Its time for a new blog post and what are we gonna talk about? I’ll tell you what were gonna talk about. PC fanboys on Youtube. Now don’t get me wrong, I’m a major fanboy of Apple myself, I go to great lengths to show the weakness of Microsoft and the power of Apple. As a matter of fact, I’m more than likely the most hated of all mac fanboys on Youtube. But it seems there is a distinct difference between Mac and Pc fanboys. I have never met a mac user that is ashamed of admitting he’s a fanboy, if he is one. Not all Mac users are fanboys, but the ones who are have no trouble admitting it. This don’t seem true for the PC side of things. Every PC user/fanboy i meet on Youtube is just ranting that I suck and PC is better. They cuss and fight just as hard as I do yet they refuse to admit there fanboyism. This hankers back to a point. Deep down inside most pc users are ashamed of there OS. even if they don’t admit it. Deep down they all want macs and I can tell this by the lack of pride associated with Vista and PC fanboys. They think, for some reason, that they are innocent. I never get any real reasons why tey stay with windows besides games. And games isnt a reason to do anything if you ask me. They are forced to revert back to XP, an OS that is older than my daughter. Yet they still clamor to buy a pc. This failure on Microsoft’s behalf, a little thing called Vista, does nothing to persuade them away from Microsoft. Now that my friend, is loyalty. At least we Apple fanboys have something really worth being pround of. And we show it. PC fans on the other hand, don’t. they will fight till the day they die claiming tey are not fanboys. But what else can you call it when you stick to a platform that everyone in the world agrees sucks. And another thing that gets my goat is a mac user who bashers other mac users for being proud of there computer. Several times a mac users has emailed me only to tell me I’m dumb, a liar, or an idiot. So why do they do this? Why do they sit at home a work on there shinny new iMac or Macbook Pro and then hate on me for bashing windows. My question for all those Mac posers is this, if I’m so wrong, why didn’t you buy a winpc?
Its worth remembering that Apple is a hardware company as well as a software company. Fully half of its R&D dollars (research and development) have to go into hardware related innovation, an expense a pure software company like Microsoft doesn’t have to incur. At the same time APple has to keep upgrading its OS. An expense Dell and the like have the luxury to do without. Apple sales are 1/4 of Dells yet its R&D is just as much. Apple has spent up to 8% of sales on R&D. In comparison Dell has only spent a meager 1.5%. Dell hasn’t half the expense Apple does. Why is Apple so innovative? Because they don’t care to spend the money to innovate. You find the money, you find the future.
In 2002, Mac guru Scott Kelby came up with an interesting list of Apple Firsts. These include:*The 3.5″ floppy drive*color graphics *Built-in Networking*Built in wireless LAN* Built-in sound*easy access to the guts*The ability to hook more than one display (Winpc machines didnt have this till 98)*the first PDA (The Newton)*First to pick up USB even though it was a pc invention*FireWire ( this was apples baby)*Elimination of tube based displays*Elimination of internal fans (cube)To this list could be added breakthrus like ”first computer in a box” and the first GUI that was successful. Not including all the iapps. And of course the ipod.
A windows FANATIC from Chicago was asked, one time, why she liked to windows operating system so much. She said she liked the fact that her computer wasn’t full of junk she didn’t need or use. She said she didn’t want 6 million printer drivers on her machine, “clogging things up”. She enjoyed installing just the right printer drivers herself, and having everything work just how she wanted it to. She didn’t like the machine t”thinking” for her. She liked to do it herself even if that meant, because the printer driver that was shipped with the printer is out of date, she had to go online surf, locate, and download the updated one and install it. This struck me as interesting. For one, not all have that kind of common knowledge. My mom for example. Anyway, I used the word FANATIC above. As Mac Chronicler Scott Kelby has pointed out, you often hear the words “Mac Fanatic” but never “Pc Fanatic” it always “pc user”. But thats a little backwards. With some notable exceptions, Mac users are not really fanatical at all about there machines. In fact, some have no interest in how they work. They don’t want to install printer drivers, EVER. The friend in Chicago? She’s the FANATIC.
Less than a mile down the road from Apple headquarters on Bandley Drive in Cupertino, California was Flint Center at De Anza College. A formal unveiling of Apple’s new product at the annual company meeting was scheduled to take place here and Apple hope they had things right. The unveiling was for a computer and it was called “Lisa”, which stood for either “local integrated software architecture,” or for Apples founder Steve Jobs daughter. Or maybe both. The Lisa had been worked on since 1978, when Jobs wanted a computer to replace the Apple II. At the time Jobs saw a machine that would sell for under $2000 and be aimed at business markets. Jobs had high hopes for the machine, which he hoped would raise Apples market share. Then a year later in 1979 fate came calling. Jobs was persuaded to visit Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). The PARC labs have since achieved legendary status as a place of extreme innovation. Jobs was weary though, XEROX more or less invented photocopying and he didn’t feel they had much to contribute in the matter of computers. And its glory days seemed to be behind it. So from Xerox’s side of the table, there seemed to be good reason to cozy up to Apple. Maybe some of the innovations that had been shelfed could get out into teh world. Xerox knew EXACTLY what they were doing. If Apple lived up to its growing buzz than it couldnt hurt to get a little private placement. A deal was struck: Xerox would buy 100,000 shares of Apple stock at $10 a share, and would agree to never buy more than %5 of Apple. In return Apple would get to make 2 reconnaissance trips to PARC. The trips took place in the last two months of 1979. And for Jobs these trips were a revolation. Xerox demonstrated a wonderful machine called the Alto. It had many of the characteristics that computers have today only more primitive. It had a GUI, bitmapping (code writing that allowed the merging of text and images), an input device called a mouse, a networking capability, pop up menus, and moveable windows. Like sheets of paper on a desktop. Most of these things had been sitting around PARC for years. In fact, the Alto was already 6 years old, and the mouse was invented in the 1960′s. The PARC people who wore the white doctor coats had presented all this before to the cooperate big wigs and NONE seen anything of any use or value. But unlike all the other people, Jobs understood EXACTLY what he was seeing: the future of personal computing. Now the only thing is to put them in an attractive affordable package. Can you say Lisa?
Don’t get me wrong, I love Ustream. Hell, I think I was one of the first people to use it of the people in my little youtube group, and I still plan on streaming on weekends, but it seems Ustream overshadowing Youtube. I know a lot of Youtubers that used to commonly post vids. But I have noticed since the popularity increase of Ustream that a lot of my favorite YouTubers are not posting videos but rather spending all there time streaming. I know people whos videos I really enjoy but the havent posted in over 2 weeks, but if you visit there Ustream channel you’ll see than streaming most all the time. Now I love ustream and i do plan to do a live stream once in awhile but this everyday stuff is killing peoples interest in youtube. I am not Chris Pirillo. And I dont think people should try to be. I have a Blog, 2 Youtube channels, a web site, 2 kids, and I work. This doesnt leave very much time for live streaming. So this BLOG entry isnt really complaining about someone streaming. Its about people not posting on youtube because they are to worried about there Ustream. A lot of teh people I subscribe to on youtube are ustreamers. I found my youtube audience, by far, to be the best and most likely to stick with me in the future. I do not want to sacrifice 1600 subscribers so 40 people can watch me on Ustream. Granted, you can record your show and post it on YouTube but I never se this happening. So what makes Ustream so popular at the moment. I believe its because it’s something different. People love youtube but it seems they are crying for a live social interaction with other people, and for some YouTube doesnt do that. Now rumors are floating around about YouTube setting up a service similar to Ustream, which may help or hurt YouTubers. The YouTube website is already slow enough sometimes. Some days it flies others it crawls so will this new streaming feature make our YouTuber experience even that much worse or will it help take some of the wind out of Ustreams sails? I for one would like to see people get back to youtube and forget this ustream stuff. Ustream is good but should not replace your YouTube videos. I enjoy searching YouTube for my friends vids or something really great I havent sen yet, with ustream all Im doing is seting and watching some dude live that really dont have that much to say anyway. So am I against Ustream? Absolutly not. Do I think Its overrated? Yes. Are These people gonna come back to YouTube? i think so. I think its just a phase for a lot of people. Most will get on Ustream, streaming for about a month and then slowly leave it behind and come back to YouTube. I realize this is not always the case but if my predictions are right, i see the Youtubers who are spending all there time on Ustream giving it up and coming back to post videos after all this wears off. It wore off for me and i expect it to wear off other people too. I get my videos out to a lot more people when posted to YouTube as opposed to just Ustreaming. If these people want to Ustream, fine. But dont forsake us YouTubers who have been here since the start.
