Ten years ago, Microsoft was the company everyone loved to hate.
The most vociferous Microsoft haters slammed the company for being a greedy industry bully that used its monopolistic, clunky, copycat operating system to force software on users and coerce partners into unfair licensing deals.
Don’t look now, but the role of the industry’s biggest bully is increasingly played by Apple, not Microsoft.
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I’m gonna side with Lauren here.
My Mac runs 24/7/365 never a problem. The Mac users I know have never had problems with their machines either.
My XP rig runs great for a month or so before I’m required to re-image c: to restore functionality.
I make a pretty decent living just installing Windoze and imaging clients systems for later restore. You can’t do that with Mac users.
#65. streaming, no problem. copying, and the music companies are going to demand Zune type restrictions. I can see some pretty cool commercials where a bunch of people wearing iPod headphones are all grooving to the same songs.
I would think that wireless file-sharing would be an acceptable business model to the MPAA for the monthly subscriber model. after all – if you are paying $14.99 a month for all you can eat, who cares if you get the song from the iTunes (or Zune) store or another device owner? indeed, getting it from another user saves the provider the bandwidth costs.
an iPod mesh net would be a great idea, but it would be deadly on battery life. I am waiting on iPhone voip along the lines of the T-Mobile home hotspot service. I don’t think it is out of the question, but I am certainly not holding my breath.
Oh, and speaking of the wi-fi iTunes – evidently they are excluding podcasts from the mix. thats the deal-killer for me. since I buy very little iTunes music, the only use I can see for it is staying current on my podcasts while I am away from my PC. maybe if I could buy an audiobook on a hotel’s wi-fi that would be OK.
#66 – tcc3
“What you have linked to is an add-on or upgrade to OSX, which you can only legally install on Apple hardware.”
Ya. My hairy yellow ass.
It is the complete install of the latest version of OS X. It has no copy protection, nor does it ‘phone home’ or otherwise make life difficult through Byzantine “authentication” schemes that presume the user to be a criminal – in other words, none of the shit that Windows users are forced to put up with (except for actual pirates, who of course don’t to suffer those indignities).
I suppose I’m to understand that OS X, which runs on computers which run OS X, is worlds apart from Windows, which runs on toasters, teakettles and circular saws, not only on computers which run WIndows…
🙂
No, you’re supposed to understand that comparing Apples hardware protectionist strategy to the orange that is “buying windows and installing it on whatever you like” is dishonest. Saying Windows costs too much when Apple ties it all to premium priced proprietary hardware is dishonest.
A debate is easy when you take the bits you like and conveniently ignore the rest.
#54, “And to let you guys know Apple sold it’s 1 millionth iPhone yesterday. That took just 74 days, 21 days ahead of predictions.
Comment by just me — 9/10/2007 @ 7:18 am “
WooHoo, 1 million phones. Get out the cake and balloons. [Snore]
Market leader Nokia notched up 100 million cellphones sold in the quarter for the first time, maintaining its number-one position and grew its market share from 33.4% in Q2 2006 to 37% for the same quarter this year. One source (among many):
http://techlogg.com/content/view/345/31/
Apple is close to receiving the BubbaRayDipDork Award and Hop’s Ultimate King Kahuna Moron Award for their wonderful pricing and “let’s screw the customer” practices. Apple isn’t a pimple on Nokia’s or Motorola’s butt for cell phone sales.
I always found it amazing that the counter culture’s darling was Apple ( until Linux emerged)
Their evil bad empire was Bill Gates /Microsft
And yet Apple was tremendously more closed source and propietary than the Microsoft / dos / Windows world
If anything Apple was even more greedy and selfish
They could of wiped Microsoft and Dos into the dustheap of history and yet due to legions of greed and control did not
Vendors who had to deal with Apple would tell you that Apple Computer was ” Just Terrible”
To their credit they kept a tight hand on suppliers so that everything worked as it should
Very intuitive
Very high level of hardware quality
And yet pricing was very high and software was just exhorbitant
True in the end ( compared to Microsoft Windows) no one who ever bought a Mac was unhappy and a Mac was very good value overall
Yet when you look at it in simple terms who was propietary and who was more open source – Microsoft