Comments on: It Puts The Black Mock Turtleneck On Its Skin

By: lou

lou — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 07:25:37 +0000

ALso, my mom, who's a murder-mystery novel fan, HATED the ending for "Hannibal". Then I heard my aunt, another fan of grisly criminal fiction, closed her copy of the book & threw it at the wall.
One of the big late-night lokes from that time goes like this: "Jodey Foster refused to return to the role of FBI agent Clarice because she saw the script. Julianne Moore accepted the role because she saw the paycheck."

By: Shakey

Shakey — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 01:33:31 +0000

There's nothing to stop Steve (or whoever) from streaming a keynote on QuickTime or throwing up a video podcast anyway. Christ, it's probably the ultimate lead-by-example: major Apple announcements delivered via Apple software technology would be the perfect "and this is why you'll love a Mac" advert.

By: Shakey

Shakey — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 01:29:02 +0000

It's the whole apples (no pun) and oranges situation – you can't really compare the two operating systems because they're built on different concepts. Macs have always had a more creative audience and purpose, hence the document-centric UI approach. PCs have always been either a business tool – they have an application – or a less savvy, more general audience who would tend to understand the "I'm running a program" approach more easily.

Each concept is valid and each does its job perfectly well. It's the switching between the two that can cause problems until you get used to it.

I've always had a few minor gripes with sizing windows on Mac OS, irrespective of my experience with Windows, but as I said when you get used to it everything's fine.

OSX will always be visually superior though and UI design is a critical component, as we in our respective media industries are very aware.

By: Lmd64

Lmd64 — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:57:54 +0000

Ooo, also, in the early days of disco, Cannes 1958, when the Whiskey club opened, the proprietress hung a "Disco Full" on the door while the music played all night inside to an empty venue, before she actually let anyone into the club.

A bit like everyone going to see if he'll actually follow through on his non(-speaking) appearance. Oh whatever, I'm only a recent fanboy, first macbook purchased this year, followed rapidly by a phone. I can see the appeal…

By: Lmd64

Lmd64 — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:41:21 +0000

"brushed aluminum fist… a shiny black plastic fist… unibody brushed aluminum fist cut from a solid block of… he’ll be getting a new hand every six months."

This blog is getting gayer by the day. Fisting references AND naked Josh pencil sketches? I totally approve and condone this sort of behaviour. Well done, that man.

By: Shakey

Shakey — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:08:27 +0000

Apple do have the benefit in Mac being a closed platform – they have full control over what hardware is put into their systems and therefore can focus driver creation (for instance) on a specific component set. You don't get then the massive potential for hardware conflicts and instabilities you get with Windows.

Windows' biggest strength is its undoing – it tries to be all things to all men and thus falls over in a bloated, hole-ridden mess.

By: Shakey

Shakey — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:04:13 +0000

Oh I don't know about that dude – there's a few things where Windows XP comes out over OSX in terms of useability (like clicking a red X button on a window doesn't actually close the application) and I've always felt that Windows 95 up to XP has always been laid out better than Mac OS (Vista's UI sucks balls on many levels).

Like Josh and Eli, I use both platforms for work and play and, although I'm not a tech analyst, I'd be confident in my pooter geekery to make accurate comparisons. My conclusions are too long for posting here, but suffice it to say there's no point in comparing – just use the tools!

I don't want to start any arguments here lol

By: hijinksensue

hijinksensue — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 09:31:24 +0000

this is why i dont play with the stock market. rumours shouldnt have the ability to make my money vanish.

By: josh

josh — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 09:29:42 +0000

there's actually a really interesting argument in there, though. OS X uses a "document" driven UI, not an application driven UI. This is also why the toolbar is on the top of the screen and not the floating window itself. That toolbar is the Application. The window is the document. Closing a document shouldn't close an application.

By: hijinksensue

hijinksensue — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 09:05:13 +0000

oh, they arent canceling macworld at all. Its still on for 2010. Apple just isnt going. Macworld never had much to do with Apple proper. They just always scheduled their show stopping keynotes for macworld since their entire dev community would be there.