lakestevensdental wrote:
> Fernando Cassia wrote:
>> A couple points:
>>
>> 1. Apple makes proprietary, closed solutions. Try to reverse engineer
>> Apple´s firmware for compatibility reasons and you´ll see Apple
>> lawyers coming to get you.
>>
> They've found there's a broad end-user market for stuff that meets a
> certain ease of use and reliability standards. Go figure.
>> 2. Apple makes expensive, not cheap, hardware.
>>
> See above.
>> 3. Apple does not support Free Software in general
>> (if you know any Apple software released under the GNU GPL Free
>> Software license, let me know)
>> that puts it at odds with the N8xx tablets Linux OS foundation.
>>
> See above. Also, at least for the Ipod and Iphones, lots of
> applications are inexpensive, many less than $10 -- a couple Starbucks.
> The market appears to find low cost functional software beneficial.
> Lots of folks are willing to pay a little for software developers to
> fill their market with a wide variety of software. Go figure.
>> 4. Apple continues pretending Linux doesn´t exist (Quicktime for Linux,
>> anyone).
>>
> And MS doesn't provide DirectX 10 for Linux either so more games and
> graphics apps would be Linux compatible. Big surprise there. It's as
> if the proprietary world has figured out the Linux world isn't organized
> enough to cooperate together to develop an open source version for these
> important niches.
>> 5. Apple charges an arm and a leg for software upgrades
>>
> See above.
>> 6. Apple doesn´t like people tinkering with its OS.
>>
> See above
>> 7. Apple is just a Microsoft with a sense of style.
>> There´s plenty of "not invented here syndrome", like Microsoft does
>> with WMV, Apple does with Quicktime. Why not embrace OpenOffice.org?
>> Not invented at Apple, so it must suck, right?.
>>
> See above.
>> I wouldn´t buy any device from Apple corp. FC
>>
>
> Good luck carrying that non-Apple albatross around your neck... It's
> not like there's nothing to learn from the successful.
>
heh, one thing one can learn for sure, is that playing on peoples vanity
provides a whole lot of free publicity...
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