Are Macs gonna become the new standard?

If you're watching a movie or TV show, it's always a mac being used as a computer. Apparently Adobe and Apple are gonna strike up a deal to really give windows a run for it's money.

If you're watching a movie or TV show, it's always a mac being used as a computer. Apparently Adobe and Apple are gonna strike up a deal to really give windows a run for it's money.

They have certainly become much more popular recently. I think it's one hell of a huge step but it looks like Macs may be taking over.

As good as it is, I sure hope not....

Macs. Standard. Heh.

*Falls out of seat laughing hysterically and loses breath and starts beating on back gasping for air reaching for the phone to call 911, right before head explodes from hysterical overload*

That's a bunch of hogwash. People who like macs are non-conformist, anti-social attention seekers. OR they just don't know any better and truly think proprietary apple hardware is better than the freedom of choice that is afforded to PC enthusiasts.

Haha no.

Apple is hitting there high mark like every company.

Think about it, Wal-Mart, dominate force in the market for 3-4 years and looked like everywhere was gonna be a Wal-Mart. Now they are just another company. Wal-Mart is no longer the dominant one stop shop now that they have heavy competition from Target. But yet they still have there big amount of customers that keep them going.

Microsoft hit there stride with XP, buying 40% of apple to keep them in buisness and launched the Xbox all in a short time span. Now, Microsofts dominance in the market is decreasing. They might go from 92 to say 55% in the market while OSX and Linux fill the rest of the void.

macs are in movies because mac pays more to be put in movies it's called marketing.. mac are only like 5% of the PC market. and they'll always be #2!ferrari2001

:lol: Apple doesn't pay a thing to be in movies. Their products are chosen because they're attractive, no one can compete with their designs.

I think windows will remain the standard for as long as operating systems are relevant. We'll see the market become increasingly fractured though as OSX gains consumer share and Linux becomes more user friendly.

I really wouldn't be surprised to see operating systems, as we know them, disappear in the next 10 years though. MS and Apple would do well to start exploring alternatives as soon as possible.

[QUOTE="ferrari2001"]macs are in movies because mac pays more to be put in movies it's called marketing.. mac are only like 5% of the PC market. and they'll always be #2!dgbiker1

:lol: Apple doesn't pay a thing to be in movies. Their products are chosen because they're attractive, no one can compete with their designs.

I think windows will remain the standard for as long as operating systems are relevant. We'll see the market become increasingly fractured though as OSX gains consumer share and Linux becomes more user friendly.

I really wouldn't be surprised to see operating systems, as we know them, disappear in the next 10 years though. MS and Apple would do well to start exploring alternatives as soon as possible.

LAWL and iMacs are pretty to look at...atleast thats one good thing about them.

That's a bunch of hogwash. People who like macs are non-conformist, anti-social attention seekers. OR they just don't know any better and truly think proprietary apple hardware is better than the freedom of choice that is afforded to PC enthusiasts.

n_kors

I'm going to assume you have never used a Mac, or you know no one who owns one. I have used a PC all my life, but in college we used Macs because they work better for the more creative side of things -- like editing films and the like. I've recently purchased a Mac from the school, and not because I'm a non-comformist (tonnes of people buy Macs, it's not nearly as unusual as it maybe once was) NOR that I'm anti-social, it just does a better job/supports better programs for what I do for a living.

Right now I'm on a laptop that's a PC because I'm just surfing the net, and truthfully I find Microsoft Word more intuitive than Word for Mac -- but if it's anything related to Photoshop, Final Cut or music I go back onto my Mac. Photoshop is the same on both systems, but I have tried Avid (video editing software for PCs) and I don't like it as much as Final Cut 6.

There do exist people who don't prefer one over the other. (As for Linux, I have never used it.)

That's a bunch of hogwash. People who like macs are non-conformist, anti-social attention seekers. OR they just don't know any better and truly think proprietary apple hardware is better than the freedom of choice that is afforded to PC enthusiasts.

n_kors

I'm going to assume you have never used a Mac, or you know no one who owns one. :P I have used a PC all my life, but in college we used Macs because they work better for the more creative side of things -- like editing films and the like. I've recently purchased a Mac from the school, and not because I'm a non-conformist (tonnes of people buy Macs, it's not nearly as unusual as it once was) NOR that I'm anti-social, it just does a better job/supports better programs for what I do for a living.

Right now I'm on a laptop that's a PC because I'm just surfing the net, and truthfully I find Microsoft Word more intuitive than Word for Mac so I write documents on here -- but if it's anything related to Photoshop, Final Cut or soundtracks I go back onto my Mac. Photoshop is the same on both systems, but I have tried Avid (video editing software for PCs) and I don't like it as much as Final Cut 6.

As for the 'one-button mouse' argument, if you have a Mighty Mouse you not only have right-click, but also a scroll ball (scrolls left to right and up and down) which also turns into a button that you can assign to do different things, and it also has "squeeze" buttons that can be assigned another task: bringing up your Dashboard, for instance. If you're stuck with the mouse the computer came with, pressing ctrl+click is only laborious for one-handed people.

There do exist people who don't prefer one over the other.:o (As for Linux, I have never used it, so I won't comment on it any further.)

Given all that, I don't see Mac taking over the market from Microsoft, though they are becoming more and more popular.

I hope not. They're too full of themselves. Shiggums

[QUOTE="Shiggums"]I hope not. They're too full of themselves. SolidSnake35

Actually Apple do pay for there products to be in Movies and Music videos.

A lot of companies do, even Gizmondo did... that was in a music video for some random song AFTER gizmondo had already died, because they'd already settle an agreement for the product to be in the video.