Apple vs. Microsoft: a Tale of Two Mobile Updates

snydeq writes "The latest mobile updates from Apple and Microsoft provide a stark contrast, one emblematic of the differences between the two companies, InfoWorld's Ted Samson writes. Militantly on time, Apple's iOS 4.3 update offers significant new functionality, total disregard for what Apple considers outdated systems, and mandated silencing of user complaints. Microsoft, meanwhile, has finally managed to push out an alleged February update to a subset of users, along with a lamentation about having to deal with handset and carrier fragmentation."

Comments

Tyranny sounds scary; it isn't.

[RyuuzakiTetsuya]

Apple really does take an authoritarian stance here. It's our platform, it's our patch, take it and shut up.

While tyranny is really scary, comparing that to the bumbling incompetence of Microsoft and the some of the various Android OEMs(and by some slight extension, Google), it really makes me appreciate the walled garden a little more.