[ubuntu-in] Ubuntu on Apple Mac's

[Linux Lingam]

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some quick, sobering thoughts:

1) if you like or prefer windows, remember, the macbook is the only
laptop (so far) on which you can run mac, win, gnulinux, concurrently.
so those choosing mac over win or vice-versa, can choose both.

2) all praise for ubuntu is praise for apple and mac in disguise. mark
shuttleworth is 100% inspired by the design and aesthetics and
UI-approach of apple. he makes no bones about this.

3) from its inception till its current version and even future
versions, windows is completely inspired by apple mac os. study some
computer history to discover more.

4) the engineering that has recently gone into mac os X is spectacular.


in conclusion: one innovates. the others replicate, in a fashion.

i remember someone told me a few years ago apple announced its
worldwide developer conference (and incidentally, before the launch of
vista). the posters at the conference were big bold, screaming with
the headilne "seattle, fire up your photocopiers" or words to that
effect....
i never verified this personally, just took his word for it.

anyways.

do remember that such is the power and mystique of apple and the mac,
that any discussion around it soon turns from technical and objective,
to purely emotional and subjective, and soon passions run high. this
alone is a sign of the cultural impact and a measure of the success of
apple.
in the words of the great design guru dave esslinger:
"form follows emotion"

regards
niyam