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no! Today is not striped, today is sat. And although the new front of my computer. Now, after seventeen years of Herumärgerns with the pitfalls and backstabbing of various operating systems such as DOS, various versions of Windows or Linux and even OS / 2, I have made nails with heads and bought me as a chic aluminum part. Visually, it promises as much as it should from the ease and beauty keep the operating system. And indeed in big! The aluminum part, not the operating system. A notebook of this brand I had purchased over a year ago. But that was only for testing, before I finally lays down on the new system. Therefore, it should go today.
It all started two years ago. As part of a move into a still not completely finished Asked apartment I had my office set up in an attic, which initially was accessible only via a shaky financial ladder. The staircase had been delivered yet simple. Because I was afraid the way of the ladder - I was still afraid of heights brutal - I've set up my notebook with a temporary job at the kitchen table. Network cables are in your new home in every room - even in the kitchen - there are plenty of outlets and the kitchen table is huge. Enough room to correct. It came as it had: at some point have been focused in the moving boxes with even more cluttered kitchen on the boxes and the cables of the computer. I stayed with my foot hanging, a short tug on the cable and then it happened: My very solid and very well maintained great notebook with the prolific writer keyboard crashed in a high arc to the ground. He had immediately a deep notch, the laptop, but it still worked. Fast. That the network did not make a sound more could I get over this because there is expansion cards. The you put a side and then goes back the network. But over the next half year, then gave more and more components to their Spirit. Finally, when the screen was black, it became clear that a new device had to be purchased.
"That does no one read it." fusses just the censoring authority. "The interest but not a pig." nags them further. "No matter!" I reply, "I write to the actually not for others but just for me. Can I be so no matter whether it is interested in someone." Also, I have read just one book in which it is about a writer with writer's block. Then I noticed that the last post on this blog already more than half a year. So I set off immediately, even before the censor crabs again.
It all started two years ago. As part of a move into a still not completely finished Asked apartment I had my office set up in an attic, which initially was accessible only via a shaky financial ladder. The staircase had been delivered yet simple. Because I was afraid the way of the ladder - I was still afraid of heights brutal - I've set up my notebook with a temporary job at the kitchen table. Network cables are in your new home in every room - even in the kitchen - there are plenty of outlets and the kitchen table is huge. Enough room to correct. It came as it had: at some point have been focused in the moving boxes with even more cluttered kitchen on the boxes and the cables of the computer. I stayed with my foot hanging, a short tug on the cable and then it happened: My very solid and very well maintained great notebook with the prolific writer keyboard crashed in a high arc to the ground. He had immediately a deep notch, the laptop, but it still worked. Fast. That the network did not make a sound more could I get over this because there is expansion cards. The you put a side and then goes back the network. But over the next half year, then gave more and more components to their Spirit. Finally, when the screen was black, it became clear that a new device had to be purchased.
"It all started two years ago." of course, is nonsense! It all has much, much earlier. Some say it all started on the fourth of April 1975. Since founded the student Paul Gardner Allen and William (Bill) Henry Gates III, a company called Microsoft Corporation. This company has been around the early 80s, with products represented in the market that can be used as an operating systems for computers and are also used. And frequently. Over 90% of all computers for home users on the planet run under an operating system from Microsoft. And office software, games and game consoles, media players and portable media players, the company marketed successfully. In the meantime you can find the software from even in phones and cars. Evil tongues say, however, the firm was not so successful because their products are so good. But rather was therefore the market leader because it had repeatedly urged troublesome competition with unfair and sometimes illegal funds from the market. It has given many court cases. Some have lost the company, others have won it. I will not evaluate this. Those who are interested, which should be with reputable, publicly available Sources of information.
Two years ago something happened else that has carried the state today. The manufacturer of the software used by my office had decided that he himself developed and cast by me almost blind controlled operating concept of the heap. So it was clear that I would sooner or later have to get used. Each operating system and each program has its strengths and its weaknesses. So why not try it again a completely different product, if I have to get used anyway? This question was in my head ever wider and wider. So I have my last year in the fall of my first Apple computer purchased. A small and handy notebook made of aluminum. Stylish, fast and the service I have also learned quickly. I wanted to try just once. I also had read that the resale value of these devices is exceptionally high. If it does not suit me, should I could still sell at a relatively low loss and come back to Windows.
On the first April 1976 lifted Steven "Steve" Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne is also a company from the baptism. Supposedly in a garage. Apple, so they called this company, also had something to do with computer software, but distinguished the concept from Apple from the Microsoft strategy. While Microsoft on the development of operating system and programs concentrated, concept is software and hardware from Apple rather than unity, which we should draw together so that they are perfectly matched. It has built computers that were on the market are considered high quality and innovative, but they are comparatively expensive. Microsoft and Apple have millions, if not billions Handel fought each other. Whether Apple has always acted fairly, and who has stolen in the decades to whom ideas are capable only lawyers judge. Probably not even, for the idea though of paragraphs, but rarely have computers. Either way: In the nineties Years, put Apple in a deep crisis. Hardly anyone wanted to buy Apple computers because the world thirsted for cheap computers, which after two years with a new one can be changed even faster. The customer called for standardized office software, the world produces interchangeable files. These programs were there. But not Apple. The crisis was finally averted. By Microsoft to take this opportunity to thank that she does not have the annoying competitor Apple swept the market. Had they been able namely secure. She did, however, the exact opposite: Microsoft promised to develop its Office software for the operating system of the competitors on, and secured this so that the clientele. In addition, Microsoft also financially involved: the company bought shares of Apple. In return, Apple has refrained from a smoldering dispute over Apple's patents that Microsoft had infringed, to pursue.
disciples I do not like, yes. I do not mean the serious. Which I know too little to not like him. I mean disciples in the sense of "enthusiastic supporters". Just the followers of the system with the half-eaten apple logo have a bit younger than exemplary. The disciples of the bitten apple. "This is the best of all operating systems." they rejoice. "It is so beautiful and so easy to use" will rejoice. They shout for joy "misleading chic design and yet so safe!". "And anyway, Microsoft is sneaky, nasty and mean!" demonize them in a seemingly religious zeal. This is extremely annoying!
not I break the staff of Microsoft. Apple and Microsoft have different approaches, both have their merits. And one of them is in the market place. Therefore, there are many people build, the Windows machine. They are now faced with even more or less sent to work carefully or carelessly. It was precisely this range of quality levels you will also find Windows computers on the market. Who that much deeper into the pocket does that also get a well-configured, secure Computer. Or one has to have some idea, and ensure the security and functionality of the configuration itself. Who have no idea and no money knows, maybe someone who know or money provides. Or the computer is not as fast, not as safe or both. How it looks. No one in their right mind would ever seriously suggest that the Computerei is simple.
Apple reserves the other hand, building the computer from itself. There are few possible hardware configurations, corresponding to small is the driver confusion. And all units are built very carefully and almost lovingly configured. This has its price. It yes, no one expected, that he sold the Mercedes dealer's latest sedan with the star for the price of a used Volkswagen, right?
Then came the iPod. A chic, affordable mobile device for playing digital music. The idea was not revolutionary, not the components used. But they built up all current ideas on the subject of proven, together currently on the market for the first time in a hardware device. And then also had an attractive appearance and was easy to use. With the media database, iTunes got the buyer a free and easy to use digitizing program to the hand, their CD collections, an overview of this data to lose, and to refill the device with music. Stroke of genius by the way: who use iTunes can know that even the operating logic of some programs of the Apple operating system MacOSX. With the iTunes Store, it was finally possible, digital music and movies legally, and later also acquire off the sleazy scene of barter exchanges. The concept was and still is a huge success. In this area, Apple is the market leader. And with the iPhone seems to repeat this success story. Continuity of Apple is well secured for the foreseeable future.
stood in my kitchen until recently a rather large Tv. Before, a camping chair and to get on the kitchen table or a notebook to every now and then during a television evening the emails. Tv, camping chair and laptop I have now banished to the bedroom. In the kitchen now almost empty desk is a bare metal frame and a matte-gloss table top with a throne-like chair in front of head. Of course, both are black. Nothing should distract from what is on the desk, because of the minimalism that almost looks like an altar table: a small, almost tiny, wireless mouse with no buttons and a cute Alutastatur, of course, wireless and très chic. This is based on ER: Huge, just bare, noble matt Aluminum and glass. The establishment of all programs, data and settings, was thanks to a genius, the included program completed in little more than four hours, in my absence. Television can be sure of course, just one tiny USB Pömpel was necessary that I have not found in the bag for my old laptop. The software for it may cost more than an apple and an egg, but who cares! But it is nice and easy to use. Even better and more beautiful are the high-resolution screen of course, the documentaries in HD from the iTunes store. Incidentally, I have already mentioned that it practically for this operating system is not a virus? It is worthwhile for Hackers just do not attack an operating system that has such a small market share.
Tomorrow I'll make me a half-eaten apple tattooed on the forehead. For next week my baptism at the southern beach of the Bay of San Francisco is scheduled. From there it goes to the first pilgrimage to the nearby Cupertino, the headquarters of Apple.
Amen!
