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Ha ha!
Apple and I are more than friends, we are lovers. ;-)
That's why I got exasperated.
But let me tell you one thing: I never loved Apple as much as I do since they released Mac OS X.
I am a developer, so I had to look at the API and study how Mac OS X was structured.
Sincerely, what makes Mac OS X so great is the API (Cocoa) and all the developer tools and API that come with (OpenGL, CoreAudio, ...). However Apple-NeXT did more than just working on that interface, they also made some really good implementation choices and having X11 and all these BSD/*nix tools bundled with the system makes it really great!
When installing a machine on a computer you barely need to install anything else. I mean, if you know how to use bash/tcsh and configure apache, samba, etc. you end-up with a very good and high level server solution.
The version I was referring to in this email was Mac OS X.0 which was very slow. And I was criticizing (trying to) some GUI aspects and features of the Finder from a Mac OS 9 user point of view. But Apple worked a lot and their OS is now the best I know. It was already then the best of general purpose OS in terms of API and unix, but it was slow which made it barely usable. Now Mac OS X is very fast and the GUI keeps improving a lot and so does the API, with a great tradition of innovation at Apple.
In a few words: Jaguar is the first mature release, Panther the second one (rounding edges and making things more uniform) .... but Tiger rocks!!!
To answer you: yes, Apple and I are friends now, and more than ever I do love my Mac and I am proud of it. :-)
Have a good day,
Pierre.
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