Re: Apple/Epson driver failure.
Re: Apple/Epson driver failure.
- Subject: Re: Apple/Epson driver failure.
- From: Martin Diers <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 03 Apr 2010 17:41:03 -0500
On 4/3/10 5:05 PM, Marco Ugolini wrote:
> (My sense of Windows OS releases is that, over the years, trouble has
> weighed massively in THEIR balance, to the point that VISTA actually had to
> be pulled from the market.)
>
>
As a heavy Mac and Windows user (who prefers Macs by a long shot), an
administrator of a network of about 20 Mac, 25 PCs, 8 Linux servers, 4
Windows servers, and 12 Windows-based RIPs, I can unequivocally say that
that statement is just wrong.
I am firmly convinced that Mac users are simply more tolerant than
Windows users. Macs went through, what, 4 massive architectural changes
in the last 20 years that required a complete re-engineering of all
applications just to keep up? 680x0 to Power PC. OS 9 to a completely
new OS. Then PowerPC to Intel. Then Carbon to Cocoa. Now we have 64-bit
in the mix. Add to that a constantly shifting API with each new release
making it extremely easy for new applications to only work on the latest
version of OS X.
Am I complaining? No. It's called progress. I am impressed that Jobs got
away with it.
BUT, I have successfully run ancient 16-bit Windows applications on
Windows XP WITHOUT requiring an entire OS to be installed in parallel
just to make it work (ala Mac Classic compatibility mode). Vista had
many problems, without question, but they were mere trifles compared to
the transition from OS 9 to OS X. Do you remember how many Mac users
screamed bloody murder about having to learn everything from scratch and
type a password every time they needed to do something that required
admin privileges? By 10.2 most of the complaints had ceased.
Vista had almost precisely this problem, just not nearly as bad. I HATE
the fact that they moved everything around and introduced poorly
implemented security layers. But by the time Win 7 came out, all the
things I hated most about Vista were still present in Win 7. But by this
time I had gotten over them. In fact, from a Color Management
standpoint, Vista was far and away, the best OS that Microsoft had ever
released.
Whether or not WCS's implementation of CIECAM02 is the right
implementation, the fact remains that Vista was the first OS to support
CIECAM02. That is also progress.
If a RIP comes along that takes the radical step of supporting WCS, it
will only happen because the CIECAM support was there to begin with. I
am of the opinion that the world of Color management will not be shaken
up enough to start the transition away from LAB until something on this
order happens. And that's not to say that WCS will then become the
defacto standard. I highly doubt that would ever happen. But if in a
production product we can demonstrate the superior abilities of the
CIECAM space, perhaps Apple will sit up and take notice. Wouldn't that
be ironic if it is Microsoft's support of CIECAM that becomes the stimulus.
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