Comments on: The sorry state of Apple software on Windows.

By: eduardo

eduardo — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 08:30:20 +0000

I disagree. It has doesn’t have anything to do with “inneficiencies” in windows. Apple just doesn’t work hard enough for the windows versions. And why would they? If they did, then people wouldn’t think about switching to mac. But in a nutshell, it is definitely not the fault of windows. Similarly priced windows PCs run real power intensive programs such as 3D apps/games and folding@home at speeds that leave Macs in the dust

By: Warren

Warren — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:37:33 +0000

Totally agree with the author. I’ve found iTunes too slow on a PC. Takes about an hour to even start. On the Mac it’s up within seconds, and even though memory is allocated almost the same as on the PC, it somehow feels snappier on the Mac (and by snappier I mean much snappier).

Safari on Windows just looks weird for a Windows user. For me, when I’m on windows, if I use anything else I feel out of place.

By: Rajbir Singh

Rajbir Singh — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 12:27:58 +0000

Oh I forgot to add something about Safari. Safari doesn’t render fonts properly on Windows OS on all the three displays I have tried it on. So I gotta aggree with BASboy & Natasha on the Safari issue.

By: Rajbir Singh

Rajbir Singh — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 12:25:48 +0000

To all all those who are saying Windows suck and nobody can write decent software for it or saying that they never had problems with QuickTime: Why Apple doesn't write good software for Windows

By: Natasha

Natasha — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:48:43 +0000

I gotta go with BASboy on the safari front.. I dun like the way it renders my fonts, and there isn’t exactly a dearth of plug-ins (for windows) available to satisfy my needs.. Though i ain’t all too happy with mozilla3 either, so go figure..

By: Whiskey town

Whiskey town — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:55:17 +0000

I totally agree with the author. On every Windows machine I have used iTunes and Quicktime on, my god are they slow. And it’s not only slow when using things like Coverflow. iTunes takes like 20 seconds to startup on my wife’s Lenovo Core 2 Duo notebook, while my MacBook Pro takes just around 2 seconds. Maybe this move is to make PC users feel like they have a slow computer, and since they be upgrading, they’d rather get a Mac to go with their iPhone. Who knows the grand scheme of things…