Turns Out, Apple's Much More Fashion Than Function
– by Bill Mahoney
A corporate study finds that “NEW” features to Apple's iPad OS released this month are *“Old, taken-for-granted and in fact, *EXPECTED features on standard everyday Windows PC's and tablets*”*.
The report which details technology literacy amongst the American public continues, *“Apple's iPad computer, and even iPhone user's are *still so far behind the pack and so uninformed about current technology that they falsely believe their Apple product is cutting-edge when, in fact, the product's sluggish performance and limited feature-set are more reminiscent of the stone age 1980's, before features such as cut & paste were commonplace.”
For example, with the new iPad OS upgrade, iPad owners can NOW search for text within a webpage, something Windows PC users could do since the introduction of Windows in 1995, that's 16 years ago.Click to Expand and Read More...
Yes, you read that right. If you're a PC user you're shaking your head and have probably just said aloud, "What? Apple iPad and Mac users can't search within a webpage for a word? Are you kidding?"
Both Apple and PC users are completely unaware of the limitations of a Mac or iPad or iPhone because PC users just assume that the features they consider basic bare minimums are, of course, also present in Apple's computer products.
They're not.
Loyal Apple users have no idea the functionality is missing from their Apple product because they will only buy or touch Apple products.
PC users have no idea of all the missing functionality of Apple computers because they don't use Macs. But, they always give the benefit of the doubt, assuming that Macs have at least the same functionality as PC's.
They don't.
While many a Mac user will go to the trouble to install special hardware & software so that they can emulate a PC and run Windows programs on their Mac, the opposite is not true in the PC world.
No one takes a perfectly good PC and modifies it to be Mac-like. For one thing, removing USB ports, slowing down the microprocessor and RAM, and making most printers and monitors "simply not work" are not easy tasks. Not to mention turning off multi-tasking, installing an uncomfortable keyboard; And just how do you modify a machine to run as hot as a Mac?
How do you modify a Mac computer to cook an egg on the surface of the cabinet? That's a trick question, you don't have to modify it.