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Apple, the New Microsoft?
VE3OGG writes "Apple, the ultimate source of cool. The marketers of slick. The next 'evil empire'? While it might sound goofy at first, Rolling Stone magazine is running an article that summarizes some very interesting points that detail how Apple could become the next technology bad guy. Among the reasons given: Apple's call to be rid of DRM (while continuing to use it in iTunes); Apple's perceived arrogance when they warned consumers not to upgrade to Vista, while not rushing to fix the problem themselves; and Apple's seemingly unstoppable market dominance in the form of the iPod. The iPhone featured heavily as well, a product that is months from release but steals the press from more competitive products. What do you think, could Apple eventually take the place of Microsoft?"
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MS, as said above, will always dominate the market. Their OS is destined to reign somewhat supremely over the industry. Apple has the market on MP3 plays though, but I doubt they will have an increase in mac users any time soon.
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I've been hating Apple for months now! I can't understand how everyone else can't despise how ubiquitous the ipod has become. I'm prepared to personally stoke the fires of hatred for Apple.
Focusing just on Apple's pipeline they are going to be in for some hard times ahead. Apple's iPhone is far to restricted to be adopted.
No kidding. While it may have wireless, it has less space than a Nomad. Lame.
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United Fruit!
Microsoft didn't always suck ...
Back in the day, using Microsoft BASIC on a C-64, I was pretty happy. Since then it's been downhill.
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I realize Apple traditionally plays to the musical and artistic types (among others), but where did the long haired, dope smoking, rock and roll types at Rolling Stone get the idea that this was a two-way street on which they could be competent journalists of matters of IT and the tech industry? Apparently the drugs are affecting their grasp of reality more than they realized. What's next: VIBE giving a breakdown of Windows Vista's security and performance issues, or Cat Fanciers magazine explaining why Ruby on Rails will eclipse Java, PHP, Perl, and ASP.NET as the web platform for the next fifty years?
Actually, scratch that last one -- there isn't enough drugs or catnip in the world to come to a conclusion like that...
Will we have to start calling them APP£E?
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Don't you mean commie's ?
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I predict that Steve Jobs will hold a naked press conference in bed with Yoko Ono. He'll then be shot by a gunman, who turns out to have a copy of the Apple Human Interface Guidelines on his person. When taken into custody and questioned, the gunman will just repeat "Your application will have the same modern, elegant appearance as other Mac OS X applications." over and over again.
Following a period of mourning, Yoko Ono will replace Steve Jobs as CEO. New models of Mac will have the form factor of a single red rose in a glass case, and the startup chime will be Yoko reciting her shopping list continuously in nasal Japanese. Thus demonstrating man's inhumanity towards man. Ringo Starr will launch a new solo album.
... and then they built the supercollider.
No
even if Apple became evil, the allpervading smell of mediocrity in any Microsoft product is competely absent at Apple.
Bye
Bart
P.S. the only exception I can think of is Excel.