

Some were not impressed by Apple's WWDC presentation, cute hypocrisy






He also chimes in on the Windows 7 comments, stating:



Um. They sound the same to me. Jerk.




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RE: huh?
By Helbore on 6/9/2009 11:46:27 AM , Rating: 3
most of that "bad press" for Vista came straight out of Apple's mouth, too. The only issue Vista ever had was with older, poorly written software. In fact, had all the software vendors out there followed Microsoft's published best practises, there never would have been any Vista software woes.

Of course, Apple love to pile on the insults - collectively forgetting that OSX was completely incompatible with previous MacOS releases and the proptly did the same thing again by switching to the x86 line of processors - killing off support for all those legacy PowerPC apps.

Of crouse, Apple will bleat on about Rosetta and how they offered an emulator for older software. Ok, so you could run the old stuff - but try loading an OS9 release of Photoshop into Rosetta and see how much fun it is to use.

There were far less compatibility woes between XP and Vista than Apple's major release changes (or even minor relase, if you take into account that a codebase change was all anyone got with the move from PPC to x86)

This article well illustrates that old-time Apple hypocrisy with their knocking Win7 for exactly the same reasons they applaud their own work their latest service pack.

Still, its not really Apple's fault. You can't blame a company for using cheap and innaccurate marketing techniques if their userbase is so guillible that they lap up whatever Apple tells them.

RE: huh?
By wallijonn on 6/9/2009 2:45:20 PM , Rating: 2

No. Just as Dell release WXP with 128MB of Ram, Vista really should have had a 2GB minimum requirement. Many, many people who upgraded to Vista had about 512MB of Ram. Then there was the whole Aero GUI fiasco due to Intel meddling with system requirements.

If MS was smart they'd make Win7 a strictly 64bit OS. That was there wouldn't be any backwards compatibility issues - just 32 bit app. issues. What am I say?! Win7 works great with 1G of Ram. Just don't throw a video card with 1G of on-board Ram at it.

RE: huh?
By Helbore on 6/10/2009 2:58:22 PM , Rating: 2
Ok, so Vista's only two issues were poorly written third-party apps and hardware vendors building PCs without testing them to see if the OS runs like a pig on them.

Still not really Vista's fault, is it?

