If your 'Winblows' machine crashes then you are probably just inept. I have easily gotten 200+ day uptimes on my Windows, OS X, and Slackware desktops. Barring power failures, the odd kernel recompile / software update, and reformats, I'd never have to reboot. And that is because I treat my machines nicely (to an extent...) I have, however, seen people that have the ability to make nearly any machine unstable.
Plus, OS X has odd ways of handling things that it does not expect. I keep a really fun piece of hardware in a cabinet by my desk: A PS/2 to USB adaptor for a keyboard. Plug a PS/2 mouse into it, then plug it into a Mac, and it will hard freeze instantly. I've tested it on a good range of machines from Apple's first with USB ports up to Intel iMacs and things. My Linux machine didn't do anything at all (the thing didn't show up on lsusb,) and my Windows machine actually let me use the mouse.
Also that 'errata' source is most likely just because the number of mailing lists and forums involved is too great to enumerate.
@Whomever said that OS X is the buggiest whichever in the where:
It clearly isn't. It is just the most irritating. My list of reasons for wishing that one day my department will replace all the Macs that I support with PCs is immense. And it is far shorter than the one filled with reasons that I'd really rather not use one personally.
@Appropriate Person:
Windows Mobile is crap, and everyone knows it. The reason that your stab at an insult is worthless is that we never claimed that it was reliable or secure. Hell Microsoft probably hasn't even made bold claims to that effect, since people tend to watch their marketing and get them in trouble for the really blatant lies.
@Linux fans
We all know that running Linux on a device that isn't designed to do so is a pain, and it never ends up working. People have been working (not sure how dilligently) for years to get Linux running on devices that previously used PalmOS. Even on the devices that are 'well supported' not much but the essential hardware will work at all. You think that a bluetooth driver for whatever hardware lives in the iPhone will be easy to come by in Linux? Maybe, if you're really really lucky. But then wifi? From what I've been hearing, it sounds as if the phone functions of the device are controlled by the OS - try redoing that in Linux. Installing Linux on it would likely just cripple the device, though it would have at least a slight 'neat factor.' A device that was built to run Linux, however, would be pretty sweet... Especially if it allowed you to run whichever WM you chose.
Of course this thing is a fad/trend/lemming attractor. If I was going to sell something, I would rather that it be immensly popular with the underintelligent and overwallet crowd, rather than rational thinking people with good taste - there are just a lot more morons out there. Apple has hit the sheep market dead on, and thats great for them. The only thing that pisses me off about it is that the fanboys think that they're special, and they really like to try to convince me of the truth of that. Not much I like less than to be talked at by a righteous idiot.
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If your 'Winblows' machine crashes then you are probably just inept. I have easily gotten 200+ day uptimes on my Windows, OS X, and Slackware desktops. Barring power failures, the odd kernel recompile / software update, and reformats, I'd never have to reboot. And that is because I treat my machines nicely (to an extent...) I have, however, seen people that have the ability to make nearly any machine unstable.
Plus, OS X has odd ways of handling things that it does not expect. I keep a really fun piece of hardware in a cabinet by my desk: A PS/2 to USB adaptor for a keyboard. Plug a PS/2 mouse into it, then plug it into a Mac, and it will hard freeze instantly. I've tested it on a good range of machines from Apple's first with USB ports up to Intel iMacs and things. My Linux machine didn't do anything at all (the thing didn't show up on lsusb,) and my Windows machine actually let me use the mouse.
Also that 'errata' source is most likely just because the number of mailing lists and forums involved is too great to enumerate.
@Whomever said that OS X is the buggiest whichever in the where:
It clearly isn't. It is just the most irritating. My list of reasons for wishing that one day my department will replace all the Macs that I support with PCs is immense. And it is far shorter than the one filled with reasons that I'd really rather not use one personally.
@Appropriate Person:
Windows Mobile is crap, and everyone knows it. The reason that your stab at an insult is worthless is that we never claimed that it was reliable or secure. Hell Microsoft probably hasn't even made bold claims to that effect, since people tend to watch their marketing and get them in trouble for the really blatant lies.
@Linux fans
We all know that running Linux on a device that isn't designed to do so is a pain, and it never ends up working. People have been working (not sure how dilligently) for years to get Linux running on devices that previously used PalmOS. Even on the devices that are 'well supported' not much but the essential hardware will work at all. You think that a bluetooth driver for whatever hardware lives in the iPhone will be easy to come by in Linux? Maybe, if you're really really lucky. But then wifi? From what I've been hearing, it sounds as if the phone functions of the device are controlled by the OS - try redoing that in Linux. Installing Linux on it would likely just cripple the device, though it would have at least a slight 'neat factor.' A device that was built to run Linux, however, would be pretty sweet... Especially if it allowed you to run whichever WM you chose.
Of course this thing is a fad/trend/lemming attractor. If I was going to sell something, I would rather that it be immensly popular with the underintelligent and overwallet crowd, rather than rational thinking people with good taste - there are just a lot more morons out there. Apple has hit the sheep market dead on, and thats great for them. The only thing that pisses me off about it is that the fanboys think that they're special, and they really like to try to convince me of the truth of that. Not much I like less than to be talked at by a righteous idiot.