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+Episode: 1257
+Title: HPR1257: Getting things done.
+Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr1257/hpr1257.mp3
+Transcribed: 2025-10-17 22:31:43
+
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+
+Do you still need a Mac to get things done?
+If you want to do something, use a PC.
+If you want to get something done, use a Mac.
+Those were the very words I spoke about eight years ago when I mastered the art of working
+with my very first Apple computer.
+This simplicity, elegance and productivity of the Cupertino experience had be convinced
+that the cool business of Windows Computer was not getting things done for you, but running
+spyware and participating in botnets to get things done for some dingy hacker in his
+mother's basement down in the southwest of the Ukraine.
+And in many ways, my statement was correct.
+I've been lured into the Cupertino Crag the same way a lot of people got into Apple.
+I got an iPod.
+After the iPod came the first Mac mini, then the first iBook, then the first iMac and
+so on.
+These days, my house consists mostly of hardware that bears the seal of Newton's falling
+fruit.
+Yet I start to wonder, is that still absolutely necessary?
+To answer this question, let us look back to the state of the technological landscape
+back in those times.
+All had just released Tiger, bringing some sense of stability and usability to the fairly
+new 10th iteration of their operating system.
+Where OS 1-9 still leaned heavily on its Xerox roots, OS X stood on the shoulders of
+a PSD kernel and offered a clean but fairly customizable interface for us to utilize.
+Windows, on the other hand, had just delivered its long overdue baby called Vista.
+And even though the entire industry considered it to be a miscarriage, still decided to release
+its fledgling into the world.
+The Linux Wars were still raging in full force, as different factions of the Debian and
+Red Hat Caps fought in a pyro-classic flame war on the news groups, incinerating each
+of those arguments and scorching any newbie who dared to come close with a novice question.
+In that landscape, Apple was truly a shining beacon of productivity with its eye-life and
+eye-work suite, its slick hardware and elegant operating system, its fancy MP3 player and its
+endorsement by the graphic and intellectualist society that this was the way to go.
+But today, it's perhaps a different story.
+The one thing that has dramatically changed is Apple's focus.
+For me, the first sign was its infatuation with the iPhone and the mobile market.
+Probably to be considered Apple's most popular and profitable product of all time, the iPhone
+has also changed the very DNA of its maker.
+Apple used to be about creativity, and I emphasized on the word create.
+Want to write a novel, get a Mac.
+Want to get into graphic design, get a Mac.
+Want to call your mom or play a game where you throw birds at blocks.
+Get a Mac?
+Sorry?
+What?
+Indeed.
+Back then, the core focus of Apple was not aimed towards entertainment or communication,
+at least not until the iPhone came along.
+And in those days, since Steve Jobs picked that magical device from its pocket, Apple
+has changed considerably.
+As I looked around the workspaces of my friends who did graphic design, I saw their Apple
+workstations age with time.
+The near orgasmic cries of joy that they uttered whenever an update was released diminished,
+with every iteration and turned into small grunts of frustration, as the upgrade to their
+shiny silver tower was once again postponed.
+But for the rest of us grunts, Apple still had something to offer.
+Beary a hardware and a powerful operating system.
+But the decay of the latter started to show its flatulent underbelly with the arrival
+of snow leopard.
+In this period of IOSifying, the operating system, certain power features got hidden away
+in favor of some iOS-like enhancement that were supposed to bridge both operating system.
+In essence, OSX was getting dumbed down.
+Oh well, if you're a slider and don't like a certain kind of operating system, you
+just dual boot a second operating system onto Apple's superior hardware, right?
+As long as that hardware remains superior, there is no problem.
+But a sign from the fact that Apple's innovation curve on its desktop and laptop platform
+was becoming an exceedingly flatter slope, its prices continued to keep the same high standards.
+As the competition, Samsung Acer Aces, caught up with equally fancy ultrabooks at an equally
+fancy price, Apple decided it would be a good idea to remove all of the removable parts
+from its hardware.
+The new iMacs got glued shut.
+The MacBook Pros had no use replaceable parts.
+The power users started to lose the one thing they had over the Apple experience.
+Control.
+So, do I still buy the Cupertino Patti line when I'm out shopping for a new computer?
+I used to say, of course, but that started to change.
+Advising a friend of mine, an aspiring power user on a new laptop yesterday, I heard
+myself utter the words Aces and Linux in one single sentence.
+The request that queried this answer was one motivated by the option of control, being
+able to do stuff with the hardware you can do stuff with.
+As many flavors of Linux start to mature, Apple is not the default answer anymore, not
+even for the creative mind.
+And if you are on a budget and would like to add your own sticks of RAM or an SSD drive
+to the polished silver of Cupertino, well with the latest model, that is no longer the
+default way to go.
+What it comes down to is that there are no certainties in the computer industry.
+With the ever faster pace of digital evolution, today's masters of the industry become tomorrow
+outcasts.
+Where the outcasts became the underdogs and the underdogs become the new heroes.
+In a couple of years time, I've seen companies and technologies fade to the background,
+step back up to the plate and embrace, and be embraced or rejected by the ever growing
+crowd of consumers.
+In the end, Apple has not lost its shine, but it is no longer the company it was when
+I crawled out of the shades of oblivion called Microsoft.
+It is no longer the underdog, but neither is it the prettiest girl at the ball.
+Microsoft is no longer the corporate suit, and Linux seems to have trimmed its wildest
+beard and nose hairs.
+Everybody loses some shine and everybody gains some.
+The great thing about this is that there are no longer default answers to standard question.
+And if the default resides, the power of choice arises.
+Tired of choosing between NAS, Linux, and OSX, listen to the NightWives.com podcast,
+and learn how to decide from operating systems to operating systems using our hack tips and
+tweets for cross-platform geeks.
+To tech into your way of life and let technology work for you instead of the other way around.
+www.kniGHTWISE.com
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