The article isn't about product reliability, it's about brand identity. Brand identity is about awareness. As they say, any publicity is good publicity, it's who consumers are attracted to because of the brand.
Apple computers fail at roughly the same rate as any Intel-based PC (e.g. Dell, HP etc.) however, because of the coolness of the brand, I would much rather own a Macbook Pro rahter than a DELL XPS, or an iPhone rather than a Blackberry. It's the brand, nothing more.
Sun had as much to do with the "Bank rolling" as did M$. I find it interesting that the community isn't nearly as vitriolic with the former as they are with the latter.
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The problem isn't the FCC; the problem is a Congress that writes laws...
That's your first mistake: you assume that Congress wrote the law and the entrenched monopolist/duopolist lobby didn't.
The article isn't about product reliability, it's about brand identity. Brand identity is about awareness. As they say, any publicity is good publicity, it's who consumers are attracted to because of the brand. Apple computers fail at roughly the same rate as any Intel-based PC (e.g. Dell, HP etc.) however, because of the coolness of the brand, I would much rather own a Macbook Pro rahter than a DELL XPS, or an iPhone rather than a Blackberry. It's the brand, nothing more.
The real question: How much did M$ pay him to say this?
Sun had as much to do with the "Bank rolling" as did M$. I find it interesting that the community isn't nearly as vitriolic with the former as they are with the latter.