How About a Real Business Mac?
October 9th, 2008One of the earliest superstitions bandied about when it came to a Mac was that it wasn’t a serious business computer. In those days, real computers used command line interfaces, and Apple’s graphical flourishes were meant as entertainment. You couldn’t, they said, get any real work done on one of those little boxes. But since Apple wasn’t heavily into games, just what could you do?
Well, of course, there was the advent of desktop publishing, for one, which turned one industry upside down. I also recall how quickly musicians adapted to Macs, and used them for digital recording studios.
Later, when Microsoft embraced a similar operating system concept, by building a graphical interface layer on DOS, using technology they acquired from Apple — and don’t get me started on that subject — the excuses had to change.
These days, Apple continues to foster the impression that Macs are strictly consumer computers, what with the iLife suite bundled on every model. They’re great for getting online, sending email, managing your digital photos and music, but when it comes to word processing and spreadsheets, it’s still Windows all the way.
