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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, August 28 2012 @ 01:41 PM EDT |
It was obvious to me from the very beginning, with the Lisa and the Mac, that
Apple would be a far more evil monopolist than even Microsoft. They could not
stand anyone doing anything with their products unless they pre-approved it.
The only thing that stopped them was that they had so little market power that
they could not exercise the control they craved. Now they can.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: RPN on Tuesday, August 28 2012 @ 05:43 PM EDT |
I'm evidently a little younger :) if not a lot and a lot of what you say rings
true. I actually don't mind the closed system of Apple in principle, it is the
tying in of app store, iTunes etc etc that bugs me. I'm getting of an age where
to some degree I just what something that works out of the box so to some extent
I understand the allure of Apple laptops and desktops at least. At the moment I
need a dual WAN with load balancing and it's do I play with the likes of pfSense
to get it given I do have a suitable old box and spare NIC's around or do I just
go out and buy a £100-£200 netgear/billion/whatever that will take ten minutes
to set up and then I can forget it (except I would turn off all the extra stuff
and just keep using my Smoothwall box for the firewall etc stuff - apart from
anything else they'll certainly update as needed better than a device maker).
I will add I finally downloaded the latest Win8 preview recently and the very
first thing to strike me strongly about it, apart from the weirdness of the
Metro/desktop mashup was the blatant monetizing in the Metro apps installed.
Even during the setup it was almost demanding I sign up for a Windows Live
account. That's what I hate. I'll chose and use what I want. Stick to delivering
a decent OS for goodness sake. Apple stick to your niche of a good hardware
& software combination that just works for people who like it that way. Stop
trying to shove this other stuff that just annoys on me.
Richard.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, August 29 2012 @ 06:20 AM EDT |
You can probably apply the same historical view to countries as well as
companies.
And just as some companies fade away or need to reconstruct themselves to stay
relevant, the US may find itself becoming sidelined on the world stage if it
doesn't find a way to play nice with everyone else.
The stark contrast between Apple-Samsung results in the US compared to South
Korea do make one wonder just how impartial the law systems are.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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