Apple products are way over-priced, and Apple's "control freakery" is a constant annoyance.
In terms of features, and performance, Apple often lags behind the competition.
Then there is the distastfulness of Apple's business practices. In this regard, Apple is worse than Microsoft by miles. From Apple's slave labor, to Apple's lack of environmental concerns, to Apple constant litigious scams.
Apple’s Europe-wide sales ban of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 has prompted confusion this morning, with uncertainty – including from Samsung itself – as to what impact it will have on store shelves. The sales injunction, awarded by a Dusseldorf appeals court earlier today, seemingly conflicts with a UK court ruling earlier in July which ruled that the 7.7-inch tablet had not, in fact, copied the iPad’s aesthetic.
Google's Unmerited Damage From Oracle v. Google -- The FOSSPatents Factor ~pj Tuesday, July 24 2012 @ 10:41 PM EDT Today, Florian Mueller of FOSSPatents writes1: In connection with Oracle v. Google, some malicious individuals as well as some gullible people (who parrot lies without fact-checking) later claimed that my purely factual reporting on what a public Google filing said Oracle demanded2 (which Oracle later corrected anyway) was a prediction of the outcome. Strong words, indeed. Let's take a closer look, not only at the article he links to, but to a broader slice of his body of work. Let's see if it's "purely factual reporting", shall we?
> Considering Google is using Motorola as a bludgeon to sue Apple
Those lawsuits were filed after a *flood* of Apple lawsuits against anybody who dared sell an Android product. Sadly, counter-suing is the only defense companies, like Google, have against litigous preditors like Apple.
The litigious scam company, known as "Apple" certainly deserves to lose market share.
Samsung Galaxy S III: 10 Million Sold http://www.informationweek.com/news/mobility/smart_phones/240004166
Google’s $250 16GB Nexus 7 tablet disappeared from Google’s online Play store over the weekend due to overwhelming demand http://www.pcworld.com/article/259660/googles_16gb_nexus_7_disappears_from_play_store.html
Why I abandoned the iPhone http://www.theage.com.au/digital-life/mobiles/why-i-abandoned-the-iphone-20120718-228xy.html
When it comes to computing devices, the smart business model is: control the standard, and the big money will follow. This strategy is working very well for Apple, and Microsoft, and used to work well for IBM.
Another smart business strategy is to "tax" the competition. Microsoft makes more on Android than Google. This is because of a flood of scam patents that Microsoft owns.
Seriously, on their platform MS has allowed everyone to play as they see fit for some time.
1) "on their platform" so what? That is just saying the MS is okay with MS.
2) MS is extremely closes. MS changed their office file formats to try and make them incomparable with openoffice. I don't think MS has been especially cooperative with SAMBA.
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For a newbie, the first thing I would suggest is a distro that has strong community support.
A newbie is going to need a significant amount of help.
Apple products are way over-priced, and Apple's "control freakery" is a constant annoyance.
In terms of features, and performance, Apple often lags behind the competition.
Then there is the distastfulness of Apple's business practices. In this regard, Apple is worse than Microsoft by miles. From Apple's slave labor, to Apple's lack of environmental concerns, to Apple constant litigious scams.
http://www.slashgear.com/mixed-galaxy-tab-7-7-rulings-confuse-even-samsung-but-it-may-not-matter-anyway-24239917/
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120724125504129
In fact, it set up a lot more easily than Windows.
However, I do agree that ten years ago Linux was more a hassle to set up.
Windows does have some advantages over Linux, but Linux is no longer a hassle to set up, far from it.
> And Gore pushed this financing really hard.
That's great. Good for Al Gore. But that is hardly "inventing" the internet, is it?
> Considering Google is using Motorola as a bludgeon to sue Apple
Those lawsuits were filed after a *flood* of Apple lawsuits against anybody who dared sell an Android product. Sadly, counter-suing is the only defense companies, like Google, have against litigous preditors like Apple.
When the Kindle Fire first came out, it was a decent tablet, for the price - even if it was crippled, and you were vendor-locked by Amazon.
Today, with great tablets, like the Nexus 7, so inexpense, why bother with proprietary, crippled, vendor-locked devices?
The litigious scam company, known as "Apple" certainly deserves to lose market share.
Samsung Galaxy S III: 10 Million Sold
http://www.informationweek.com/news/mobility/smart_phones/240004166
Google’s $250 16GB Nexus 7 tablet disappeared from Google’s online Play store over the weekend due to overwhelming demand
http://www.pcworld.com/article/259660/googles_16gb_nexus_7_disappears_from_play_store.html
Why I abandoned the iPhone
http://www.theage.com.au/digital-life/mobiles/why-i-abandoned-the-iphone-20120718-228xy.html
In related news:
Samsung Galaxy S III: 10 Million Sold
http://www.informationweek.com/news/mobility/smart_phones/240004166
Why I abandoned the iPhone
http://www.theage.com.au/digital-life/mobiles/why-i-abandoned-the-iphone-20120718-228xy.html
When I have to fix the PC, I just want to fix the PC. Please spare me any attempt to make a boring game out of it.
Your post is nothing but Google smearing speculation.
MS and Apple are guilty of trying to strong arm computer standards. MS was even caught bribing OSI officials to sanction MS's bogus OOXML standard.
What has Google done?
Because the laws did not seem to stop Breivik.
Gun laws did not seem to stop the Columbine shooters either - they did not obtain their guns legally.
Gotta love vendor lockin. MS wins, computer uses lose. What a bunch of saps.
2) Who cares?
3) Do normal really care that much about packaging? Or just apple snobs?
This is just another total BS patent that should have never been granted.
Apple copies all the time.
MS makes more money on Android than Google, thanks to MS's silly patents.
Taxing the competition also drives up costs for competitors, making your product more competitive.
When it comes to computing devices, the smart business model is: control the standard, and the big money will follow. This strategy is working very well for Apple, and Microsoft, and used to work well for IBM.
Another smart business strategy is to "tax" the competition. Microsoft makes more on Android than Google. This is because of a flood of scam patents that Microsoft owns.
At least it does not look that way to me. Or were you responding to somebody else?
Apple sent takedown letters to retailers selling Galaxy Nexus and Galaxy Tab 10.1
By Adi Robertson on July 13, 2012 03:31 pm
http://www.theverge.com/2012/7/13/3157505/apple-retailer-galaxy-nexus-tab-10-1-takedown-order
This has been trending for some time.
Please list US computer devices which are entirely developed in the USA. Thank you.
July 14, 2012: Samsung’s request for expedited Galaxy Nexus hearing accepted, Apple groups them with “pirates, thieves and counterfeiters”
http://phandroid.com/2012/07/14/samsungs-request-for-expedited-galaxy-nexus-hearing-accepted-apple-groups-them-with-pirates-thieves-and-counterfeiters/
That is what Apple advocates keep screaming.
1) "on their platform" so what? That is just saying the MS is okay with MS.
2) MS is extremely closes. MS changed their office file formats to try and make them incomparable with openoffice. I don't think MS has been especially cooperative with SAMBA.
Don't kid yourself. These actions by Apple drive up prices, kill innovation, and limit choice.