On Tuesday, January 8, 2002, at 05:37 , Jon Glass wrote:
> I think you have to be careful about using personal experience and
> anecdote
> to justify or explain a phenomenon. Your experiences are different from
> others'. My experience with the web on my Newts has been anything but
> satisfactory. My wife's web experience on her mac, while not perfect,
> has
> been extremely reliable. By using experience, we can go around in
> circles
> all day.
In terms of experience on the Newton, I have to admit that I don;t use
it on a regular basis, only when on the road, and it is rather slow. But
I have never had a crash or a freeze. Yes this is just my own experience
and I draw my conclusion also from the overall observed reliability of
the platform.
In terms of experience on desktops I can speak with some authority that
goes beyond anecdotal evidence. I draw conclusion from empirical data
collected about incidents on various platforms in various environments
over years. There is enough data to make this representative and that
data confirms what Gartner Group and other institutions who study this
regularly report: that Windoze is most expensive due to computer down
time and trouble, Mac significantly better, but only Unix really shines.
Further, most Unix environments I have seen had users who didn't even
know that they were working on a Unix workstation, they were not
computer savvy and there was no shell access anyway. What matters is/are
the core application/s they use. Anything else they don't need to have
and don't need to know.
One more reason why Wintel has been popular in corporate environments:
Users who want to play. On Unix systems they are only given access to
what they need to do their job, which is what they are paid for. On
Wintel they can play. I say, if they want to play they should do that
outside the office and out of office hours without using company
resources, but I am old fashioned in this regard and I happen to have
lost quite a lot of money on a few occasions to users playing instead of
working on project deliveries, so I am biased.
rgds
bk
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