Cult of Mac: a blog about the Mac, the iPod, the iPhone - and the people who love them

26 comments

Oh boy, this site is an apple cult. Using words like ‘reinvent’ and ‘revolutionise’ makes you look like rabid fanboys

nabil2199, on November 19th, 2009 at 4:04 pm

Touch was the point of Android. Chrome OS is to sure up the WIMP OS market. I think Google’s got their bases covered.

copjon, on November 19th, 2009 at 4:07 pm

Android, not Chrome OS, is the touchscreen device OS (primarily mobile devices, as you mentioned).

Peter Kasting, on November 19th, 2009 at 4:15 pm

Oh boy, you just wait until an outage hits the Google cloud (it has before) and people realize their 100% cloud computing experience is gone for a few precious hours and watch the revolt begin.

Onslaught, on November 19th, 2009 at 4:20 pm

We are rabid fanboys!!!

Andrew Macdonald, on November 19th, 2009 at 4:21 pm

“Oh boy, this site is an apple cult”

Man, who’d have thought that from a website called CULT of MAC?

Otherwise, I second Mr. Onslaught: reliance on cloud data = bad.

Craig Grannell, on November 19th, 2009 at 4:32 pm

You really think that Google has no plan for touch screens? Is that the best you could come up with?

Mikey, on November 19th, 2009 at 4:34 pm

I love macs, but I really don’t see Apple doing a tablet anytime soon. I’m not saying they won’t but I recommend a wait and see. I just hope if it does come out the price isn’t too high.

phil, on November 19th, 2009 at 4:35 pm

“Oh boy, you just wait until an outage hits the Google cloud (it has before) and people realize their 100% cloud computing experience is gone for a few precious hours and watch the revolt begin.” Onslaught

I agree, 100% cloud data seems a bit shaky. If they’re smart they’ll do something with gears to make sure you have offline apps and data so that when service is down you’re not trying to log into a brick.

copjon, on November 19th, 2009 at 4:37 pm

maybe they decided to keep android as the touch screen OS even if it is a mobile platform. It runs on netbooks, not well but still maybe it makes sense to the big G to only have one touch screen platform in the works

Dkatri, on November 19th, 2009 at 5:33 pm

Then there are some of us that occasionally leave WiFi or cell tower range. How useful will a netbook be if you can’t use it at the cabin, rest stop, in the air or some other random place where you can’t get a signal?

Quill, on November 19th, 2009 at 5:45 pm

I completely agree with Quill!

Sayam Aggarwal, on November 19th, 2009 at 6:02 pm

pff, so cheap and so 1985′, chrome os is juts for you’re cheap browsing habits on the toilet or you couch potato people, all real work will still be done on real os’es and real machine’s
nevertheless I would love apple’s ‘chrome’os come the tablet for my own couch pleasure lol, come on Steve, you know you can give me something betta to browse my tv guide and chat with my grand ma

jj, on November 19th, 2009 at 6:13 pm

I think the whole OS looks pretty old school, and un-scaleable to boot.

You have apps, which are browser tabs, and browser tabs which are also browser tabs. The type of person that spends the majority of their computing time in a browser typically has dozens of tabs or windows open (or both). They’ve allowed for “pinning” apps (which are tabs), as a “special” tab, but only up to five. They then have a “special button,” to show a tab full of other buttons, which are the apps that don’t fit on the pinned tabs or aren’t at the moment open.

All of that is supposed to run on a netbook screen that’s smaller than a mousepad, but not get cluttered? Yeah, right.

No one’s saying anything yet cause it’s kinda like the Emperor’s New Clothes. Once it sinks in a bit and people start to use it, they will see what a heap of crap this is. It’s messy, it’s inconsistent, and above all it’s just not scaleable.

I don’t know what they are smoking over at Google, but let me be the first to say it … other than a third world 100 buck kind of cut-rate computer OS, this is total shite. Anyone who has any resources at all would just use something else.

Gazoobee, on November 19th, 2009 at 8:44 pm

Yeah, gotta say, the knee jerk reaction makes me wonder why I continue coming to this site. It seriously makes me embarrassed to be an Apple user.

Yes, touchscreens are not mentioned. Along with maybe 20 other important aspects, but it’s a two minute video, what the hell do you expect?

It’s like hearing iPhone users talk about how flat-out superior their devices are when compared to Android phones, when it’s obvious that they’ve never handled one. Not saying they’re perfect, but that’s just plain ignorance and bullshit pride.

Personally, as a card carrying Google hater (Google Wave? don’t make me laugh), I’m actually impressed thus far! Simply because it just makes sense and is not some grandiose vision that will never be met. Then again, it’s hard to pass final judgement because THE VIDEO IS TWO MINUTES LONG.

fort90, on November 19th, 2009 at 10:11 pm

If you are interested in alternative, free operating systems don’t forget that Haiku OS has just released version Alpha 1. Really worth checking out, read more here:
http://ninjarabbits.blogspot.com/2009/11/download-haiku-os-alpha-1-release.html

nicholassimon, on November 20th, 2009 at 12:23 am

cloud computing my arse. your data could be backed up to a cloud but if you think most users will compromise speed and privacy to some dodgy new concept most geeks haven’t heard of you have to be kidding yourself. also, an OS in a cloud? why? who actually needs this. This would have been good before laptops (but after the internet so never). Cloud computing in it’s current form of mobile me, windows live, and chrome OS is a joke and very unusable.

saman Jebeli-Javan, on November 20th, 2009 at 4:44 am

correction on my last post – i meant to say most non-geeks havent heard of.

saman Jebeli-Javan, on November 20th, 2009 at 4:45 am

Kahney,
The most polite thing I can reasonably say about this article is that it is the work of a simpleton. In short the work of someone that any self-respecting fool out there would rightly dismiss as a fool. It seems to be your speciality Mr. Kahney to write nonsense. Your books are lightweight re-purposings of things other people covered earlier and did much, much better. This article follows the pattern. Consider.
In your write-ups of the Magic Mouse and the 27″ iMac, you just don’t know where you are coming from and you certainly don’t seem to know where you want to go in your writing. Unfounded, dazed and confused comments that lead nowhere. A waste of reader time. Isn’t that an unforgivable trait in a writer?
Chrome seems to simplify computing and reduce its cost. Like the people at litl.com, but on a broader scale, Google has looked at what most people do with computers, most of the time and they have derived a view as to where this could be led as a trend and they are making plans, and an OS, to nudge things in that direction.
Now, do tell us please, why does a laptop/desktop OS need to cater for touchscreens? Are you a Microsofty all of a sudden? Vertically oriented Touchscreens are an ergonomic disaster. Where it is appropriate, Google has touch very well covered. It could easily be added to Chrome, but what would be the point unless targeted at a tablet format alone? So what IS your problem exactly? What do you know Kahney, that Apple, Google and others have missed in their ergonomic musings and billion dollar research work? Pray, DO TELL us Oh great Sage of UI brilliance. We wait upon your illuminating pronouncements. Not.
As to those who nay say the cloud, you might as well dismiss the whole of the net. No, I thought not. Just weasel words from incompetent wannabes. The net was intended to be bomb-proof and, so far, it has been pretty good that way. Drop even fairly large numbers of nodes but it still works. Why wouldn’t a cloud-based future OS omit to implement (what are by now) proven, no-brainer, fail-safes as well.
Coming back to you again, which is always nice to do, you seem to have a penchant for sounding off about things you just don’t understand. Why, Kahney? Don’t be such a pudding, laddie.
Do the right thing. Think of another career or go on a writing course. Your mileage so far is unimpressive, derivative of others’ superior work and often repurposed without any critical faculties applied and nothing of value added.
Only you would have the lack of imagination to roll out the hockey puck analogy (yet again, yawn) in support of such a mistaken premise.

chano, on November 20th, 2009 at 6:47 am

Correction: Para 5

Why WOULD a cloud-based future OS….

chano, on November 20th, 2009 at 6:54 am

@chano…
Thank you. I think you stated exactly what I was thinking.

skids544, on November 20th, 2009 at 9:15 am

Seems like Apple is busy counting it’s money to do any major innovation. Windows 7 already is fielded with all-in-one touch screen units from Sony and HP. Apple had years to bring a touch screen unit to market with it’s closed system. Apple had better worry about it’s competitors passing them by from the likes of Google. Look what already the Droid can do in navigation and multitasking with lower cost phone plans than iPhone. Apple better start worrying.

Ed Imbier, on November 21st, 2009 at 2:50 pm

The first week of Google Chrome release, I certainly hope a gigantic solar flare interferes with and sporadically blacks out the Internet (if only for a few minutes a few times a day). And then all the Chrome users will realize that their netbooks are utterly worthless stupid paperweights, as they have lost their connections and lifelines, and don’t even have the capability to write simple documents on word processors unless they stay connected 24/7.

Ia Ia cult of Mac!

movado, on November 23rd, 2009 at 8:53 am

>Then there are some of us that occasionally leave WiFi or cell tower range.
>How useful will a netbook be if you can’t use it at the cabin, rest stop, in
>the air or some other random place where you can’t get a signal?

About as useful as Britney Spears? In other words, utterly useless.

bjorntech@squee.org, on November 23rd, 2009 at 8:56 am

Since its all web app based would it have to be part of the OS

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/mobile_demos_fp10.1/popup08.html

Evil Dr Ken, on December 3rd, 2009 at 1:55 pm

I use XP now and I welcome whatever new OS there will come in the future.I am lazy and I would miss some nice programs.Mac are for Macpeople(0 intrest).What I
would like to see is fast assemblerbased OS with aplatform for nice programming-languages like emacslisp, newlisp,euphoria,HLA,Delphi,Mark Up,PHP,SQL where you don´t have to bother about C and its derivates since they have bad garbage collection,they don´t know how to use pointers all these
declarations,all this hype.,and creates unstable programs.Assembler is not DEAD.Lisp is notDEAD. My solution is linux with Menuett OS and why not Chrome OS allthough I prefer to disconnect if I feel like it and still have an OS and I think most people will.Think of it like a prolongation of the browser.That is it.No space,no worry.What I feel about MS and I have experienced I don´t want to express in words. I have acess to Mac sometimes,it seems userfriendly but I will never be dependent of just one brand since I prefer laptops and I will be able to buy the most optimal and priceworthy one. If you are happy mate, i am happy.Clouds.Why not.Try it and delete or keep it or why bother.I live in Europe and if I go abroad internet is a luxory.,so then I will have use of all the free space I have and it can be a nice experience to explore what I can do with my PC disconnected.maybe internetcafe a few times.Have a nice day/night all Mac-users.

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levagastir, on January 6th, 2010 at 8:50 pm

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