Originally Posted by alanw
Puh-leese.
My PC came with over 150 apps! Wordpad, Messenger (which actually has other people on it), Movie Maker, even Control Panel!
um... the Mac comes with a lot more that I didn't mention. But mentioning every Gnu app, for example, would exceed the space limitations here. The Macintosh OS is BSD Unix. Every Unix app works on a Mac completely natively. Must people don't really use many Unix apps day-to-day, though, so I didn't mention them. I have no idea how many apps total actually come bundled in the box. I would guess a couple of hundred, not including what you can access through Terminal.
Let's not be disengenuous here...this Mac thing is a cheap computer that comes bundled with the same bog-standard crap Windows and Linux machines come bundled with in the OS.
That's just it: the standard apps that come with every Mac are
not the same bog-standard crap you get with Windows and Linux machines. These apps are actually widely considered the best in their class. Sure, you can edit a video on any machines, but you can do it easily, enjoyably, more efficiently, more intuitively using iMovie than any of the bog-standards out there. Apple spends as much as Dell on R&D, but Dell is 10 times Apple's size. The end result is that the products offered are actually good and often the best. Watch the most recent
keynote to see some of the demos of the iApps.
Do you get paid to write ad copy for Apple, by any chance?
Not to write ad copy, no.
BTW, recording a TV show != media center. See Meedio, XP Media Center Edition, MyHTPC, Freevo, MythTV, etc. PC-based, 10-foot interface, integrated remote control, no need for mouse, keyboard, or a half-dozen contraptions hanging out of every USB port. This new Apple box might make a good platform for such a thing, but there is no software even close to doing it (and a Google search turns up absolutely nothing likely in development).
Apple does not discuss products in development. You will not find anything official related to future products in a google search. If you do, you can be sure that a team of lawyers has already descended upon whoever hosts the site, whoever publishes the site and whoever leaked the information. There are three such cases now.
Apple's famous for its secrecy. 99% of the employees have no idea what's being announced until the public does. 5% may have a bit of information here, another bit there, but nowhere near enough to have any significant knowledge.