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Apple might be winning me over....slowly
I think Apple might be wearing me down. So far I haven't really had a reason to invest in a Mac since my professional life is spent developing web applications using ASP.NET and C# (which I enjoy). However, a lot of people I know (both normal people and developers) have switched over to Macs (or at least bought one to use alongside their PC) and we're thinking of buying one for the office so we can actually have a Mac to test our web applications using the real Safari browser (instead of the Mac screenshot services that we currently use).
I also recently watched the Mac OSX "Leopard" video walkthrough of Apple's next version of the OSX operating system. The one feature that stood out for me was the "Time Machine" feature, it just seemed really intuitive, very useful, without feeling like it's "in the way". I'm not sure what the overhead is for that feature (i'm assuming it's gotta be indexing the hard disk constantly, which I assume would affect performance?) but it does look pretty slick.
Also, I gotta say that the iPhone is a sweet product. I don't have an iPhone yet, but I have visited the AT&T store twice and played with them. I just haven't had that event that put me over the edge enough to pay $250 to ditch my current provder (Centennial) and plunk down $400 + 2-year contract with AT&T. However, Apple recently announced that they'll be providing an SDK for the iPhone in February 2008, depending on what that SDK provides, that might be enough to sway me to the Apple/AT&T side of things. I've also heard rumors of the next version of the iPhone that might include GPS and 3G, if that's the case then I don't think I'll be able to resist!
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