OSX-8 Mountain Lion, iOS6, and General Mac Discussion
From the iOS Mountain Lion info page:
"Game Center will be expanded to include Mac games, and will also allow for those games to appear on TV screens thanks to AirPlay. Startlingly, it appears that iOS games will be playable on your Mac. The point here is to make your gaming experience as seamless as possible."
**** yes.
Also, Mountain Lion will cost $19.99 and does not require Lion to upgrade.
$20 allows me to integrate all my phone apps to my computer and vice versa (among a ton of other things)? ABOUT DARN TIME APPLE.
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"Game Center will be expanded to include Mac games, and will also allow for those games to appear on TV screens thanks to AirPlay. Startlingly, it appears that iOS games will be playable on your Mac. The point here is to make your gaming experience as seamless as possible."
**** yes.
Also, Mountain Lion will cost $19.99 and does not require Lion to upgrade.
$20 allows me to integrate all my phone apps to my computer and vice versa (among a ton of other things)? ABOUT DARN TIME APPLE.
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Chicken. Nuggets.
From a dogs point of view anyway. :-P
On the topic at hand though, the app integration sounds awesome. It's almost certainly a response to the cross platform capabilities of windows 8 though.
I'm not a big fan of apple though. My iPod was bought new two and a half years ago. It is now three operating systems out of date. It's a 2nd Gen touch, which I thought was 3rd Gen because they all look the same, and were on sale at the same time. Turns out 3rd Gen was only 16Gb and above. So yeah, my iPod doesn't run most of the really cool games that've come out in the past year/year and a half. I didn't expect support for ever, but even a year after purchase would have been nice. Also, apple got super rich by pinching everyone else's ideas and marketing them as brand new. And then suing everything that moves. And their buzz words annoy me. Retina is just HD (I've seen the new iPad, and the display didn't look much better than on my Asus transformer, which was out over a year ago!). Airplay is just Bluetooth.
Rant over.
Granted, progress is progress and everybody needs to keep pace with their competitor's new features, but nobody is going to act as though those people are innovating unless it's Apple that does it.
Long story short, the cheapest PC plus the integration software I would use (JAWS) would be more expensive than most Mac computers that come with the equivalent of JAWS standard. Normally, JAWS would be free (that is, paid for by Big Gov't), but I'm juuuuuust out of their range of blind enough to receive their support, but not sighted enough to do the important stuff like drive. So I go Mac.
The new features for iOS 6, the ones people are excited about, already exist in some form in ICS(a couple admittedly through third-party applications), and major Jelly Bean announcements are likely hitting later this month at Google I/O. I'm not entirely sure why people who aren't in a very specific set of circumstances are crowding around this device and treating it as a cultural zeitgeist, it's interesting purely from a psychological and cultural standpoint.
I also like Mac laptops more for their compact nature, the ability to instantly back up all files, the ability to easily partition the hard drive and run an addition OS on the same machine, the fact that the hard drive shuts down when the computer falls at the speed of gravity, and the magnetic power cord (so that when someone trips over the power cord, the cord unplugs instead of dragging your computer off the table).
I can understand why many people may find that this doesn't compensate for the large pricetag, but I have gradually found these things to be essential for me to enjoy my laptop. And it's served me well for four years. I'll probably keep it for awhile yet (though maybe with a few upgrades. Got my eye on a new hard drive and some more RAM).
And, of course, my two PCs are brilliant. But I can't take them upstairs and read comics on them while in bed, so their relative value decreases slightly.