Back with Apple!

Since this is one of the first few blogs (actually 2^nd)
that I am writing from my Macbook even though I am having Macbook
from more than 6 months! My personality has real hight swings, I
generally write a lot when my personality has swinged to the
direction of a ‘blog writer’. It looks like that’s happening now!
Also over the past 6 monhts I was in India mostly and traveling
around and involved with too many things that I couln’t really
contribute to my blog. “Ho sake to maaf kar de na”

Let me start this new season by writing something about Apple.
I have really become a very big fan of apple after buying my macbook.
Not that I did not like Apple before, but now it has taken over the
number 1 position from Google in my lists of favorite companies. Here
is my current prediction – ‘over the next 5 years apple will become
the biggest technology company in the world overtaking both Google
and Microsoft’. Well it definitely is a very bold prediction, but
Apple fans will know why

Let me put out some reasons for it. Coming to my Macbook. I
never had imagined that I will be such a satisfied customer of
Macbook. I used to have a Dell Inspiron E1505 before. I used to
always curse both Microsoft and Dell because the machine used to have
bad performance (even though I had Core Duo proessor and 1 GB RAM). I
have no such complaints with Mac. Mac is blazing fast. They give the
best hardware for the money they charge. Even though the Macbook
price looks like its on the higher side, believe me it’s worth every
penny. And the software, I can tell you that ‘Mac OS X is by far the
best operating system ever made till date’. Since most of the people
have always been using Windows, they don’t know that Mac OS X is
actually a better operating system.

1.It’s much more easier to use (it might take some time for
windows users to get used to it, which is very much understandable).

2. Its much more stable than Windows. Very rare that the OS will
freeze and you don’t really need frequent restarts.

3. The OS and all the software which comes from Apple (including
Mail, iTunes, iWork, iLife, etc) are all written in a very efficient
way. They don’t really need to used huge amount of memory space like
Microsoft Windows and other microsoft applications.

4. There is a feature called ‘Spotlight’ in Mac which makes
searching anything and everything in Mac very easy. This includes
files, mails, songs, videos, etc which are on the hard-drive. This is
similar to Google desktop but it has much better features than the
google software and since it’s integrated with the OS, it doesn’t
slowdown the system. Also it’s integrated with all Apple applications
which makes it very productive.

5. Mac comes with free software package called iLife which
includes Mail, Address Book, Calendar, iTunes, iPhoto, iDVD, iMovie
etc. These software so so useful that I was wondering how I missed
them all these years. These softwares makes my macbook sooo much more
productive than my previous Dell.

6. And not to miss, the look and feel, ease of navigation etc
which are apple specialties. This will leave any person in awe.

7. The battery life is awesome. It always lasts me for at least 4
hours.

I am sure there are lot of elaborative article. There are lots of
reviews available for Macbook. And there are also lot of videos
available on www.apple.com which
shows details of features of Macbook.

And coming to rest of the things from Apple. I am sure you would
have heard about iPhone. If you have really used iPhone or an
iPod Touch (which I proudly own), you will really know what the hype
is all about. If one looks into the market there is no product
anywhere close to what an iPhone is. I have even checked out Samsung
Instinct personally which is supposed to be the iPhone killer and
boy it just sucks. One can’t use it after having a look at iPhone!
iPhone is really getting $325 subside from AT&T for every iPhone
sold. And the subside becomes $425 if it is sold by Aplle stores. Can
you imagine the kind of money apple is going to make out of iPhones!
Since it’s priced at $200 for the 3G GPS phone, it will sell like hot
cake and Apple is going to make tons of money out of it! And now they
are also challenging Blackberry with new features which also makes it
a good business phone which can be used in Enterprise!!

They have also started an amazing web based feature called Mobile
me. This also shows how good Apple can be at making web applications.
They are not really far from Google in creating great web
applications.

Apple always know where the money is, Apple products never come
cheap. But they are always worth every penny paid for it. Out of the
3 big technology companies Apple, Google and Microsoft I think
apple is rising the fastest. If you just check the rise of Market cap
of Apple since Dec 2006 you will understand what I am talking about.

If you don’t already own any apple product you will soon come to
know what you are missing all these years. Do check out www.apple.com
& don’t miss the videos there!

For now you can enjoy the Macbook Air Video!! Trust me it’s
amazing!