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Listed below are comments made by twelveightyone between Wednesday, 2nd September 2009 and Wednesday, 21st October 2009.

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A week with Windows 4:21pm on 21 Oct 2009 "To be fair Apple profits are probably from the iPhone/iPod side of the business, there might be a record number of Macs sold but that is because the computer market share for Apple is pretty low."

It's amazing how many people guess at facts to support their story.

Probably? PROBABLY? So you don't know then. Here's a clue;

Apple sold 3.05 million Macintosh computers during the last quarter, representing a 17% unit increase over the year-ago quarter. The Company sold 10.2 million iPods during the quarter, representing an 8% unit decline from the year-ago quarter. Apple sold 7.4 million iPhones in the quarter, representing 7% unit growth over the year-ago quarter.

17% increase in Mac sales. But just keep telling yourself that their profits are 'probably' from the iPhone, certainly not the iPod, which saw an 8% decline, largely due to the increased iPhone sales.
A week with Windows 1:07pm on 21 Oct 2009 ""Slows down over time". I quite like having an Operating System that is targetted by so many developers"

Unfortunately most of those developers are busy writing key loggers, trojans and viruses. Targetted (sic) is quite an apt word.

Nice try though ;-)

"When OSX gets more than 4% market share maybe it might see a thriving developer community too ?"

Sorry, I must be imagining the 246 Apps in my Applications folder.

Next!
A week with Windows 1:04pm on 21 Oct 2009 "You don't just click start you click start and then press the shutdown button."

Funniest. Comment. Ever. Thanks for 'clarifying' that!

"Techies like yourself need to get over their "nerdyness" and realise that for most people Windows works fine"

That's exactly the problem. Windows doesn't just work "fine". It slows down. Gets infected. Needs to be reinstalled. Needs yearly subscriptions to anti-virus (yeh yeh I know AVG is free, but most people get upsold Norton or similar when they buy their 'bargain' PC).
A week with Windows 12:58pm on 21 Oct 2009 @tenorwoody85,

If you need the problems with the Registry explaining to you, then it's really not worth the effort. I have many years experience with Windows and if you don't understand the shortcomings of the Registry, please do not embarrass yourself by asking why it is so bad.

And FYI, I made no comparisons with OS X, you brought that into the discussion.

Plist files are nothing like the Registry, they are simply user specific preferences.

"Personally I like how everything in Windows is on 1 bar (on whatever side of the screen i choose) as opposed to OSX with its 2 bars, 1 of which must stay at the top..."

Fine. You are happy with it, I'm really pleased for you.

Anyway, this is all arbitrary - let's look at the bare facts;
Apple - record profits, record number of Macs sold, totally bucking the trend.
Microsoft - well let's just say if Windows 7 fails to impress the great unwashed, it will be the beginning of their end. After all, every other market they enter, they are making a loss. Their monopoly with Windows/Office is the only thing keeping them profitable.
A week with Windows 11:25am on 21 Oct 2009 Same old Windows. Same old problems;

Still requires anti-virus.
Still has a Registry.
Still need to click 'Start' to shut it down.
Still slows down over time.
Still has a myopic file structure that makes no sense, even to techies like me.

But hey, it comes pre-installed on a £399 PC, so it's worth it. Right?

In a world without walls, you don't need Windows.
Palm Pre and O2 - a marriage of convenience 9:32pm on 15 Oct 2009 @Mark_MWFC,

"Your comment would be true if the Nokia 5800 wasn't the biggest selling smartphone in the UK, not the iPhone. Don't confuse hype with dominance."

That's a very bold statement young man, do you have any proof to back up your claim?
A big match for Broadband Britain 4:53pm on 07 Oct 2009 I just tested the video on my 24" monitor. Quality is complete garbage. The ball is so pixelated you can't make out where it is.

And for £4.99 I'd be expecting H.264 or something similar. This is just quite sad really.

I might wait until match day and pay over 100% more...
Who wins from an Orange iPhone? 1:10pm on 28 Sep 2009 I can't believe I'm the first to say this...

Apple on Orange

I thought that'd be your headline Rory :-)
Will you pay for a Digital Britain? 7:20pm on 23 Sep 2009 I am paying for Digital Britain. I pay £25 per month for my broadband access.

Anymore is daylight robbery.
What makes a tech story? 11:29am on 02 Sep 2009 I feel some article are really lacking in substance. For me, Snow Leopard is a major leap forward - Grand Central Dispatch, Open CL, 64 bit, these are all massive core improvements that will benefit developers as much as end users, however your video review of the software mostly talks about speed (no problems there, but you only need to say "it's much faster") and bemoans 'no new features'.

The new features are there, they're just not apparent, and they shouldn't be - that's the point of Snow Leopard - refinement.

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