Gubbi said:
And the problem for Apple is of course a lack of decent commercial software, Adobe ditched Mac support for Premiere and other products (and Premiere was less than half way decent). So they are more or less forced to bundle software with the OS.
Adobe has nothing to do with Apple bundling software. Premiere is a professional application with a professional user interface, it is too difficult for the normal user to use. iMovie and iDVD exist to make casual movie making fun and easy for home users. It is Final Cut Pro that competes with Premiere (Premiere Elements competes with iMovie).
Adobe simply ditched premiere support because the PowerPC couldn't keep up with commodity Wintel boxes, and Adobe found a bigger market selling to Wintel workstations, coupled with the fact that Apple undercut Adobe with Final Cut. You'll notice that After Effects is still shipping on Mac, and that's because there is no competitor for AE from Apple yet/
When you can get Pinnacle's excellent Avid Liquid (Edition) 7 for just
$499.00 there's really no need for MS to supply a more advanced editing tool, IMO.
Except when I buy a Mac, I get a fantastic and easy to use tool out of the box. I don't need to spend $499 for a difficult to use tool and does not provide *AWESOME* pre-built content templates for the home user. Pinnacle and Ulead software frankly sucks compared to iMovie HD. I do lots of MiniDV movie footage editing (hundreds of hours). Nothing at the low end rivals iMovie. *NOTHING* comes close.
The reason so many software vendors ditched Mac support was because Apple market share dwindled to almost nothing. Today Apple is only staying alive because of the iPod.
False. Mac started recovery as soon as Jobs came back, created the iMac, iBook, and PowerBook, and sheppered in OS X. Mac's marketshare is far from dwindling. iPod certainly helps it out now, but you don't need a Mac to use an iPod.
Most users don't care about games, and many Mac users I know simply play games on consoles. I frankly don't care that the Mac doesn't have lots of games. Because I use computers for far more than games. When I want to play a PC game, I fire up Gamedows XP, or I'll fire up GameVista.
When I want to do other more productive tasks, I'll use a Mac.
Ya that .. but like if for example I want to to the directory for quake 4.. I can goto properties for the shortcut and hit find target, so seaching for data isn't really a big help to me.
Quake 4 isn't *DATA*. Maybe when you have a few hundred documents, emails, address book entries, and photos sitting on your drive (I have 15,000 photos), you'll realize the futility of using directories and shortcuts as a mechanism for information retrieval.
If all you do is game, then you don't need spotlight.
I surmise than when Vista comes out with WinFS search, "tagging", and "stacks" you'll be raving about it.