Good lord. I honestly don’t think there’s a figure large enough. From the font rendering, to the design. I just cannot stand Windows. If anything, the only case in which I’d consider switching from Windows to a Mac would be if Apple dropped the ball and Windows somehow overtook it.
I have no idea what makes one operating system work better than another, except that I know you need to have someone in charge who keeps telling the engineers that it’s not good enough—go back and do better. And that, my friends, is why Apple, and all of us, need Steve Jobs.
Fraser Speirs talks about his recent acquisition of Changes.app (an OS X File Comparison and Diff-ing application).
Congratulations to Martin Pilkington for going full-time-indie today. We use Martin’s Lighthouse Keeper app at Realmac HQ, and can’t wait to see what else he’s got in the pipeline.
It’s a super-neat OS X app that uses the Skyhook WIreless API to find your location and update Fire Eagle.
More like: Windows 7 box art leaks - happens to look like the Vista design with cues from the Mac OS X Tiger box…
June, I can just see it: Apple launches 2 new OS’s, a new phone, and Steve returns. Headlines: ‘NO TABLET. WORST KEYNOTE EVER.’
I don’t know how well the developers are doing in the MacHeist equation, but whatever they’re losing, they’re buying the services of a master marketer.
Alternate side of the story from TUAW’s Christina Warren (a.k.a. my sister).
An update from Marco Arment who’s heard from MacHeist’s Phil Ryu.
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