Fallows Article on Info Managers

Posted by Stephen R. Diamond
Nov 19, 2006 at 11:37 PM

Your telling me what to post is presumptuous and like your other opinions, loathsome. If you don’t like my posts, don’t read them.

Kenneth Rhee wrote:
> >
>Stephen R. Diamond wrote:
>>
>>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.
> >
>I know I’m risking this being escalated into another “flaming” war, but I couldn’t
>stand any longer.
> >I would appreciate if you could post something that would be
>helpful to people on this board, and avoid making any snide remark about folks who
>might not have the opportunity to defend themselves in this forum.
> >Also, if I didn’t
>know better, I would think you would be on MS’s payroll. Your repeated attacks on Mac is
>getting tiresome. Mac is an excellent platform on its own right, and it offers certain
>outlining programs that have features that are currently not available in the
>Windows platform, Omni being one. I don’t think I have found any Windows equivalent of
>Omni, DEVONthink, Tinderbox, or even Notetaker. Although Eastgate (maker of
>Tinderbox) has been working on the windows version of Tinderbox for a long
>time.
> >Thanks.
> >Ken