The non-hostile Apple OSX vs. Windows Vista OS debate, Part I
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I invited four geeks, representing both sides of the OS aisle. First is Fred Davis, co-founder of Wired Magazine. Second is Harry McCracken, editor in chief of PC World. Third is Sam Levin, founder of Stanford Mac User Group, among other Mac things. Fourth is Jeremy Toeman who worked at Sling Media when I first met him.
Maryam (my wife) and I fed the group burritos and then kicked off the debate. We recorded two hours of this (this segment is the first hour — second installment here), no demos, so you can run it in the background and listen to it. Special prize (our undying respect) goes to anyone who watches all two hours of this.
Tags: Fred Davis, Wired Magazine, Harry McCracken, PC World, Sam Levin, Stanford Mac User Group, Jeremy Toeman, Sling Media, Maryam
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January 31st, 2007 at 3:42 am
[…] It’s true. I just finished watching a 2 hour episode of Scoble Show that brought together four panelists (and Robert Scoble) for an informal discussion with the ominous topic of “Apple OS X vs. Windows Vista“. Representing the PC side, was Jeremy Toeman, the former VP of SlingShot. On the Mac side was Sam Levin, who despite his claims that he does not view Apple in a religious way, did his best impression of a Mac zealot (though a rational one, if that makes any sense). Fred Davis, who co-founded Wired Magazine, seemed to be the voice of reason, advocating for both OS X and Windows and acknowledging the strengths and weaknesses of both platforms. Harry McCracken, the editor of PC World magazine, was also there on the PC side, but he seemed rather uncomfortable and was very quiet (he also had to leave near the end of the first hour). Scoble himself chimed in often, but mostly to offer his opinions on what he’d like to see, not what was already there, or to clarify some obscure point of Microsoft history. This was a great group and stimulated some really interesting discussion that stayed civil and enjoyable. […]
January 31st, 2007 at 6:11 am
Nice relaxed debate. Quite informative if you just leave the video running and do your mail. Kudos to Robert for getting such well known guests..must be one hell of a burrito
January 31st, 2007 at 4:08 pm
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February 1st, 2007 at 1:52 pm
[…] Egowebben fortsätter att överträffa mitt lilla bloggkliv. Idag såg jag “The Scroble show”. Ett gäng medelålders män som sitter och diskuterar Windows vs. OS X. Mycket underhållande och mycket ego att ha sin egen “sitcom”. Precis som med statistikmannen blev jag väldigt inspirerad att utöka mitt egowebbande. Men egentligen tycker jag att Dygnet runt ska ha en webb-sitcom där de bjuder in intressanta malmöiter och andra på genomresa. Emma/Gustav/Björn ni better hurry up annars tipsar jag Måns och de andra norrbaggarna på Allt om Malmö istället. […]
February 9th, 2007 at 10:45 pm
After watching this, I kind of came to the conclusion that it doesn’t matter who started it, it matters who runs with it. So for example all the copying of eachother shouldn’t be so over argued. If apple started it, great. But if windows perfects it, better. I’m an apple fan. Loving my MacBook. There are some things INCLUDED with the mac that some PC’s seem to never be able to achieve, but there are things on PC’s that macs don’t have that capability (or desire-haha) to do. I think the mac runs the pc over…by 75%.
February 15th, 2007 at 12:11 pm
So obvious that when Mac zealots are in an environment of semi-good PC guys, they tend to say nothing….
March 20th, 2007 at 7:29 am
I’m installing Vista presently onto my P4 2.6GHz machine alongside XP. I can’t wait to see what Redmond has been up to, it sure had taken a while. In the meantime, it looks as if Apple will be poised to release 10.5 before this actually sees daylight (in any mass-adoption sense). The next iteration of OS X looks to have some amazing things built in. Microsoft just keeps trying to catch up, in my opinion.
March 28th, 2007 at 9:10 am
Vista still has all the games and applications people use, most not available on any version of OS X.
April 2nd, 2007 at 4:50 am
[…] I was watching Scoble’s Apple vs Microsoft video debate, which was non-hostile and informative and started to wonder on how great a conversation like that would be at say MIX07? […]
April 15th, 2007 at 10:53 pm
I felt that a lot of the features of Mac OS X that differentiate it from Windows were barely discussed as to which one worked better. Like the dock vs. the start menu, expose vs. the taskbar. Or expose vs. the aero feature in Vista. The discussion seemed to be more about the history and the future of computers and the two major companies than about the Operating Systems.
May 3rd, 2007 at 7:56 am
[…] Harry, would love to talk with you! The top story on TechMeme this morning is that PC World Editor, Harry McCracken, resigned his job yesterday cause his boss wanted to be nicer to advertisers and wanted to kill a story he did on Apple. I like Harry a lot. He was in my living room a few months ago during a debate about OSX vs. Vista. […]