Microsoft Recruits Former Apple Retail Store Exec for Retail Initiative

[Eidorian]

QFT. Any article posted on engadget that has to do with Apple or Microsoft becomes a breeding ground for anti-Apple comments, generalizations about Apple customers, name calling, and the like. The only thing Microsoft fans have to fall back on is "Mac's cost more." Thats the ONLY argument they have. At least us Apple folk are a little more creative, we have more than a handful of reasons why we think Apple is better. Sure, they might get repeated here a lot, but who cares? Go to Engadget and look at the 1000's of comments about the price of Mac's and how Apple customers are gay/stupid/unprofessional/_______.

So the articles are the base of the anti-Apple comments or is it the user base?

Was it the intention of the writer as well?

 

[uberamd]

So the articles are the base of the anti-Apple comments or is it the user base?

Was it the intention of the writer as well?

The articles draw in the posters. Not the intention of the writer. Its just a MS fanboy slum. Sure, there are lots of Apple fans here, but its MACrumors after all, engadget is not called MicrosoftGadgets is it? We have an excuse, they don't.

 

[Eidorian]

The articles draw in the posters. Not the intention of the writer. Its just a MS fanboy slum. Sure, there are lots of Apple fans here, but its MACrumors after all, engadget is not called MicrosoftGadgets is it? We have an excuse, they don't.

It's getting very tiresome to see the razor thin name games I've seen over the past few days.

 

[AidenShaw]

Out of the top 500 supercomputers in the world, 88.6% runs a UNIX-like system. They truly have a problem. It is true that the *BSDs currently stops at 64 cpus, but as none of the machines in Apples lineup has that many cpus, it's basically a non-issue. The *BSDs can be made to scale easily above and beyond NT. You don't know jack.

Unfortunately, the performance of other UNIX-like systems on the embarrassingly parallel LINPACK benchmark has nothing to do with the performance of threaded applications on OSX. (Or maybe it does - 0% of the Top 500 run OSX....)

If you search for "osx threading problems", you find articles like:

Mac OS X Achilles Heel - "On Mac OS X, performance has plummeted to one quarter of our initial performance, showing that the threads are creating an additional overhead somehow."​

You'll also see that Apple has claimed improved threading performance in many of the OSX releases.

 

[JonJ]

Unfortunately, the performance of other UNIX-like systems on the embarrassingly parallel LINPACK benchmark has nothing to do with the performance of threaded applications on OSX. (Or maybe it does - 0% of the Top 500 run OSX....)

If you search for "osx threading problems", you find articles like:

Mac OS X Achilles Heel - "On Mac OS X, performance has plummeted to one quarter of our initial performance, showing that the threads are creating an additional overhead somehow."​

You'll also see that Apple has claimed improved threading performance in many of the OSX releases.

So, you basically have a problem with OS X' threading, and made that out to be a problem of ALL UNIX because of a 70's design? You good sir, are an idiot. Now, I don't know what's in store for Snow Leopard, but FreeBSD currently scales to 64 CPUS and could probably scale well above. FreeBSD and Mach had horrible threading performance earlier(The article you link to is from 2005), however, this has been mostly mitigated. As far as I'm aware. Do you have any recent articles claiming that OS X' threading performance is that bad?

 

[carmenodie]

They are only doing this to move their sluggish ass stock. Besides, if you have a problem with your pc don't you get routed to a call center in India?
Sony has opened a store in my local mall. Yeah I went inside but it was like going into Best Buy. The workers wear some sort of silver gray long sleeve shirt and there are tons or workers doing nothing but walking around. A sales lady asked me if I needed anything and I could have screamed rape! Why would I want anything! I have a psp and that's all the Sony I have. The Bravias are nice but have you see them Samsungs? Damn! They nice too.

 

[kingtj]

re: Sony Stores

Yep... Same experience I had with Sony Stores. To be honest, we've had them in a couple of our area malls for years, and I've always felt more "repelled" away from going in one than anything else.

I finally ventured into one, only because a girl I was seeing suggested looking around in one, and hey - it beat more standing around while she looked at clothes again. As you said though, there were several expensively-dressed salespeople just standing around with their arms crossed, watching over you while you looked around. My overall impression was "Anything you buy here is going to cost close to full sticker price.", so I couldn't imagine really making a PURCHASE of anything in the place.

We finally wound up playing "Buzz Quiz" trivia, on a demo PS2 they had set up near the back of the store, and before you knew it - 20 or 30 minutes had gone by. I suddenly looked up and realized this Japanese sales guy had been watching us play, and he had this grin on his face, happy that someone was *finally* sticking around in his store, acting like they enjoyed Sony products.

They are only doing this to move their sluggish ass stock. Besides, if you have a problem with your pc don't you get routed to a call center in India?
Sony has opened a store in my local mall. Yeah I went inside but it was like going into Best Buy. The workers wear some sort of silver gray long sleeve shirt and there are tons or workers doing nothing but walking around. A sales lady asked me if I needed anything and I could have screamed rape! Why would I want anything! I have a psp and that's all the Sony I have. The Bravias are nice but have you see them Samsungs? Damn! They nice too.