Wither Apple?
I’ve not written about Apple in awhile. Mark Pilgram’s announcement that he’s switching to Linux after 22 yeass on the Mac, and the absolutely absurd comments from the Mac zeolots just reminds me that I’ll also likely be following Mark’s lead next time I buy hardware, and for most of the same reasons. I don’t have the interest to go into it in depth, but in short, their software is uninspiring, the company is more closed and standards-unfriendly than even Microsoft, and their hardware is expensive. I don’t buy music from iTunes, and I don’t ever plan to. The only software I care about that is not on Linux is the advanced photo-editing applications like Photoshop and Lightroom.
Of course, therre’s still this little issue I’ve been obsessing about regarding citation support, but for now the stuff being added to Word 2007 is nowhere in sight on the Mac.
