On Jan 22, 2012, at 16:33 , Steven Desjardins wrote: > They're all wanna be evil empires. The new buzzword is "ecosystem" so > that you have to commit to everything produced or at least controlled > by one company. Amazon and Google are doing the same thing, and > Wintel is gearing up for a new run. Of course, that doesn't mean that > we should all be happy about it. It's just the current level of > "bastardness".
Wouldn't that be "the current level of wanting to be profitable enough to stay in business"? I know, we're speaking of the largest and most profitable of companies here. But modern corporations learned 10-20 years ago you can't stay in business if you give it away. Once they figured that out, they got greedy with those profits, collecting the best aftermarket companies and bringing them inside. Eventually, they saw the light of the product/consumer marriage and even higher profits, almost guaranteed. They've also learned that no one found any legal reason they could not pull support as they introduced newer products. Software that made your hardware obsolete on odd years, hardware that made your software obsolete during even years. For corporate and educational use, this just about forces them to replace everything in IT to be able to compete with the latest WOW stuff. But they only do this for your own good. Truth. Joseph McAllister pentax...@mac.com THE SENILITY PRAYER : Grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway, The good fortune to run into the ones I do, and The eyesight to tell the difference. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
