Comments on: Licking the Boot that Kicks You http://grandtextauto.org/2005/01/11/licking-the-boot-that-kicks-you/ A group blog about computer narrative, games, poetry, and art. Wed, 19 May 2010 01:52:58 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Paolo http://grandtextauto.org/2005/01/11/licking-the-boot-that-kicks-you/comment-page-1/#comment-27331 Paolo Wed, 26 Jan 2005 21:54:16 +0000 /?p=632#comment-27331 I am an Apple user and I agree OS X destroys Window... But I am wary of someone who pinches open source ideas and sells it back to us... I I am an Apple user and I agree OS X destroys Window… But I am wary of someone who pinches open source ideas and sells it back to us… I

]]> By: mark http://grandtextauto.org/2005/01/11/licking-the-boot-that-kicks-you/comment-page-1/#comment-26472 mark Wed, 12 Jan 2005 05:34:52 +0000 /?p=632#comment-26472 Speaking as only a lukewarm mac user (and mostly Linux user), I think most of it is just a very bizarrely strong like of their products. I can see it to some extent---they really are some of the best products out there. I think OS X destroys Windows easily in terms of design, and for the vast majority of people it's a lot more usable than any distribution of Linux I've tried (ever tried to get a wireless card working on a Linux laptop?). And of course their physical designs are usually appealing. They also have a pretty good romantic backstory, as an "anti-corporation" run by guys coming up with the Apple I in a garage. And Steve Wozniak still seems pretty cool, although he hasn't been at Apple since 1985. Speaking as only a lukewarm mac user (and mostly Linux user), I think most of it is just a very bizarrely strong like of their products. I can see it to some extent—they really are some of the best products out there. I think OS X destroys Windows easily in terms of design, and for the vast majority of people it’s a lot more usable than any distribution of Linux I’ve tried (ever tried to get a wireless card working on a Linux laptop?). And of course their physical designs are usually appealing.

They also have a pretty good romantic backstory, as an “anti-corporation” run by guys coming up with the Apple I in a garage. And Steve Wozniak still seems pretty cool, although he hasn’t been at Apple since 1985.

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