What is your favorite computer OS?

Neotyguy40 · Oct 30, 2009 2:25 AM

Have you ever programmed for android, or iphone for that matter? Android is basically java with apis. Its much more flexible then anything you can do with the iphone, which includes background services. Android is much more user friendly for developers and users. Review of the iphone+android sdks: http://www.infoworld.com/d/developer-wo … iphone-074

I do develop on the iPhone, and I find it much more user-friendly than Android. Java is not a core system language, and even though it is good to take less digital space than an application like C++, it still would not run as fast, and C++ is a more international computing language. The only use I've seen for Java is for integration in a web browser or other current running application. Using VM technology is much slower... It's like comparing Linux to Windows Server... The question is, have you ever programmed for both the android and iPhone? I am guessing you haven't since you don't like anything from Apple.

Windows 7 is expensive, so is every other windows version when it was launched because of how different the the oses are. A new osx version seems more like a service pack. Students can get win7 for $30 if they wanted.

Ohh yes... Windows 95, 98, and ME were really different from each other... Same with Vista and Windows 7... Windows 7 should have been a service pack too. Nay, it should have been Vista...

I would like to point out that Apple releases constant software updates that are like service packs. Though since they come out quickly, bugs are killed before many people notice them.

Many people in my family use cheap $500 notebooks for office work and the such, they use them because they work. Not because they need to spend more than a grand on a laptop that can do the same thing that they need done.

Like I've said before, many people need a higher tech machine. It's just like dial-up vs. cable/fiber optics. Some people can get by on using those computers, and others need a more powerful machine.

The argument is always, "oh hey I can run windows apps on my mac", well guess what? I can run windows apps on my windows laptop. I don't see the advantage to buying an apple laptop if I can do everything with what I have.

The point is getting a machine that is integrated with the software. Unlike Dell, HP, Gateway, and other PC manufacturers, Apple doesn't need to adapt their machines to fit their software. And if they do, then they can adapt it quickly and efficiently.

Apple macbooks look too effeminate to me, and I don't like the dock type thing. Looks like too much clutter.

So you are saying that Macbooks look too... Girly? I think you may need to come up with a better argument than that. And also about the clutter, OSX comes with 2 great things called Spaces and Exposé.

-Makes claims that all executables can be decompiled back into source code.

Now when did I say 'all' executables? I believe I said 'many'.

Whatever you can make for Mac, you can make for Windows. You just need to compile it to fit into an exe.

It's true, you can port any cross-platform language to Windows.

Clock speeds are almost 50% faster than Windows

That was back when it was 10.6 vs Vista, and many sources proved it was true.

Everything that I make on Mac I can port to windows in less then half an hour.

I've never seen any source code that couldn't be ported to Windows from a Mac. The core APIs aren't all that different, you just need to change some functions and variables. And everything that I make on a Mac, I can port to Windows.

I would appreciate it if you did not attempt to insult me personally. There are many things that you stated that were complete fabrications about OSX, so try and keep the conversations mature.

I believe it is my turn to attack, so I would like change to customer service and environment.

I have only once needed to take my MacBook Pro to the Apple store (one of my keyboard buttons fell out and I needed to get it back in) and I was in and out of there in half the time they told me. They said they would be done in 15 minutes, but they alerted me in a little over 5 minutes that they were done.

Infact, Apple customer service is so excellent, that Microsoft is copying Apple and trying to bribe the employees to help at their new 'MS Stores'. Currently, the majority of MS's costumer care currently reside in India.

Now on to the subject of environment...

Apple is the most environmentally friendly computer manufacturer in the world. Ahead of all the other big leaguers. All toxins and dangerous materials have been removed, and they currently are the most energy efficient computers.

They even left the Chamber of Commerce for what they believed in... That took guts to stand up against those millions of companies and call them out like that.

I like the environment, and I like technology that works. That is why I choose Apple.

I also like polar bears... That has nothing to do with the debate but I just wanted to point that out. Save the polar bears!

Swaffy wrote:

I see that the team I'm on is quickly winning this debate. Keep it up, S.R.
You're much better at explaining things to someone else than I ever will be.

That would mean that the last word would take the cake. I do not see that happening.

Apoc · Oct 31, 2009 10:44 AM

Sod all that and just give me Linux with WINE and I'll be happy.

scottieprior · Feb 15, 2012 3:51 PM

I like the Windows 7 and Ubuntu 11. version. The reason after choosing these System for the better computability, better performance, better usability, easy in use virus free and more secure than other system.

Clock-la · Feb 15, 2012 3:54 PM

WHY U BUMP OLD TOPICS

Latias fan · Feb 15, 2012 8:44 PM

That awkward moment when you bump a thread made 3 years ago.

Stormy · Feb 15, 2012 9:18 PM

...Right, I'm just going through all these bumped topics and I'm noticing a pattern here. What was the point of posting the exact same thing in five bumped topics? And why didn't you just report them? -___- Warnings to both Clock-la and Latias fan, who I would expect to know something like this by now.

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