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Jobs Claims Microsoft Is Shamelessly Copying
Nicholas Roussos writes "Steve Jobs was outspoken at a recent annual shareholder meeting. He claimed 'They are shamelessly copying us', referring to Microsoft. Of course, Microsoft has done its share of pointing fingers as well." From the article: "Most telling, Jobs said is that Tiger, the next version of Mac OS X, will go on sale later this month, while Longhorn is still more than a year away."
But microsoft has a larger customer base to consider when releasing product. If M$ had a customer base as small as Apple's, I'm sure they'd be able to put out new releases every six months as well.
I don't think this deserves being modded troll. Maybe you don't agree with it, but this post is short and makes a reasonable point. Whoever modded it as troll should really defend his or her reason for doing that.
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...was the innovative fast user switching. Apple was so far ahead of the game with this one. What's that you say? Windows had this one first and OSX copied that? Surely you jest. What about alt-tab application switching with the display of the application icon middle of the screen? Apple may have had that one first. No? My god, what's this world coming to. Now, I know Spotlight is original and no one has been able to implement desktop search capabilities in real-time. Hold on a second, you're telling me MSN has an integrated tool which indexes and searches my entire desktop, including e-mail and file contents?
Sure, these tools may not have the polish Apple puts on them but the tools are there none the less and have been there for quite some time. I'm sure if you look deeper you'll notice other things like core video behaving very much like Microsoft's GDI+, albeit a bit more advanced since it's a lot newer. Apple's Dock was a similar nod to the popularity of the taskbar in Windows though Apple failed to develop a better solution her (it did look purty though didn't it with its genie effects and poofs; sort of a slight of hand, "we know the dock doesn't work but look at the cool effects we can make to divert your attention away from this").
Microsoft is copying, and in a really broad sense, Windows sucks.
See, thing is, I have a PC. I do have other options, but your OS isn't one of them. And no I don't have over a thousand extra just lying around to spend on your option.
So go away. You're annoying me.
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Seems like typical Apple nonsense to me. Copy something that someone else did first, and then claim it's the other way around. I can see why Steve Jobs is going on the offensive, though. If Apple didn't have such great marketing they would be on the short track to irrelevance.
Whoever corrects a mocker invites insult;
whoever rebukes a wicked man incurs abuse.
--Proverbs 9:7
The OS X GUI isn't the operating system. The kernel and filesystem are the operating system. This is why Linux is an operating system, and Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, etc, etc are distrobutions.
So yes, BSD was the base for the entire operating system.
BeauHD. Worst editor since kdawson.
The more I think aboit it, the more I can't think of anything that apple has ever really contributed. Yes, they do spearhead some new technology, (Gui, firewire, zeroconf, etc) but they are re-engineered, polished existing technology. What have they ever done that wasn't a copy of what someone else has done? Do they even have an R&D dept?
People who think they know everything really piss off those of us that actually do.
you fucking moron.. windows 2000 -> windows xp is a god damned point release!!!
wake up and smell the stupidity around you.
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Yes, any time anyone is critical of Apple it's a troll. Get over yourself.