Posted on Friday 16 December 2005 - Popularity: unranked
Apple Matters has an interview up with the search and Google expert John Battelle. The interview itself isn’t that interesting, but maybe someone should tell this guy to check his Mac:
Hadley Stern: Is there anything you think Apple could learn from Google? Anything Google can learn from Apple?
John Battelle: Don’t get me started! I have to say, the most frustrating thing about Macs is the willingness to crash and restart. Yeah, I know that was supposed to go away with Tiger, but it has not. And man Microsoft Office is so terrible and non-standard and bloated and buggy, it’s hard to know where to start.
But as to what Apple might learn from Google, I’d say experiment a bit more. It’s feeling a bit monolithic over at Apple lately - it only comes out if it’s just so.
Google could learn how to handle relationships with the media and entertainment world from Apple.
Willingness to crash and restart? I haven’t had to restart one of my Macs for years, I can’t remember any such problems since the early days of OS X, and I’m testing a lot of software on my machines, many that aren’t even close to being mature releases. I’ve googled some different search terms to find anyone else that has the problems he describes, but wasn’t even able to find one. To me this sounds a lot like he has an isolated hardware problem, maybe an unstable RAM chip, a loose contact somewhere or something like that. Maybe Apple should send this guy a new Mac or we wont get any of those Google tools for our Macs. 
Fredi
