Mac is starting to suck.....isolationists...or everyone else is just jealous...

[smittenbyu]

ugggh...this whole Mac purchase is starting to becoming a bigger problem as each update of other non-mac products attached to Mac are going through. 

We got a terrabyte external drive which was working fine. We back up our pictures/videos on it. My hubby uploads his camera photos to his PC and then to the external drive. Well, now that I connect it to the Mac, they are all read-only files! A recent update bug created.

My new smartphone, google phone, was working all this while until Android went and updated (which was great actually!) and now it doesn't connect to the Mac. I am able to charge connected to the Mac but not view the files, etc. 

grrrrrrrrr.... either no one at Mac is bothered that there is a world beyond Apple products and people use a multitude of them or no one on non-Mac product folks bother that there are people who use Mac with their products.

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[echomyst.livejournal.com]

... this is precisely why J & I avoid Apple products at all costs :-P We recently installed Android on our Touchpad and I'm actually not too pleased with it (my new phone also has Android and it's so-so) -- we like WebOS much better but no one's creating software updates for it :-\

[smittenbyu]

my sis had warned me about it. But I guess I never realised the true implication of it!!

Since the world of smartphones are new, I have only seen Android and so I find it neat! ;)

[echomyst.livejournal.com]

Out of real curiosity: Why did you get the Mac despite your sis' warning? I just can't wrap my mind around Apple's popularity when it's incompatible with so many other programs / file types / etc.

Android's neat, for sure -- buggier and slower than WebOS, that's all. :-P This is why I'm not a business person: I don't understand what makes a product more popular than its competitors when it's not better. Marketing? Packaging?

[smittenbyu]

For one, the compatibility issues were getting smaller. But it seems like the small stuff is getting annoying. We also wanted to try something new. Learn something new.

Mac is great for those who are in design/movie making field. So much better than a PC. I make a lot of movies to share with family and it's far better and easier to use than Windows Movie Maker - am forever cursing it. And it's so much faster and fewer bugs than a PC. I love it for that! I turn on the Mac and it's running and ready to use in less than a minute! Not so on my hubby's brand new HP. OK... I am spoilt.

But majority of us don't use the Mac to its full capacity. I don't either. So, yeah, I don't get the whole craze, blind loyalty behind the brand either.

WebOS might be better (I have no clue, never heard of it..or maybe I did but don't know) but if not enough people are making stuff for it, well, what's the incentive to get it? It's the which comes first question. I would have really liked a blackberry. I like my buttons and am annoyed at this whole touch screen... Or at least I would like the option for either or. call me old fashioned in that sense but since RIM is in trouble and I buy a phone like once in 4 odd years, I need something that will still be around. So, a Samsung! :)

I have an incomprehensible/inexplicable loyalty to Samsung too... no reason why. I just always liked their phones better. Samsung got me with the flip phones compared to the boring Nokia back in college.... and it stuck.

There was a book I wanted to read ... you might like it too..on this very subject. Understanding the human mind and the decision making process. I thought I had bookmarked it but I didn't. Hope to find the title soon!

[echomyst.livejournal.com]

Thanks for your explanations! I've only ever used Macs for word processing and web surfing, so don't know the differences in video editing software. Also, quick startup times is definitely a bonus.

I wonder which came first -- WebOS or Android? WebOS is free, btw. It's an open source platform. Which is another reason why I don't understand no one's developing updates for it :-( Open source has so much potential! Maybe it's the same reason why Linux didn't catch on with mass populations? People are afraid of free, open source...?

Let me know if you remember the title of the book!