One mans opinion of Apple's overpriced laptop

[samintx]

http://beta.fool.com/joekurtz/2013/05/05...lnk0000001

It seems he likes the Android/Chrome/Pixel....I'm sure people here are loyal to Apple but does he have some points?

[freeradical]

Rather, the cloud represents a different form of computing entirely -- applications are no longer run on the user’s own PC, but instead, on some distant server.

Didn't people used to telnet into their Unix account?

[Carm]

I would say NO.

[GGD]

freeradical wrote:

Rather, the cloud represents a different form of computing entirely -- applications are no longer run on the user’s own PC, but instead, on some distant server.

Didn't people used to telnet into their Unix account?

And when the system went down, nobody could do any work.

[Chakravartin]

At times, it seems that Motley Fool publishes (contradictory) opinions on anything from anyone who buys the right guy a beer.

[hal]

Chakravartin wrote:
At times, it seems that Motley Fool publishes (contradictory) opinions on anything from anyone who buys the right guy a beer.

They need content - especially for aapl. The more the better... quality is not an issue...

[The UnDoug]

samintx, the article is not about Apple's "overpriced" laptop, it's actually all about how the Google Chromebook is overpriced.

[Mike Johnson]

So the future of laptops is as dumb terminals that rely on Google apps to be productive? Uh huh.

I agree that Google is beating Apple in the battle of the Clouds, and that if Apple doesn't leapfrog them they're in trouble. But Google half-asses 80% of what they do. They introduce new services and abandon them a couple years later. They upgrade their apps to include new features but rarely address longstanding bugs. Maybe they'll start acting like a software company and address user complaints, but I can't count the number of times in the past three or four years that I've torn my hair out over some Google app bug, only to find long discussion threads from other users with the exact same problem.

I wonder if that Fool of an author made the same argument in favor of the Mac platform ten years ago -- "Sure, it's more expensive, and runs only a fraction of the software, but it's really the smarter choice."

[bhaveshp]

Mike Johnson wrote:
But Google half-asses 80% of what they do. They introduce new services and abandon them a couple years later. They upgrade their apps to include new features but rarely address longstanding bugs.

Are you sure you're not talking about Apple there? Hmm... iTools, .mac, Ping all looked to be pretty abandoned. And all software companies, Apple included, prioritize features over bugs at some times.

We've got several MB Airs and a Samsung Chromebook (ARM) in the house. While the Airs are heavily favored, at less than a quarter of the price, we get good use out of the Chromebook.

[ka jowct]

The whole push to take applications out of our hands fills me with dismay. And I don't see how this can work without broadband access for everyone.

I don't want to create and store content remotely.

How long before the "cloud" owns all our original content?