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Can someone explain this to me?
I doubt Apple wants that reputation, because as soon as it gets it, it will lose the goodwill and positive mindshare it has worked hard to build with the iTunes brand.
Notice that I do not have iTunes installed - a search for iTunes shows no results for the iTunes application. So why is Apple trying to “update” iTunes on my computer? If I leave the “iTunes + Quicktime” option checked in the Apple Software Updater, it will actually install iTunes on my system.
Apple also attempts to tie-in iTunes with QuickTime, and QuickTime with Safari.
With its attempts to bundle unwanted software with requested downloads, and to force iTunes on every system it can, Apple is rapidly earning a reputation in my mind similar to that of RealNetworks in the 90s of using spyware-like tactics to essentially take over your system, and requiring extreme vigilance to prevent that from happening.
I doubt Apple wants that reputation, because as soon as it gets it, it will lose the goodwill and positive mindshare it has worked hard to build with the iTunes brand.
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| UnnDunn | comments | views |
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Yeah, I see a relationship between the goals of ReadyBoost and a RAMdisk. But you’re spinning it as if Apple invented ReadyBoost and therefore OMG APPLE IS BETTAR!
Or did you not post this:
Yeah man, it’s a good thing they haven’t copied Apple’s ReadyBoost yet!You mean like RAM disk from Mac System 7 released in 1991? :wink:
You know, RAM is a lot faster than USB Flash drives.
Since Apple doesn’t have ReadyBoost, your mission is to tie ReadyBoost into something Apple does have - RAMdisk - and use it to bash Microsoft further.
ReadyBoost is not related to RAMdisk. In some cases, however, they have similar effects. I have said this before.
| UnnDunn | Jun. 27, 2007 | |
| 12:53 pm |
Yeah, I see a relationship between the goals of ReadyBoost and a RAMdisk.
The goals? You mean, using RAM or Flash to store cache because they are faster than a hard drive? LOL
But you’re spinning it as if Apple invented ReadyBoost and therefore OMG APPLE IS BETTAR!
This is you being the hyper-defensive Apple basher you are. I never claimed Apple invented RAM disks. I’m simply disagreeing with any notion that Microsoft’s ReadyBoost is new. It’s a very old idea - storing cache on RAM or Flash memory (in ReadyBoost’s case). I said it’s an evolution of an existing idea and feature.
Liam was responding to a trollish comment about Vista being a copy of OS X. There are many features in Vista that you could point to that weren’t/aren’t in one form or another already in the Mac OS. I wouldn’t point to ReadyBoost because it’s a very old idea. People were using RAM to store cache a long time ago, on Windows and on the Mac (and probably on Linux and Unix as well).
| Jun. 27, 2007 | ||
| 1:12 pm |
Well, yeah, Spotlight is evolutionary. BeOS had the same concept too in the 90s.
This would be an example of that double-standard you exhibit. You don’t think Spotlight is anything new but you think ReadyBoost is. Ugh.
This is you obfuscating again…
| Jun. 27, 2007 | ||
| 1:37 pm |
I didn’t say anything about ReadyBoost being “new”.
And I wasn’t replying to you - go figure! LOL I was replying to Liam’s comment that, to me, implied ReadyBoost was something brand new.
We both agree that ReadyBoost isn’t new. Great.
You’re the one who kept trying to make ReadyBoost seem like a cheap RAMdisk knockoff.
As I said way up above, it’s evolutionary.
| Jun. 27, 2007 | ||
| 2:02 pm |
I said it was not like RAMdisk. Which it isn’t.
Sure, if you ignore the fact that the whole purpose of both is exactly the same - to take cache off of the slow hard drive.
Other than that, they are not alike at all. One uses Flash memory and the other uses RAM, for crying out loud. Flash memory and RAM are two completely unrelated things! 
| Jun. 27, 2007 | ||
| 2:04 pm |
Yeah, yeah, and a Jazz drive isn’t the same as a Zip drive. Ugh. Give it up.
You are flip-flopping.
So Spotlight isn’t the same as Windows 2000’s indexed search…
| Jun. 28, 2007 | ||
| 1:23 pm |
How many times do I have to say Microsoft’s ReadyBoost is evolutionary? Does that mean it’s identical? No! Read the actual lines, not between the lines.
| Jun. 28, 2007 | ||
| 1:33 pm |
The actual lines:
Yeah man, it’s a good thing they haven’t copied Apple’s ReadyBoost yet!You mean like RAM disk from Mac System 7 released in 1991? :wink:
You know, RAM is a lot faster than USB Flash drives.
How many times do I have to say Microsoft’s ReadyBoost is evolutionary? Does that mean it’s identical? No!
Translation: ReadyBoost is evolutionary, but RAMdisk is BETTAR because it’s “a lot faster than USB Flash drives.”
Or are you going to claim you meant nothing by that wink? 
| UnnDunn | Jun. 28, 2007 | |
| 2:25 pm |
Gosh, you see black helicopters and they have the Apple logo, don’t they?
The wink was meant to keep it jovial, like Liam’s response to the troll was.
Yes, RAM is faster than the Flash memory drive. It’s better in that regard. So what?
What’s your point, UnnDunn? It’s not like I wrote 900 words talking about how “bettar!” it is in a blog.
It’s just amazingly hypocritical of you to paint me as a partisan. LOL
| Jun. 28, 2007 | ||
| 2:56 pm |
So I ruined your Christmas, and I had a keynote that didn’t say things, and I released a product that doesn’t have certain features…
When I’m not as busy with projects, I’ll have to post a blog with my review of Vista complete with screenshots. I’ll make sure to show every single thing that sucks and bugs me or is a bug. I’ll start with the inconsistency of shadows…
I haven’t even launched the helicopters, UnnDunn.
| Jun. 28, 2007 | ||
| 5:42 pm |
RAM disks are virtual drives, stored in RAM.
ReadyBoost is virtual RAM, stored on a removable drive.
The two are nothing alike. Now cut it out.
| Jun. 28, 2007 | |
| Arden | 10:12 pm |
Yeah, virtual memory is stored on drives. Many people are using RAM Disks as that drive over a hard drive, because a RAM Disk is faster. ReadyBoost uses Flash memory because it’s faster than a hard drive.
It’s a very simple thing to understand. I don’t really want to argue semantics. I never stated a RAM Disk is the same thing as a USB Flash drive. I don’t know why that is being brought up. The concept of using memory instead of a hard drive to store page files/cache/etc. was not invented by Microsoft. That’s it.
| Jun. 29, 2007 | ||
| 8:26 am |
ReadyBoost is NOT virutal ram. It actually mirrors the page file that is stored on the hard drive and therefore it is more like a flash hard drive than flash-based ram. Combined with Microsoft’s encryption, memory algorithms, superfetch, and other features one could say Readyboost is SIGNIFICANTLY different from anything before it to be considered “new”. But I don’t understand why you guys think something that is “new” can’t be evolutionary as well.
That said, even if one were to setup a ram disk on a flash drive it wouldn’t have the same effect as Readyboost.
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You are trying to obfuscate. ReadyBoost wasn’t around in 1991, nor was it around when those Windows users in 2003 were creating RAM Disks on their PCs to speed up Photoshop.
But the concept is the same - use RAM or Flash memory for cache instead of a hard drive for a speed increase.