Re: TECH: Demise of Apple/Macintosh?

[Gretchen Hinman <ghinman1@MSN.COM>]

Wall Street Journal, January 23, 1997 : fascinating article entitled Sticking
with the Mac will require Patience and a Big Leap of Faith by Walter Mossberg
(page B1)  The automobile analogy doesn't work when you think about what
Mossberg has to say.

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From:   School Library Media & Network Communications  On Behalf Of horn_jim
Sent:   Wednesday, April 30, 1997 7:41 PM
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Subject:        Re: TECH: Demise of Apple/Macintosh?

I've often thought an interesting study could be done to explore the
connection between platform preference and learning style. I would guess
that Macpeople will be global and that PCpeople will be analytic. Any
other guesses?  But as we know, learning styles are not nearly as static
as platforms.  Someday soon I think that most of the resources we use
will be Web based, so that will simplify matters perhaps.  In the
meantime, I find it much easier to connect PCs to an Mac network running
Appleshare than to connect Macs to a Novell or to an NT network. I know
that there are still those who think that Appleshare is slow, but if you
are running a LAN no larger than a school, I don't think you will notice
an appreciable difference--except in set-up and administration, of course.
I don't know of many SLMSs who have the time, money, or inclination to
become certified in NT or Novell.
Perhaps if Jobs displaces Amelio, we will once again see some foresight
to go with all the money that Apple has (laying or lying) around.

Jim Horn
Asst. Prof.
Palmer School
LIU
Brookville, NY
jhorn@titan.liunet.edu

On Wed, 30 Apr 1997, Lee MacWilliams wrote:

>  We are still in a dual platform society.  The majority of computer users
> require; word processing, internet access, cd roms and email.  Either Mac
> or IBM & clones will suffice..
>  I think we need to keep reminding ourselves though that we are not
> educating 'all' our children to go out into the business world of number
> crunchers and corporate buyouts.  Their Creativity and diversity  need to
> be explored and limiting the resources available to them reminds me a
> little of 'Big Brother'.
>  My system is trying to become one platform (PC) but there are enough of us
> who prefer the Macs rather than PC for multimedia, web design and desktop
> publishing, to keep ordering them.  We have been told they will not do Mac
> repairs but that does not matter.  What our students have been able to
> create and achieve does.  They have the use of either platform but prefer
> the Mac (elementary school) and as long as we are able, we will provide
> them with a choice.
>  My teachers are also partial to the Mac and the main reason is ease of
use..
>   I enjoy placing a Mac next to non Mac (don't want to discredit any one
> manufacturer) and giving teachers identical cd roms (most educational cd
> roms are cross platforms now) and telling them to load and run them.  One
> machine brings the icon to the desktop, you double click and it opens and
> runs.  The other..well, we get as far as file manager..browse...find
> d\:...exe. and they sit there saying, why do we have to do all this.
>
>  As with everything in education, it will all come down to money and which
> company spends the most on advertising to make sure their machines are
> placed in a school system.
>
> In the meantime, I'll keep buying Apple stock and wondering when Windows 97
> & NT will finally come out and will they also say, while we're running an
> application, "You have performed an illegal operation"..this machine will
> self destruct in 5 seconds.
>
>
> Lee E. MacWilliams
> Instructional Technology / Library Media
>
> * Web site  http://www.mylink.net/~leemac/lee.html
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