same thing, Asher, only they suck badly at it.Originally posted by Asher
Apple drives many of their 3rd party developers away with their first-party products. It's the exact same problem Nintendo has.
And neither of them seems bright enough to do anything about it.
Nintendo and Apple both have shrinking marketshare, so I wonder how long it'll take them to clue in this probably isn't the best route?
Nintendo's a pretty mean company too, remember when they sued Blockbuster to try to get them to stop renting games?
Apple has a new strategy for the early 21st Century: Make the Mac the perfect hub for consumer gadgets such as digital cameras, PDAs, cell phones, digital video cameras and MP3 Players, etc. It's called the digital hub strategy, and it only extends to consumer electronics. Get used to it. Apple has got to do something to become successful.
This has been going on for quite awhile, Asher. Where have you been?
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As I've already mentioned, the clone only cloned the functional part of the Dock -- the application launch stuff.Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
It's a very stupid design like that.
If the Dock has such a stupid design, then why are you so pissed off that Apple has killed the PC clone of it?
Hmm. Why would you say they suck badly at it?And your buddy M$ does the exact same thing, Asher, only they suck badly at it.
/me looks at marketshare figures.
Maybe I shouldn't tell you that Apple isn't the only one doing that.Apple has a new strategy for the early 21st Century: Make the Mac the perfect hub for consumer gadgets such as digital cameras, PDAs, cell phones, digital video cameras and MP3 Players, etc. It's called the digital hub strategy, and it only extends to consumer electronics. Get used to it. Apple has got to do something to become successful.
This has been going on for quite awhile, Asher. Where have you been?
Don't you remember the Windows XP commercials? It's the same thing.
Not to mention MS goes a lot further with the Media Centre Edition of Windows..."The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
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They do? I don't see driver install disks for OSX. I don't see DRM. I don't see a media player that monitors and sends data...
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Never bought a new video card for the Mac, have you?Originally posted by MattH
They do? I don't see driver install disks for OSX.
Hello? iTunes store? DRM haven.I don't see DRM.
Yes, you do. How do you think iTunes gets track information?I don't see a media player that monitors and sends data..."The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
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