Applespider said:
And think what a pleasant surprise iTunes on the Mac will be to them - amongst many others.
I had the 'misfortune' to play with iTunes on the PC for a colleague at work last week and, although it worked, it just wasn't the same...
I have a PC and recently bought a Mac mini and I find that iTunes is surprisingly the same on both platforms. I actually miss the system tray icon and having the controls dock in the taskbar, but the mini player works just as well in OS X.
I am not a "switcher" as I will always have PCs around, but I am VERY happy to own a Mac too. I guess that makes me an "adder". My iPod was part of the reason for my Mac mini purchase, but not completely. I suppose the "halo effect" influenced me. I also recently got a digital camera (Canon Powershot A95) and I had been wanting to play with iLife and learn OS X just for variety. I had used Macs back in college a bit too and had used iTunes v1 and v2. I have never used OS X prior to own my Mac mini it was always OS 8 and 9 and I still used PCs more than Macs back then, so I am not completely unfamiliar with Macs.
Here's some initial thoughts from a Windows power-user:
1. Apple's designs are awesome.
2. Expose rocks!
3. The tight integration between OS X and Apple's core applications is nice. (e.g. I add someone to Address Book and their full name and picture from my Address Book show up in my iChat Buddy List)
4. Although I always bashed Apple for the one-button mouse, after a few days of heavy OS X use I am a bit more understanding as right-clicking is not needed as much using OS X as it is for using Windows. I find myself right-clicking on everthing out of habit to find more options. Sometimes I find things, but often times I don't. It's a little like being in the Twilight Zone. I still think they should offer a two-button mouse and I am not budging on the scroll wheel - Apple what are you thinking? Browse the web without a scroll wheel?!?!
5. I like Windows networking/file sharing better than OS X's.
6. iLife is amazing. I use iTunes all the time of course and I've started using iPhoto with my digital camera and made a couple slideshows, added background music, exported to .mov. Very nice! Makes me want to go out and buy a digital video camera just so I can play with iMovie and iDVD.
7. Windows Explorer seems more responsive than Finder, but Finder crashes less - but it does crash.
8. Syncing contacts, calendar items, to do items with my iPod is nice. iSync is much nicer than iPod Agent on the PC, especially because I never liked using Outlook. Now Sprint just needs to get their act together and offer more phones that work with iSync.
9. I prefer Firefox on Windows, but Firefox on OS X is still better than Safari. Safari has a great interface but loads/renders too slow.
10. I really like Mail. I never cared for Outlook for personal use (I think it is great for businesses, I use it at work). I even like Mail better than Thunderbird on the PC, which was impressive, IMO.
11. I miss Trillian. I love the iChat interface and some of the gimmicky features, but it does haven't enough power-user options. I have had many people recommend AdiumX and I intend to check it out soon, maybe that'll change my mind on Trillian, but Trillian v3 is nice!
I've had the mini less than a week, so we'll see how I feel after getting into a larger portion of the OS X features. I may attempt to move my website (phpBB board with PHP/MySQL) to my mini. Although I've never used Apache and I am VERY familiar with IIS. We'll see, I'm enjoying it so far though. Thanks for the Kool-Aid Steve!
