Yes, I'm switching

Needless to say, I'm a very happy camper now. No wonder the apple market share is going up.

Running at 7.94% according to Net Applications, not counting web access made by the iPhone.

I suspect that they will hit 10% by next Summer.



True. As I've said before, Apple seems to get the consumer; MS gets business. Unfortunately, businesses are now wondering how they can get all the cool Apple stuff that the consumers have got.  I think the real catalyst here is that web-based applications are slowly becoming half-decent replacements for desktop applications.

Applications are a bliss to manage. Want to remove an application? Just drag it into the trash folder. Installation is even easier. Download the dmg filed, either click the install button or drag the program into the applications folder.

That's not strictly true ... have a quick look in your Application Support folder ...

Still, a lot easier than getting stuff off Windows. I'm amazed at the amount of cruft left behind by apps that are supposedly uninstalled.

I call bull**** at EU for saying Microsoft has a monopoly.

The EU is out of its tiny mind, but I don't think the problem has ever been Microsoft having a monopoly, because they're not illegal (BT has had a monopoly here for years, and we've all suffered because of it). The problem is how MS chooses to maintain that monopoly.

Mmm .... don't the Americans have more than one phone company? They seem to cope fairly well.

BT should never have been nationalised, true; but now that it is, what is needed is to take the infrastructure off them because until it is, they will continue to charge daft prices for poor services.

Yes, I'm sure that we would all like it back under government control ... but this government?

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But again we're talking about the simplifacation of things. Going inside some ~/ folder and deleting a .plist file sounds like Linux talk
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This is very true.

But still, I find that it's quicker to delete one folder and one plist file, than start regedit, hunt through  thousands of registry entries in a hierarchy that goes deeper than the centre of the Earth, read through an eye-watering page of hexadecimal codes and carefully pick out and remove the registry entries for the app I've just deleted.


... but of course, that's just me.

The Registry. I have to ask yet again ... why? What was wrong with text files?

How do you do quotes here?

It's worth having a look and seeing the amount of stuff that gets left behind by apps that you deleted years ago.

But the problem is, if something corrupts it; your whole installation is pretty much shafted. Just never seen the upside of introducing a single point of failure as big as that one.

Having said that, I've only had that happen once ...

Plus, leopard isn't a great os compared to tiger (which was more polished and a lot less buggy)..

Damn right.

I didn't understand anything you said to be honest, so I apologise if I am misinterpreting you.

The sales figures for Apple are nice, but they don't mean anything, which is why I never quote them.

If Apple sells one computer one year, then two computers the following year, then that is a massive increase of 100%. If Dell sells one million computers one year, then  one and a half million the year after, then that is a less impressive increase of 50%

But what we are looking at here, are the computers in actual use (on the internet anyway). You can't get around it by arguing sales; there are proportionately less people using Windows and proportionately more using Macs.