Fallows Article on Info Managers

Posted by Daly de Gagne
Nov 17, 2006 at 03:46 PM

Stephen, I am curious about your comment re OSX—I hadn’t realized it had a problem with speed. Tha concerns me since I am thinking of getting back into the Mac world. Am I better staying with PCs only?

Daly

Stephen R. Diamond wrote:
>Daly de Gagne wrote:
> >>I noted with interest that he has visited the
>>ADM team in
>China, and that he plans to write more about ADM in the future. He doesn’t
>>note some of
>the recent concerns about ADM and, in fact, seems positive about the
>>program.
> >
>Fallows is more capable than I would have previously believed in talking complete
>nonsense about software. Perhaps it comes with being a journalist, but he is far from
>immune to hype. I was looking at some older articles he wrote, where he said that
>OmniOutliner for OS X combined the best features of BrainStorm, NoteMap, Echo, and
>GrandView. Yeah, right. Omin isn’t _that_ feature rich; and no one, including James,
>mentions that OS X is painfully slow and not terribly stable, traits which
>considerably diminishing any application it runs.