Re: Mac advocacy again: Springer changes to Mac

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Steve de Mena <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Mike wrote:
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Mike wrote:
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Timberwoof wrote:
In article <baidnd-wU5XcKPPVnZ2dnUVZ_hKdnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Steve de Mena <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Dave Fritzinger wrote:
Here's a bit of Mac advocacy for the US Independence Day.

http://tinyurl.com/68ajad

From the article:

In a YouTube video, posted below the fold, CEO Mathias Döpfner
lists
four reasons for the change:

Most of the company¹s layout work was already being done on Macs
Macs are more user friendly than other computers
Apple creates the most elegant computers
Macs are cheaper to buy and easier to maintain than they were in
the
past
--
Dave Fritzinger
Honolulu, HI
It also said they'll be running OS X, Windows Vista and Windows XP
on
these machines, so basically they have just added an additonal OS to
support.

"Apple creates the most elegant computers". Wow, I'm glad he's not
the CEO of my company.
Wow, I'm glad I'm not working for your. Springer Verlag is a
publishing
company. That means they make books and magazines. That is an
industry
in which elegance should be valued. If I had a staff of imaginative,
creative people, I'd rather inspire them with an elegant work
environment, including their computers, than pen them up in a drab
cube
farm with Windows.
They're going to be using Windows too. Just on Macs.

I don't see the business justification spending more on tools
(computer hardware) just because of their looks. I wonder what
percentage of their employees are actually involved in the
"imaginative, creative" stuff you imagine, and how many are in routine
HR, finance, IT, Sales/Distribution, types of jobs.

Steve
I suppose one might just say from your comments you're just not a
"creative type" who appreciates the work environment as well as the
tools they work with.

Have you ever been around "creatives" in the process of their work to
see how "ideas", the guts of an ad, layout come together? I'd be will
ing to think you like drab, period.
I worked for years in a radio station, choosing the music played,
producing programs, etc.
Steve, that's not what is considered "creative" work and you don't need
a computer to do it either, other than to keep a file list of the
content available.
We cataloged all our recordings on the computer and did all our music
programming with a computer database program I wrote. You don't
consider choosing the music that is played on the air "creative" work,
or "content"? Plus writing all on-air scripts, press releases, etc?

No Steve, you're not a "content creator" but a content player and you're
a programmer. More a math guy than a creative. Lots of folks can choose
what is good music to play or listen to, creating it on the other hand
is a different bailiwick.

This was classical music and there most certainly was creativity.

Not really. Picking which music to play doesn't *create* much.

--
"The iPhone doesn't have a speaker phone" -- "I checked very carefully" --
"I checked Apple's web pages" -- Edwin on the iPhone
"It is Mac OS X, not BSD.' -- 'From Mac OS to BSD Unix." -- "It's BSD Unix with Apple's APIs and GUI on top of it' -- 'nothing but BSD Unix' (Edwin on Mac OS X)
'[The IBM PC] could boot multiple OS, such as DOS, C/PM, GEM, etc.' --
'I claimed nothing about GEM other than it was available software for the
IBM PC. (Edwin on GEM)
'Solaris is just a marketing rename of Sun OS.' -- 'Sun OS is not included
on the timeline of Solaris because it's a different OS.' (Edwin on Sun)
.

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