Comments on: I have crush on Apple http://www.andfaraway.net/blog/2006/01/15/i-have-crush-on-apple/ Another Casualty to the Seduction Of Art Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:00:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: And Far Away » Now happier at service announcementhttp://www.andfaraway.net/blog/2006/01/15/i-have-crush-on-apple/comment-page-1/#comment-27588 And Far Away » Now happier at service announcement Sat, 04 Jul 2009 21:34:48 +0000 http://andfaraway.net/blog/2006/01/15/i-have-crush-on-apple/#comment-27588 [...] five years after you read that, I catch up with the world’s sheer joy, and discover the elixir of [...] [...] five years after you read that, I catch up with the world’s sheer joy, and discover the elixir of [...]

]]> By: nasimjo©http://www.andfaraway.net/blog/2006/01/15/i-have-crush-on-apple/comment-page-1/#comment-514 nasimjo© Thu, 19 Jan 2006 12:19:00 +0000 http://andfaraway.net/blog/2006/01/15/i-have-crush-on-apple/#comment-514 Now here comes the Real tech guy. Who on earth said that Apple is just for designers, or that apple is just a lifestyle. Apple is a real development environment and a large world of APIs, all mixed with huge machine performance (That only UltraSparcs could be compared to) and an Excellently engineered Unix based OS.Dear Mr "killer bee", Developers under Apple environment is widely available in Europe and the states, Arabia have always been a blind Microsoft dependent!As a Java Developer, and many of Java Developers around the world, prefer to develop on Apple platform rather than Windows and most Linux Operating Systems, and some would even prefer it more than Sun's solaris since Many multimedia programing are available for Java on Apple Platform (hint: Quicktime) that would be more useful and productive to develop under Apple Platform.Not to forget the big abilities Apple provide for Clustering and RAID storage Servers. As well as Broadcasting servers over the web and data cables (hint HTTV)and by the way, you can have Linux running on Apple Machine as Well (Hint: Yellow Dog Linux)and by the way roba, just like jameed, I've been saving money to get an Apple Box soon, Hopefully I will this year, and will have a PowerPC Apple not an Intel inside Apple, Ahmad Humeid told me about a place that sells stock and used apples at very good prices around the town, so Let's hit it baby !And as I've always said: AN APPLE A DAY KEEPS THE BUG AWAY) Now here comes the Real tech guy.
Who on earth said that Apple is just for designers, or that apple is just a lifestyle.
Apple is a real development environment and a large world of APIs, all mixed with huge machine performance (That only UltraSparcs could be compared to) and an Excellently engineered Unix based OS.

Dear Mr “killer bee”, Developers under Apple environment is widely available in Europe and the states, Arabia have always been a blind Microsoft dependent!

As a Java Developer, and many of Java Developers around the world, prefer to develop on Apple platform rather than Windows and most Linux Operating Systems, and some would even prefer it more than Sun’s solaris since Many multimedia programing are available for Java on Apple Platform (hint: Quicktime) that would be more useful and productive to develop under Apple Platform.

Not to forget the big abilities Apple provide for Clustering and RAID storage Servers. As well as Broadcasting servers over the web and data cables (hint HTTV)

and by the way, you can have Linux running on Apple Machine as Well (Hint: Yellow Dog Linux)

and by the way roba, just like jameed, I’ve been saving money to get an Apple Box soon, Hopefully I will this year, and will have a PowerPC Apple not an Intel inside Apple, Ahmad Humeid told me about a place that sells stock and used apples at very good prices around the town, so Let’s hit it baby !

And as I’ve always said: AN APPLE A DAY KEEPS THE BUG AWAY)

]]> By: Killer Bee Bophttp://www.andfaraway.net/blog/2006/01/15/i-have-crush-on-apple/comment-page-1/#comment-513 Killer Bee Bop Tue, 17 Jan 2006 15:49:00 +0000 http://andfaraway.net/blog/2006/01/15/i-have-crush-on-apple/#comment-513 "BLEH" ... I totally don't dig this post. That old myth of Apple and designers. It's all just marketing! And one thing thatproves how Apple sucked in the market, especially in the older days, is it's failure to achieve any decent share in the PCmarket, it's failure to sustain a rigid position in the software market for their Macs. While there are zillions of softwareproducts for x86/Windows, not even a tenth is out there for Mac users! And this isn't something that could be easilyneglected!I'd say this move is totally Intel's, the masterminds of the market and the masterminds of the semiconductor industry(checkout their 65nm new fabrication process! The world is going Nano!). They wanted to expand their dominance over the market toinclude brainwashed designers who use Macs just because they've been told it's the best for designing, although an Intel/AMDbased system with Windows/Linux OS can do just as well, and they're not any short of software to manage that job!Intel always made up for it's not-so-good, very ancient architecture, with brilliant marketing techniques! AND with insanelydeveloped enhancements in execution flow and ever-increasing clock speeds (which made Intel's CPUs perfect space heaters,talk about multi-function! And now they can't seem to bring them GHz any further :|), needless to say that they couldn't havedone all that without the help of their infamous electronic engineers that made everyone Amen to Moore's Law. But 64-bit isaround the corner, and x86 is in it's final stages of aging. You can't live forever dear!Now Apple's sales are mostly due to iPods, which they excelled in marketing, that people started to think they're the newWalkman, which they ain't. And people believed that "iPod" and "MP3 Player" are interchangeable words! Which they ain't.There are other vendors who offer much better solutions than Apple's iPods, take Creative's ZENs for example! Apple mostlysucked/sucks because of it's obsession with propiretaries, take the hellish iTunes for example!The only one who's mostly bugged by all this is Mr. Bill Gates. Linux? Google? Mozilla? And now MAC? How could it be worse?Microsoft is going DOWN folks!Apple's only true area of dominance is within you guys, and that was way in the beginning when proprietary moves did work,and designers are so easy to fool anyway! So they got away with that, good for them. But it's not gonna stay like thatforever, I tell ya!"BLEH" ... I totally don't dig this post. That old myth of Apple and designers. It's all just marketing! And one thing thatproves how Apple sucked in the market, especially in the older days, is it's failure to achieve any decent share in the PCmarket, it's failure to sustain a rigid position in the software market for their Macs. While there are zillions of softwareproducts for x86/Windows, not even a tenth is out there for Mac users! And this isn't something that could be easilyneglected!I'd say this move is totally Intel's, the masterminds of the market and the masterminds of the semiconductor industry(checkout their 65nm new fabrication process! The world is going Nano!). They wanted to expand their dominance over the market toinclude brainwashed designers who use Macs just because they've been told it's the best for designing, although an Intel/AMDbased system with Windows/Linux OS can do just as well, and they're not any short of software to manage that job!Intel always made up for it's not-so-good, very ancient architecture, with brilliant marketing techniques! AND with insanelydeveloped enhancements in execution flow and ever-increasing clock speeds (which made Intel's CPUs perfect space heaters,talk about multi-function! And now they can't seem to bring them GHz any further :|), needless to say that they couldn't havedone all that without the help of their infamous electronic engineers that made everyone Amen to Moore's Law. But 64-bit isaround the corner, and x86 is in it's final stages of aging. You can't live forever dear!Now Apple's sales are mostly due to iPods, which they excelled in marketing, that people started to think they're the newWalkman, which they ain't. And people believed that "iPod" and "MP3 Player" are interchangeable words! Which they ain't.There are other vendors who offer much better solutions than Apple's iPods, take Creative's ZENs for example! Apple mostlysucked/sucks because of it's obsession with proprietaries, take the hellish iTunes for example!The only one who's mostly bugged by all this is Mr. Bill Gates. Linux? Google? Mozilla? And now MAC? How could it be worse?Microsoft is going DOWN folks!Apple's only true area of dominance is within you guys, and that was way in the beginning when proprietary moves did work,and designers are so easy to fool anyway! So they got away with that, good for them. But it's not gonna stay like thatforever, I tell ya! Sorry about this lengthy, way too technical comment. I would've posted it as a blog entry in response to yours, if I had ablog, that is ... I just hate how you designers act towards technology. I just hated how naïve this post sounded. You buytechnology only because it's aesthetically marvellous? It looks good I agree with that, but newsflash, technology isprincipally about functionality! You don't do Apple much good with this post as most commenters suggested. They've beenoverly abusing this aspect already, and they're much better at it, what Apple needs is someone to defend their positionwithin the S/W market, bringing in some other proprietary application (why change that now?) that only works with Apple andis so demanded that people would consider switching to Apple only to get their hands on it. Or maybe what Apple needs is amajor shift in sales and pricing policies so that it can sell easier, but I doubt they'll ever do that.By all means, keep on loving Apple, but try to love it for a better reason.Gaal "sex sells" gaal! w hay kamaan "BLEH" lal shabaab!Start your hatemail already! Long live freedom of speech!P.S. Ibrahim, I always collect electronics packaging! It's driving my parents nuts! “BLEH” … I totally don’t dig this post. That old myth of Apple and designers. It’s all just marketing! And one thing that

proves how Apple sucked in the market, especially in the older days, is it’s failure to achieve any decent share in the PC

market, it’s failure to sustain a rigid position in the software market for their Macs. While there are zillions of software

products for x86/Windows, not even a tenth is out there for Mac users! And this isn’t something that could be easily

neglected!

I’d say this move is totally Intel’s, the masterminds of the market and the masterminds of the semiconductor industry(check

out their 65nm new fabrication process! The world is going Nano!). They wanted to expand their dominance over the market to

include brainwashed designers who use Macs just because they’ve been told it’s the best for designing, although an Intel/AMD

based system with Windows/Linux OS can do just as well, and they’re not any short of software to manage that job!

Intel always made up for it’s not-so-good, very ancient architecture, with brilliant marketing techniques! AND with insanely

developed enhancements in execution flow and ever-increasing clock speeds (which made Intel’s CPUs perfect space heaters,

talk about multi-function! And now they can’t seem to bring them GHz any further :|), needless to say that they couldn’t have

done all that without the help of their infamous electronic engineers that made everyone Amen to Moore’s Law. But 64-bit is

around the corner, and x86 is in it’s final stages of aging. You can’t live forever dear!

Now Apple’s sales are mostly due to iPods, which they excelled in marketing, that people started to think they’re the new

Walkman, which they ain’t. And people believed that “iPod” and “MP3 Player” are interchangeable words! Which they ain’t.

There are other vendors who offer much better solutions than Apple’s iPods, take Creative’s ZENs for example! Apple mostly

sucked/sucks because of it’s obsession with propiretaries, take the hellish iTunes for example!

The only one who’s mostly bugged by all this is Mr. Bill Gates. Linux? Google? Mozilla? And now MAC? How could it be worse?

Microsoft is going DOWN folks!

Apple’s only true area of dominance is within you guys, and that was way in the beginning when proprietary moves did work,

and designers are so easy to fool anyway! So they got away with that, good for them. But it’s not gonna stay like that

forever, I tell ya!

“BLEH” … I totally don’t dig this post. That old myth of Apple and designers. It’s all just marketing! And one thing that

proves how Apple sucked in the market, especially in the older days, is it’s failure to achieve any decent share in the PC

market, it’s failure to sustain a rigid position in the software market for their Macs. While there are zillions of software

products for x86/Windows, not even a tenth is out there for Mac users! And this isn’t something that could be easily

neglected!

I’d say this move is totally Intel’s, the masterminds of the market and the masterminds of the semiconductor industry(check

out their 65nm new fabrication process! The world is going Nano!). They wanted to expand their dominance over the market to

include brainwashed designers who use Macs just because they’ve been told it’s the best for designing, although an Intel/AMD

based system with Windows/Linux OS can do just as well, and they’re not any short of software to manage that job!

Intel always made up for it’s not-so-good, very ancient architecture, with brilliant marketing techniques! AND with insanely

developed enhancements in execution flow and ever-increasing clock speeds (which made Intel’s CPUs perfect space heaters,

talk about multi-function! And now they can’t seem to bring them GHz any further :|), needless to say that they couldn’t have

done all that without the help of their infamous electronic engineers that made everyone Amen to Moore’s Law. But 64-bit is

around the corner, and x86 is in it’s final stages of aging. You can’t live forever dear!

Now Apple’s sales are mostly due to iPods, which they excelled in marketing, that people started to think they’re the new

Walkman, which they ain’t. And people believed that “iPod” and “MP3 Player” are interchangeable words! Which they ain’t.

There are other vendors who offer much better solutions than Apple’s iPods, take Creative’s ZENs for example! Apple mostly

sucked/sucks because of it’s obsession with proprietaries, take the hellish iTunes for example!

The only one who’s mostly bugged by all this is Mr. Bill Gates. Linux? Google? Mozilla? And now MAC? How could it be worse?

Microsoft is going DOWN folks!

Apple’s only true area of dominance is within you guys, and that was way in the beginning when proprietary moves did work,

and designers are so easy to fool anyway! So they got away with that, good for them. But it’s not gonna stay like that

forever, I tell ya!
Sorry about this lengthy, way too technical comment. I would’ve posted it as a blog entry in response to yours, if I had a

blog, that is … I just hate how you designers act towards technology. I just hated how naïve this post sounded. You buy

technology only because it’s aesthetically marvellous? It looks good I agree with that, but newsflash, technology is

principally about functionality! You don’t do Apple much good with this post as most commenters suggested. They’ve been

overly abusing this aspect already, and they’re much better at it, what Apple needs is someone to defend their position

within the S/W market, bringing in some other proprietary application (why change that now?) that only works with Apple and

is so demanded that people would consider switching to Apple only to get their hands on it. Or maybe what Apple needs is a

major shift in sales and pricing policies so that it can sell easier, but I doubt they’ll ever do that.

By all means, keep on loving Apple, but try to love it for a better reason.

Gaal “sex sells” gaal! w hay kamaan “BLEH” lal shabaab!

Start your hatemail already! Long live freedom of speech!

P.S. Ibrahim, I always collect electronics packaging! It’s driving my parents nuts!

]]> By: Luaihttp://www.andfaraway.net/blog/2006/01/15/i-have-crush-on-apple/comment-page-1/#comment-512 Luai Mon, 16 Jan 2006 07:46:00 +0000 http://andfaraway.net/blog/2006/01/15/i-have-crush-on-apple/#comment-512 You had to post that stock graph!! It hurts so bad to look at that thing. I got out at 17 and have been kicking myself ever since. And then to see it go up in the last couple of days...Mayb it's time to get back into it. What do you think? You had to post that stock graph!! It hurts so bad to look at that thing. I got out at 17 and have been kicking myself ever since. And then to see it go up in the last couple of days…Mayb it’s time to get back into it. What do you think?

]]> By: Ibrahimhttp://www.andfaraway.net/blog/2006/01/15/i-have-crush-on-apple/comment-page-1/#comment-511 Ibrahim Mon, 16 Jan 2006 02:40:00 +0000 http://andfaraway.net/blog/2006/01/15/i-have-crush-on-apple/#comment-511 How could anybody in the world resists Apple products... i even love their products packages ... i used to collect their imac package in jordan, and save my stuffs in it... they have an amazing designs. i believe that apple is a true friend for designers it served them since ages ... and because most of their products users are designers, so they made these amazing designs with thier products so it can fit with the room or office decor you have :)this man is unbelievable ... How could anybody in the world resists Apple products… i even love their products packages … i used to collect their imac package in jordan, and save my stuffs in it… they have an amazing designs.
i believe that apple is a true friend for designers it served them since ages … and because most of their products users are designers, so they made these amazing designs with thier products so it can fit with the room or office decor you have :)

this man is unbelievable …

]]> By: ahmad Humeidhttp://www.andfaraway.net/blog/2006/01/15/i-have-crush-on-apple/comment-page-1/#comment-510 ahmad Humeid Sun, 15 Jan 2006 23:34:00 +0000 http://andfaraway.net/blog/2006/01/15/i-have-crush-on-apple/#comment-510 now THAT was a good post :). BTW Jobs didn't really go to much college. now THAT was a good post :). BTW Jobs didn’t really go to much college.

]]> By: Fadi khttp://www.andfaraway.net/blog/2006/01/15/i-have-crush-on-apple/comment-page-1/#comment-509 Fadi k Sun, 15 Jan 2006 21:32:00 +0000 http://andfaraway.net/blog/2006/01/15/i-have-crush-on-apple/#comment-509 goodness , i thought love only works for humans, but people might fall in love with computers, websites , sushi's and even qatayef! such a big heart :) goodness , i thought love only works for humans, but people might fall in love with computers, websites , sushi’s and even qatayef! such a big heart :)

]]> By: Linahttp://www.andfaraway.net/blog/2006/01/15/i-have-crush-on-apple/comment-page-1/#comment-508 Lina Sun, 15 Jan 2006 21:15:00 +0000 http://andfaraway.net/blog/2006/01/15/i-have-crush-on-apple/#comment-508 If I didn't know anything about the Mac Book Pro I would've fallen in love with it from your post ;)I mean, seriously, dudette.. they should start paying you for this! Somebody must've aced marketing 101 :) If I didn’t know anything about the Mac Book Pro I would’ve fallen in love with it from your post ;)

I mean, seriously, dudette.. they should start paying you for this! Somebody must’ve aced marketing 101 :)

]]> By: Basharhttp://www.andfaraway.net/blog/2006/01/15/i-have-crush-on-apple/comment-page-1/#comment-507 Bashar Sun, 15 Jan 2006 16:12:00 +0000 http://andfaraway.net/blog/2006/01/15/i-have-crush-on-apple/#comment-507 Salam Roba...you should be working now at their Marketing Department :) or PR person...i guess all designers have that that’s secret relation with Apple PCs..And BY THE WAY I almost got fired for the “SEX SELLS” link: p what’s with you people :p should we rate now our posts loool PG 18 (Adult links) :pIt might be a coincidence, or you might read it already, but i just posted a week ago about Steve Jobs not because of apple..but because he is Also the CEO of another company.. PIXAR..you know..that animation company behind the movies Toy Story 1 & 2, A Bug's Life, Monsters Inc, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles.. check it out http://thinkinganew.blogspot.com/ the second post from top. Salam Roba…you should be working now at their Marketing Department :) or PR person…i guess all designers have that that’s secret relation with Apple PCs..

And BY THE WAY I almost got fired for the “SEX SELLS” link: p what’s with you people :p should we rate now our posts loool PG 18 (Adult links) :p

It might be a coincidence, or you might read it already, but i just posted a week ago about Steve Jobs not because of apple..but because he is Also the CEO of another company.. PIXAR..you know..that animation company behind the movies Toy Story 1 & 2, A Bug’s Life, Monsters Inc, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles.. check it out http://thinkinganew.blogspot.com/ the second post from top.

]]> By: Hanihttp://www.andfaraway.net/blog/2006/01/15/i-have-crush-on-apple/comment-page-1/#comment-506 Hani Sun, 15 Jan 2006 15:29:00 +0000 http://andfaraway.net/blog/2006/01/15/i-have-crush-on-apple/#comment-506 Do you get a percent on Apple’s sales?! If not, then I think you should :DForrest Gump invested in Apple thinking it was a fruit company! That made him a millionaire, (From the movie Forest Gump for Tom Hanks) Do you get a percent on Apple’s sales?!
If not, then I think you should :D

Forrest Gump invested in Apple thinking it was a fruit company! That made him a millionaire, (From the movie Forest Gump for Tom Hanks)

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