[clug] Vaguely off topic: iPeds and other Android tablets - availability and comparisons to that Apple one

[Jim Croft]

the same is true in the biodiversity informatics field.  there is a
quantifiable trend to portable mac things that can be seen at
conferences, etc.

the ratio often hit and exceeds 50%. the argument is that they are
basically linux inside, you can install what you need, and all the
systems and network connectivity look after themselves, and you can
concentrate on the work.

they have a point, but ideological loathing of the big end of town
prevents me following them...

but it is not just marketing. the apple industrial design package is
very smooth.

jim

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 9:25 PM, Mike Carden <mike.carden at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 9:10 PM, David Austin <david at d-austin.net> wrote:
>
>> However if you know a little more than the average about
>> technology then Apple is not for you.
>
>
> That's an innocent and simplistic view that I won't leave
> unchallenged. While I sympathise with the idea that Apple's target
> market is people who will pay for form over function and who love the
> fact that (most of) function just follows... it's a bit silly to
> suggest that Apple users are not tech savvy.
>
> Have you been to a FOSS conf in the last 5 years? Count the MacBooks.
> FOSS devs *love* Apple. Look at the 'core Apple devs. These people are
> not writing Hello World. Their philosophy may not match yours, but
> they aren't stupid.
>
> It happens that I soldered up an Apple IIe when doing so was True Hard
> Core. I own an iPod and a (dead) G3 Powerbook. I respect Apple. Apple
> do some good stuff and some not so good stuff. To suggest that Apple
> is not for the technically savvy is very very funny indeed.
>
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