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Like nearly everything on this site, The Orchard grew out of a link list. Long before I had a working Mac I occasionally found an interesting Mac-related site and would put the link in a section called "Apple". Most of the links here are about history and background rather than about practical issues.
Ever wonder what it takes to run a three billion dollar a year company like Apple Computer? Cancel theCEO in 21 Dayscorrespondence course you saw Sally Struthers hawking at three in the morning, because you're already qualified. In this week's story we take a long look at Steve Jobs, cofounder of Apple. All it takes is a dream, a little hard work, a couple funky colors, a few friends to take advantage of, and a total lack of decency or compassion and you too could have a computer company just like Steve. Follow along as History House takes a stab at Steve Jobs and Apple Computer.
While this site was partly about advocating Macs, Mac OS X has made it clear that the Mac Way (tm) is dead. The new UNIX/NeXT/Jobs way isn't bad, and I use OS X -- but the idea of putting the user (and User Interface) first is no longer the highest priority at Apple, and Microsoft has improved their offerings to be nearly as good. Quality and support at Apple have gone down, Apple has adopted more "standard" (or sub-standard) technologies, thrown away many of their superior technologies (and some of those people), and PC companies have gotten much better. AIM (Apple, IBM and Motorola) have each had their part in letting the PowerPC lose most of its competitive advantage (at the performance side of things, the power-to-performance is still much better) -- while Intel and AMD have done an amazing job at dragging their anachronistic processors forward. So while I still feel the Mac is better for most users than the PC's, it is not by as much as it used to be -- and it is not by enough to really care. So the philosophy of things has changed and the end result being that I'd rather focus my energies on advocating technology at large, rather than Macs in specific. And that should explain the difference from having a site named after the Power of the Mac Way (Mac Ki Do), versus a site named on advocating technology.
Some of the weirder aspects of the Macintosh world.
The author has been an Apple user since 1984. […] In spite of his loyalty to the platform, he finds most "Mac people" to be tiresome and annoying. He is pretty sure that if he had to attend WWDC or Macworld, he would wind up slapping the shit out of a bunch of people.
My Dad's PC ate my homework.
On 2003-04-09, Google search a for
stoned chick
it still returned
the Ellen Feiss switch ad as the first result. On 2003-10-02, she had
dropped down to second place. Apple took down all the switch ads themselves
on 2003-08-01, the stories stayed up a while longer.
The ten best reasons for switching, according to the German Apple website. Second is that it's Unix based; fifth is Microsoft Office; and I won't comment on the seventh.
Some sites that deal with the PC/Apple conflict from the PC point of view.
And then there is Wintel World, "Your complete anti-PC resource" to which the author added the following interesting
Disclaimer: this page no longer represents my feelings about PCs. I now own a PC, and while it's not as nice as a Mac, it can do more neat tricks :) I just put together a custom system that has twice the amount of everything that I could've got in a Mac for the same price.
As they say, go figure.
