Motuka wrote:Photoshop is terrible on OSX. Eats memory like a pig, crashes, et cetera. I suspect that's Adobe's problem, though, not Apple's.
This. The only reason Adobe is still around is because they are so diverse that a single disaster, like the Flash 10.2 hardware acceleration debacle, can't take them out. If only we could find a way around the need for their ubiquitous products...
On topic, Apple is like the Borg. They assimilate technology from others. Aside from a few small things, they don't research at all.
BUT, the reason people buy Apple products is because Apple combines the technologies like a 5-star chef. A little of this, not to much of that, and presto, an iProduct. The key with Apple isn't innovation, it's implementation. This is were their industrial design comes in. People buy macs because the look good and preform to expectations. They aren't tech-types and so therefore don't really need to know their machine's specs, only if it will run TF2 and Pro Tools 9. That's why there are websites like sytemrequiremnetslab.com.
Apple is a good company, Steve sometimes acts like Don Corleone, but he follows through on his promises of security and functionality as if his last name were Lannister.
That much being said, I'm writing this on a homebrew PC I built myself almost exclusively out of parts from Newegg and Tiger Direct. I don't own any iProducts personally, I admire the design but it's too rich for my wallet.
