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Apple Platform Lock-Ins, A 3rd Party Dev's Opinion
Iftekhar writes "Wil Shipley, of Delicious Monster fame, has written a very candid essay on what he perceives as Apple's growing trend toward platform lock-ins. He writes: 'Why is the iPhone locked to a single carrier, so I can't travel internationally with it? There's really only one viable reason: Apple wanted a share of the carrier's profits, which meant giving AT&T an exclusive deal. Which meant, we get screwed so Apple can make more money. It's that simple. [...] As Apple gets more and more of its revenue from non-Mac devices, they are also getting more and more of their revenue from devices that simply exclude third parties. Consumers suffer from this. We suffer from increased prices and decreased competition and innovation. We suffer so Apple can make a few more bucks, when Apple is clearly not hurting for money.'"
APPLE should come out with mac osx86 for all systems or at least have a head less mid-range desktop mac.
AIO don't work that well in the rest of the pc world. Also the i-macs only come with a ati 2600 pro video card with is slower at games then the cards in the older imacs.
The mini is to weak and over priced for what you get GMA 950, 80GB Serial ATA drive laptop drive, no Keyboard & Mouse Sets, Combo Drive, 1gb of ram 2x512, 1.83GHz laptop cpu $599? add $200 to get a SuperDrive 8x, 120GB Serial ATA drive laptop drive, and a 2GHz laptop cpu at $799?
The mac pro is over priced starting at $2200 and only 1gb of ram? also the FB-DIMMS at $300 a gig apple price OWC has them at $100 a gig, $150 for a 7300gt, and Add $249 to get a x1900 ati card?