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Apple vs Microsoft- Who's the Copycat?
torrensmith writes "Paul Thurrott attacks the Apple Mac OS X Leopard Preview. He does have a few kind words for Apple and its leader Steve Jobs ("They do good work. It's too bad they feel the need to exaggerate so much.", but overall, he rips apart Apple for mimicking Vista, even going so far as to call the Apple fascination with Vista "childish."
Paul does include a healthy review of the latest Leopard features, but quickly returned to his bashing of Apple. "
Them is both copies of window managers for linux, period.
...that the Apple faithful doesn't want to tag as Apple, given the title?
Instead of a fair review, he takes every opportunity to bash Apple. Let's not mention the thousands of features Windows stole from Apple, no, that would be way too fair. What a putz.
More than any other company I cover regularly, Apple plays light and loose with facts. [...] More to the point, Apple's explosion growth in 2005 did nothing to help the Mac's market share, which is still mired at 2 percent worldwide. In other words, Steve's claim is baloney: Apple hasn't really gained any appreciable market share at all--indeed, Apple has lost market share every year since Jobs took the CEO helm--but his comment is technically true: In the slice of time that is the second quarter of 2006, Apple gained--get this--about 1/10th of one percent of market share. And the WWDC crowd goes wild.
I despise Apple-the-company for a lot of reasons, but this is the biggest one. They LIE. From the "twice as fast" ads to the current ads about PCs crashing, they LIE LIE LIE and constantly LIE.
Whenever I bring this up, Apple fans always give me the ol' "yeah, but everyone does it." Everyone does NOT do it to the extent Apple does it. I can't think of any company that is even in the same ballpark as Apple when it comes to dishonesty.
And it's not just marketing dishonesty. It's things like, "The cracks in the cube are designed to be there". I still recall shaking my head at that.
Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.
How is this different from "Windows 95 = Mac '86"?
Apology to Ubuntu forum.
I said essentially the same thing in my blog the other day: "Leopard - Is Apple Late to the Party, Again?" http://mikesalsbury.com/mambo/content/view/519/ Apple seems to have this habit of taking an existing technology (like an MP3 player, a GUI, etc.) putting a slightly prettier package on it, and acting as though they invented it.
windows for sure cannot, osx, as the guy above indicated, can, using a cool hack.
shiny candy colored UIs are all fine and dandy, but for fucks sake, why the hell would one have that on a SERVER? microsoft advertises that shit as a SERVER OS, and, sadly, some clueless people go for it. I have seen farms of NT 3.51 and 4.0 servers, creepy, creepy stuff.
Does apple make 'servers' too? I don't think so, but I am usually wrong about this type of stuff.
"Contrary to popular belief, UNIX is user friendly. It just happens to be selective on who it makes friendship with"
Can anyone confirm the rumor that Apple has removed the OPTION key from all new Mac Pro keyboards? I guess Options are a sensitive subject in Cupertino these days. Yes, Jobs did look rather gaunt and drawn during the keynote. But bear two things in mind: 1. He is a recovering pancreatic cancer victim. 2. He is either a vegan or vegetarian (or a vulcan?) Jobs did seem to rely upon his exec staff more than in the past, but it did afford us the opportunity to size them up a bit. A few observations. 1. Phil Schiller looks as though he could hold his own in a Sumo wrestling bout with Steve Ballmer. 2. Bertrand sounded as though he was auditioning for the Inspector Clouseau part in The Pink Panther. 3. Scott Forrestall (flunky!?!) appeared to be aping Steve Jobs' gestures, mannerisms and speech patterns. Is he the anointed one? Is he being groomed as Jobs' successor? If it happens, you read it here first. Like most of Wall Street and the world, I and other Apple stockholders hope that neither illness nor executive shuffling prevent Jobs -- duplicitous as he may be -- from helming Apple for some time to come.
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