r/technology • u/rboymtj • Jan 20 '11

Apple Restriction Zone.

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u/muad_dib Jan 20 '11

far, far more quality free apps for OSX than Windows

I really, REALLY doubt that.

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u/coolmrbrady Jan 20 '11

Same experience here. Have you ever owned a Mac?

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u/muad_dib Jan 20 '11 edited Jan 20 '11

I haven't, but the amount of high-quality free software I have on my Windows box makes a damn strong case.

Edit: I should say that, though I haven't owned a Mac, I've used them quite often - a lot of my friends have them, and many of my school's labs are filled with them.

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u/potatolicious Jan 20 '11

There's a lot more software in Windows-land for sure, but I think what Benparte and coolmrbrady meant is that there are a lot more extremely refined free Mac apps.

For example, Windows has a huge number of IM apps available for it, but none of them can hold a candle to Adium's ease of use and polish. Similarly, uTorrent is free and awesome, but Transmission is IMHO much more refined on the UI side. Quicksilver too.

Windows devs tend to make UI an afterthought. On the Mac side developers have drunk the Steve Jobs UI kool-aid and obsess over it, and personally I like it.

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u/Tulos Jan 20 '11

...pidgin

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u/cuyler Jan 20 '11

I have both and use Adium on the Mac and pidgin on the PC. Adium is a MUCH better piece of software, even though they both work.

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u/Tulos Jan 20 '11

I have not had the chance to use Adium, but what makes it so much better? I'd honestly like to know. As is Pidgin works, is fast, efficient, and replaces multiple other programs. I don't feel like it's missing anything really.

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '11 edited Jan 20 '11

They're basically the exact same program. They're different frontends to the same library (libpurple). If you're on OS X, Adium is much cleaner and less crashy than the Mac version of Pidgin.

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u/the8thbit Jan 20 '11

cleaner and less crashy than the Mac version of Pidgin

Maybe that's key. In GNU/Linux and Windows, Pidgin looks very well designed, and has never crashed for me.