Re:Apple stole the iMac Mini idea from ePC
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Actually OSX is a LOT different from Windows and a lot less proprietary. In fact only the "eye candy" is proprietary. All the stuff we used to call "the operating system" is open source.
You can download it right here:
http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/10.3. 7/
There is a difference between the Apple music strategy and the Microsoft OS situation.
Apple's ipod/itunes "lock-in" was contrived before they were in the "near monopoly" position they are in now. This lock-in existed BEFORE they even gave us itunes for Windows. 95% of the computing world had a choice NOT to go with this "lock-in" but they did.
There is a big difference. Apple have stated from day one that they make the "whole widget" they have always been a hybrid software/hardware company. This is a continuance of that concept.
Contrast this with the MS Office/Windows combination. There is little doubt that success of one fed upon the other until MS had a near monopoly in both markets. This was actually fair strategy in the days before MS had the monoploy in these markets.
What is not fair strategy is for MS to use the monopoly that they NOW have in the OS space to leverage an unfair advantage somewhere else - like web browsers or media formats that postdate their rise to a monopoly in the OS space.
In order to "exploit" your monopoly, you have to be one first.
You are so right of course.
Hilariously when the iPod was first realeased I remember so many people saying "iPod, what kind of a name is that? It doesn't describe what it does at all." Now of course when people want to describe what MXR1987TWS does they say "you know, like an iPod"
The big difference here is that Apple would have to DROP about 60% market share to hit 18% of the digital HD-based jukebox market. I know we like to compare this situation to Apple dropping the ball with the Mac but this IS different.
Actually you can get an x86 that runs Darwin/X which is the same thing as OSX "except no aqua"......which is a bit like the same thing as Dolly Parton - just without the chest...
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Actually OSX is a LOT different from Windows and a lot less proprietary. In fact only the "eye candy" is proprietary. All the stuff we used to call "the operating system" is open source. You can download it right here: http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/10.3. 7/
There is a difference between the Apple music strategy and the Microsoft OS situation. Apple's ipod/itunes "lock-in" was contrived before they were in the "near monopoly" position they are in now. This lock-in existed BEFORE they even gave us itunes for Windows. 95% of the computing world had a choice NOT to go with this "lock-in" but they did. There is a big difference. Apple have stated from day one that they make the "whole widget" they have always been a hybrid software/hardware company. This is a continuance of that concept. Contrast this with the MS Office/Windows combination. There is little doubt that success of one fed upon the other until MS had a near monopoly in both markets. This was actually fair strategy in the days before MS had the monoploy in these markets. What is not fair strategy is for MS to use the monopoly that they NOW have in the OS space to leverage an unfair advantage somewhere else - like web browsers or media formats that postdate their rise to a monopoly in the OS space. In order to "exploit" your monopoly, you have to be one first.
You are so right of course. Hilariously when the iPod was first realeased I remember so many people saying "iPod, what kind of a name is that? It doesn't describe what it does at all." Now of course when people want to describe what MXR1987TWS does they say "you know, like an iPod"
The big difference here is that Apple would have to DROP about 60% market share to hit 18% of the digital HD-based jukebox market. I know we like to compare this situation to Apple dropping the ball with the Mac but this IS different.
Actually you can get an x86 that runs Darwin/X which is the same thing as OSX "except no aqua"... ...which is a bit like the same thing as Dolly Parton - just without the chest...
There are more than 12 Million Mac OS X users.