M$ took a different business tack in the early 1980's. Bill's motto was "Knife the baby" when an innovative software vendor would not agree to be acquired. Bill started M$ writing an OS for the IBM PC, remember? They never cared much who made the hardware.
You are a little late to start whimpering now. Thank you, Mark Snyder -----Original Message----- With the logic you present below, MS should try to write code so that Windows won't run in any fashion on a Mac? Someone's business model is flawed? Fred Holmes At 05:38 AM 11/3/2009, Snyder, Mark - IdM (IS) wrote: >Apple is preventing them from taking advantage of Apple's investments in >iTunes and in Mac OS X by not making these investments work with >non-Apple products; phones and other products competing with Apple. The >reason Apple spends money to develop and market them is to provide >advantages to Apple products. For example, Apple has no products using >Atom processors and no plans to use them, so why would they make Mac OS >X work on them? How could this not be clear? > >Thank you, > >Mark Snyder >-----Original Message----- > >How is MSI making money off apple? How is palm making money being able >to >sync to itunes? How is Apple being ripped off? The money Apple might >be >losing aren't even pennies, but they are taking potential customers and >going out of their way to make things hard to save those fractions of a >cent. > >We aren't talking about Psystar, different subject. They are directly >marketing and making money from what they are doing. MSI, other netbook >manufacturers, Palm, these guys aren't trying to wedge their devices to >work >with Apple, they just do. > > > >On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Snyder, Mark - IdM (IS) < >mark.sny...@ngc.com> wrote: > >> Apple is defending its brand and its infrastructure from the other >> companies trying to make money on Mac OS (psyster, mostly) and from >> iTunes - other phone vendors. Apple made those investments and are >> trying to make sure competitors can't rip them off. >> >> Why do you expect Apple to share its investments with other companies? >> Why would they not want to have exclusive competitive advantage from >> their own investments? >> >> Thank you, >> >> Mark Snyder >> -----Original Message----- >> So Apple once again has 'fixed' iTunes so it will not work with palm >pre >> at >> all. Whom does this help or hurt? It doesn't do a damn thing for >> paying >> apple customers...and for those who bought a pre, who may have >> considered a >> mac or ipod, they are now at odds with Apple over their purposely >> shutting >> off functionality. I'm not talking about writing code that >accidentally >> breaks things, Apple specifically went in and wrote in code to lock >out >> the >> pre. Now they are rumored to be writing a 'fix' for the next release >of >> snow cat that refuses support for intel's atom cpu. The reason? >Those >> few >> dozen people who are putting OS X on netbooks is pissing Apple off. >> This >> fix does nothing for Apple's customers, and pisses off potential ones. >> I'm >> not saying Apple should purposely build in support for the pre or >atom, >> but >> when it's already there, why are they spending time and money to go >back >> and >> shut a very very small amount of people down? ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
