Users don't like Apple products anymore because they're just shitty rebranded UNIX on cheap PC knockoff or ARM hardware. I think the problem is that most Apple "programmers" don't know how to program well enough to tell what's wrong with all that bullshit. Apple used to write all (or nearly all) the software themselves. They had systems programmers and GUI programmers and multimedia programmers. Apple could have made a modern GUI environment similar to the Symbolics and Xerox workstations (as much as possible on a RISC, anyway) with updated graphics and modern features but instead they took some shitty free UNIX code and built an "OS" around it by adding more bullshit to it, making quality and productivity worse. What sucks about UNIX is that it's so unproductive that they have to take other people's free software in order to do what they used to be able to program themselves in assembly on less powerful hardware.
> I'd like to pass along this question...anyone have an
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> Macs still dont really recognize the internet, or perhaps
> I should say they dont track Unix mail developments.
JP, that's absurd.
I can also claim that Unix doesn't support Macintosh email
developments, and (I believe) there's about 5 times as many
Macintoshes in the world as unix machines.
How come most (all?) unix vendors don't support Applelink,
Stuffit compression, Quickmail, Appletalk zones, Macintosh
floppy disks, AppleShare file sharing, Quicktime, MacWrite
and MacDraw files, etc.? It's not because the formats are
secret or proprietary - all these formats are either public
domain or available at licensing fees far cheaper than
AT&T's.
It's equally absurd to equate the Internet with unix (though
the contamination is pretty pervasive). The Internet and its
essential protocols (finger, telnet, ftp, SMTP mail) were
developed on non-unix machines while unix was still wearing
uucp diapers. Unix is still wearing the same diapers, they
just leak more now and you get to smell it every time your
mail is returned with an incomprehensible error message, or
when you try rlogin on some new machine and your terminal
settings are all fouled up. Forget multimedia, why is it
after 20 years unix can't even get your rubout key right?
Never mind that, there are native Macintosh programs which
support finger, telnet, rlogin, SMTP mail, NNTP news, POP
mail, time, and every other Internet protocol you can think
of. Go over to some mac ftp sites like
sumex-aim.stanford.edu:/info-mac/comm/* and take a look.