Friday, October 7, 2011
There are 3 apples that changed the world
- The apple that Snow White ate.
- The apple that fell on Isaac Newton's head.
- The apple Steve Jobs invented
Steve Jobs' death was the first thing I heard that morning (okay, technically read). After Subuh I was lying on the bed, checking the news (I consider Pulse a news source) and literally, every source on Pulse was flooded with articles about Steve Jobs. I opened facebook and people were updating their status about apple and stuff, I opened the tv, his death was making headlines.....everywhere: Berita terkini, Buletin Utama, Bernama, you name it, everyone's talking about.
Well I initially didn't want to blog about him, I've never actually paid attention to him in the first place. He's on tumblr once a while, but that's just because people were captioning him talking with Bill Gates with this very funny looking smile of them, saying about them being too rich. "Let's flip a coin." ,"flip what?" you know what I'm saying? And Macintosh has this very stylish and elegant graphic interface that I just thought Steve Jobs has very classy and high taste to come up with that design, so when I read an article about him saying that he was very very poor, I'm so shocked that I need to blog about it.
The article was entitled, 9 things you didn't know about Steve Jobs, and really, I wouldn't have guessed any of them. The most shocking fact was that he was adopted, he reunited with his biological mother when he was old enough, but his father was left estranged, and get this, his father is a Muslim, well I'm jumping into conclusions but the name 'Abdulfatah' sounds very Muslim to me, or maybe he's just Arabic, I don't know, he works in a casino to top things off, so...yeah, that's a shocking fact.
And I never knew he was poor. I knew he was a drop out, I never knew he was so poor that he slept on the floor, and walked miles to have free food in a Buddhist temple, which reminds me, I think he's a Buddhist. I haven't read a statement saying his exact religion, but he was married through a monk and judging by the fact that a temple saved him from hunger, he might as well embrace that religion.
And I just realized, most of his speeches and conferences involve him wearing his favorite turtle neck and jeans. (Fashion terrorist much)
I know everybody loves Apple, it's so expensive and so pretty and so different, but that's the thing, it's.... all that. Personally, I'm not too fond of the brand. I mean, people have been using windows for ages, I even remember the days I used Windows 95. Do you remember? Back then the logo looked like this
Lol, classic. Well, the thing is about Windows, is that people are accustomed with it. Nobody takes Computer classes nowadays, and they don't even know what a operating system is, so to a lot of people, using a computer means using windows. What they don't know is that there are other operating systems in the world until Macintosh was created, what people don't realize is how different they are. Isn't that Steve Jobs' motto? 'Think different' and really, using Macintosh is a headache- it's fun, I don't deny it, but you have to learn everything anew, and sometimes file transfer between Mac and Windows is not doable, there will be technical difficulties between these two operating systems, and you don't run things like windows, everything's a bit....foreign.
Let's do a bit of a showdown.
Desktop. I'm gonna vote Mac for this. iMac is amazing, the system unit is small, the utilities are well organized, I've been using Macintosh for a while, so I'm a bit used to the operating system by now, and Windows however, although not bad itself, iMac just crushes it. Mac 1, Windows 0
Notebook. I'm rooting Windows for this. I don't know why desktop and laptop makes any difference when it comes to operating system, but for some odd reason, I don't like my macbook, I've faced a few complications with work because of it, and ironically I want the macbook for work, so it's not actually helping. It's just that Windows is very universal and most of my work involve Windows based applications. When I want to print something, it's not in the right format, when I want to unzip Winrar files, suddenly the unzip utility wouldn't work. When I install a foreign specialized application, it won't auto open as Windows usually do. And Parallels is just not working, I installed Bootcamp for like so many freaking times that I just gave up on it, and to be honest I'm pretty glad my sister took it to Egypt, so now I have space for a new laptop (I'm eyeing Vaio, that neon green C series looks so tempting) Mac 1, Windows 1
Netbook. Macbook Air isn't actually a netbook, but it's smaller than a notebook, and it doesn't have a CD player, I'm just going to categorize it as a netbook. Truth has to be told, Macbook Air is the coolest netbook there is. Although I'm not too fond of it (especially that auto scrolling ability, pergh ai, geram nak campak) but for the sake that it has a higher performing processor, I'm voting Mac. Mac 2, Windows 1
Tablet. Windows haven't exactly released a tablet (yet), so I'm gonna combine Windows with Samsung, since they're the one competing. Well, it's hard to compete the ipad with a galaxy tab, because they both are very different. And I haven't tried using galaxy tab 10.1 (which is the same level as an ipad) but I've gotta say, ipad's boring, like seriously, what do you do? you have to pay for all the cool apps, and wifi is the only internet connection option there is. Everytime you want to play, you'll need to sign up, and the only button you have is the big Home button. Galaxy tab is a far better option. You can put a simcard, make calls, messages, Android apps are way better and a lot of them are free, there are 4 button at the bottom which makes life easier. Everytime I use the ipad, I keep hovering my fingers at the bottom when I want to go 'back', when the virtual button is on top (loser), Samsung it is. Mac 2, Windows/Samsung 2.
Phone. I know everyone loves the iphone (even those who doesn't own it), but personally, all the Samsung Galaxy series are better.I know some of my classmates are gushing over Zaim's iphone, but I play my dad's iphone all the time and the only app I am fond of is Harakah daily (which you can aslo get in the Android market) Seriously, I love Android. Apple is just hard to work with. Mac 2, Windows/Samsung 3.
There you go, Mac loses. This is based on my personal preferences, I admire Steve Jobs as an iconic figure, I'm just not into his work that much.