If you think OS X is a BSD distro as Aqua windowmanager running top of it and one day if you decide to actually understand what OS X is, it will actually shock you.
You may have hard time understanding "How the hell that schizoid thing got success?" Once I decided to learn about "what OS X actually is, where does XNU come from, if there is FreeBSD layer, what the heck it does? What the hell is _psn argument Opera complains about", I asked myself that question.
Start with reading NeXT history and while staring at Safari.exe on your Windows, think about future. Check OpenStep too. Also think why Mac executable format has been upgraded to support up to 10 different arch while Apple switched to Intel giving up PPC.
Adobe Turkish branch is clearly interested in selling CS3 etc. stuff to people rather than Elements for OS X. Adobe's online store used to send me to Korean store (!!!) when I attempted but I think they fixed it, they basically don't list my country. I tried Amazon of course, even somehow prepared to pay for $20 for shipping to a DVD I won't touch. Luckily (!) they don't offer it to my country too.
We aren't in axis of evil or anything. Adobe just doesn't know that in certain parts of World, people can't buy their software even if they want to. Or, basically they think we won't buy anyway.
I actually have trial of software which is same, I just can't buy it:) Also remember I downloaded 1 gigabytes of data from Adobe already while not giving (can't) anything back. It sounds more absurd while writing it. Adobe in fact shipped their software to me in terms of bandwidth. They just forgot the way to "sell" it.
To give a clue about how hard I tried, I am the Turkish guy who tried to buy it from Kyoto and Osaka Apple selling stores respectively. Yes, from Japan. Japanese people couldn't be convinced that software will come in english (they know Adobe very well too) so they didn't sell it to me.
Just like Apple people must be bitching about low sales of OS X Leopard in tiny Turkish market but their distributor says "Out of stock" for... 5 months! I bought that one from Hong Kong.
"Did you stop to consider that perhaps they only contributed one driver because that's all that was needed?"
Realtek NIC, that was my point. You just don't put it to anything, leave it to people who thinks paying $10 for NIC makes them more clever than people buying $20 good NIC cards which won't degrade OS performance by 20%.
Lived the experience, how wouldn't I get alerted when I hear that brand? Just putting that chip to something intended to run OS X proves Apple's point. Don't you think I wouldn't be happy if some actually high end companies like Tyan ship sort of specialised machines for my business running OS X? Giving credit to those "sue me Apple, my master wants it so bad" companies really disturbs me. They aren't heroes or anything and there are lots of difference in Apple hardware , even after Intel switch. When did high tech white box companies adopt EFI? They still run BIOS junk. Oh wait, adopting EFI was also part of evil plan right?
If Apple makes me nuts enough (I am a Quad G5 user) and if I am forced to move Intel, I will build my own workstation again and guess the OS which it will be running? Windows Vista since it will perform significantly better with hardware I choose.
Some cars will choke if you put gasoline intented for super cars to them, that is what Apple is afraid of.
launchd, core whatever technology won't save anything from junk introduced by realtek nic or "super 7.1 audio" something audio card and their badly written drivers. If there was a way, MS would have found it.
4 of my friends bought a Mac last year. Their reason was exactly "It just works", nothing else. They had no clue about inner workings of OS X, how modern it is, how evil MS is or they didn't even care about them.
For them, having a laptop which will boot to desktop each time you turn on/wake from sleep is something like "magic".
I don't think a generic, cheap parts PC can offer that kind of experience and it automatically makes Apple's prestige and brand value obsolete.
It is why this troll company should be investigated by IT media. I don't expect it from CNET if you understand what I mean.
After years on the Internet, I have a very good sense about trolls.
Pystar could be the first troll company and they are currently winning because Apple "replies" to them.
People obviously ask the point of it. Would you dare to ship "Windows Vista" on a no name CDR and sell it on street next to police station? For Apple, a computer running OS X is not very different from OS X DVD copy.
It will be so hard to make people understand that there are 2 different philosophies on Desktop OS. One is Microsoft and other is Apple. Pystar tries to do "Microsoft" to Apple. Apple wouldn't exist if their hardware/software combination magic didn't work.
Person marked me as "flamebaiter" would be surprised but I am not really a big USB2 hater. For example, my colour laser is connected via USB2 and performing really good. Also my scanner, my time machine backup drive and so on.
I seriously wonder if Intel really stopped such childish "use CPU" or "don't include overhead in speed" tricks as they are in very good shape now.
I will plant 120 meters of cable just because of USB2 CPU overhead, imagine that. I seriously didn't know the overhead could hurt that much.
Considering how that little troll junk PC maker creates feedback on technical sites as there are even people seeing them as "heroes", this could be one gigantic companies "Sink Apple's image" operation too.
See what kind of a huge fight, boycott campaign Novell creates just by agreeing with Microsoft and how Linux desktop is being divided by "mono", "non mono" fight... Not related to my theory, just giving an example;)
Another funny thing is, Apple kept shipping Darwin ISO binaries freely to x86 Machines and nobody got interested. Some clever people figured they may also have a Quicktime server that way (which perfectly performs) but that is all.
IMHO you can have a very advanced OS X experience (minus Adobe/iTools) via installing FreeBSD 6 and running WindowMaker on top of it. Games? Well, even after Intel switch, scene doesn't look that bright anyway:)
If it was 1990s which clones were legal, Apple wouldn't license Mac to Pystar company. If you look at the clone makers, they were very well established companies with years of experience in Macintosh market.
Apple founder believes software and hardware should be perfectly integrated just like your average household device. They even do same thing on iPhone. Why nobody thinks about the possibility of licensing iPhone OS to other handset manufacturers? Because they are phones? Well, for Apple, a computer should be like a phone which runs software perfectly. That includes OS X itself.
If you consider your nice little guys only help to OSXFree86 community was providing "realtek nic driver", you can get a very goood clue about the quality of those computers.
In any company, you must also put "projected legal costs" to the price. For a company which will obviously get sued by Apple which is known to have very, very evil lawyers, the legal costs will be very high. They are making great loss right now.
I think Compaq had Microsoft and some part of Government/Corporate scene who is very afraid of IBM monopoly behind them.
Microsoft was allowed to license MS-DOS to _anyone which wants_ from the beginning. It is part of their agreement with IBM and it is why BillG and Ballmer are called "visionary". There is no such thing on OS X. Apple believes in integrated hardware/software combination from the very beginning.
Having reports like "I pressed power button but my Mac slept 10 secs later, it must be broken" is very common on Apple scene. It is nothing on a PC running Windows or Clone OS X.
What those idiots did is also convincing Apple that clones/licensed machines was always a bad idea. They ship JUNK PC.
I don't think any sane company will break Apple's agreements, licenses on USA soil.
Remember the company shipped "Apple G6 Desktop" and got sued big time? It wasn't based at USA and they weren't trying that hard to get sued. Some media guy browsing Alibaba found the machine, that is all.
For some reason we can't know, Pystar looks like they will be very, very happy if Apple sues them further or this thing becomes more complex.
Would you dare to mess with a gigantic company who even tried to sue State of New York for "Apple" logo? If you dare, would you start your business in USA? Some very big promises/guarantees by very big corporate powers must be given to Pystar. Don't get surprised if there is real IT media left and uncovers it.
"Almost certainly, because unlike Firewire, USB ports are "dumb" and all of the processing is done at the CPU. More data will mean more processing required. Whether the increase is linear or parabolic I cannot tell you."
The fact that it is designed and supported/sponsored by a CPU making company which will die if people don't upgrade their machines (CPUs) every year is just a co-incidence right?:)
If there is again same trick, I wonder something. Will Intel get sued?
They sue Microsoft (Vista capable), Apple (straches on iPod screen!) but they don't sue Intel and other members of USB gang lying to people for years.
I don't even get into that "hot coffee" story.
I keep seeing "480Mbps!!!" on junk devices and will buy 120 meters of CAT5 cable because my Mac Mini dies because of USB2 811.g dongle's 40% CPU overhead. Same Mini G4 does 40MB/sec on a Firewire 400 drive without any CPU usage.
Lets hope Firewire guys ship the promised 1600/3200 stuff soon. I opt in for real 3200 mbit rather than "therotical" 5 gigabit, thank you:)
While watching 480Mbps (!) USB 2 connected drive trying to backup at 10-12 MB/sec while my 400mbit firewire drive can hit 40MB/sec, this question popped up in my mind. "Is it up to real 5Gbps?"
Another more important question: "What is the CPU overhead?" as I can see a wireless 811.g USB2 adapter use 40% of CPU. I notified my OS (kernel) vendor about it, they lectured me about the USB protocol and its overhead on CPU. Well deserved:)
That is how companies work in age of 2008 where people uses 2-3 different operating systems in a day.
I am not your average "anti M$" guy to pick at, I am just telling that kind of actions will result in some kind of reaction, it depends on the money company has and it is not infinite.
I can't comment about the technology since I can't view it!
First line should be: "Absurd thing is, they buy out the researchers and "don't use" a fake multiplatform thing like Silverlight to impress/trick people about its possibilities." (blame coffee)
Absurd thing is, they buy out the researchers and at least use a fake multiplatform thing like Silverlight to impress/trick people about its possibilities.
So, Linux thing has become Windows only as result of buyout. Complete Microsoft way of doing things and exactly why people like me says "Stay away from Silverlight,.NET, their open source clones and people involved with them."
That is the "open source loving" Microsoft for you which will transform itself to multiplatform company. If you buy it...
Of course, as it is from Microsoft, the software displaying photos mostly edited on Mac OS X won't work on photographers number 1 choice OS.
Why did I bother anyway? More importantly, how long will Microsoft stay this way? Look at General Motors and see what happens to gigantic, untouchable companies when they become spoiled.
Are you a racist who thinks only Americans live on this planet? I ask since you seem to understand my post very good in fact, automagically defending Apple against one Anti Apple foreigner (!) who paid $160 for family license I bet you have never thought of paying.
Now the reply to your post: "If you had bothered to search Google, you would have easily found a Safari extension named Inquisitor X, which adds more functionality to Safari's search ability and lets you change the engine. No binary hacks required."
It is a code injection hack, if OS X had a real antivirus instead of snake oil sellers, it would jump up and down. Wonder why it is injected or input manager needed? Because there is NO mechanism to actually change that "ein" search engine "für alles".
"No, it makes perfect sense. Apple is all about presenting users with the single, best option rather than giving them multiple choices, and Google is the best option for 99% of users."
If we think that way, Windows is the best option for 92% of American market and 98% of real World market. So perhaps Apple should give up shipping OS X and become a Windows reseller.
""It is also unsafe since some black hat guy may popup and say "I coded search engine chooser", you know the result when users got used to hack system binaries."" "What does this sentence even mean?"
It has only 1 "green underlining" so it is grammatically correct but somehow, sort of weird sentence which is designed to make the point but not to give ideas to some script kiddie idiots. As far as I can tell, it worked.;)
A quote I remember from Bill G , at least meaning: "One day, a better solution can be made by a single person and everyone may switch to it making us completely crash".
A really interesting, unique search engine could be made to actually race with Google and next day, you see everyone uses it. It is same for Apple too.
I remember stars of search before Google, they all faded away.
I personally stay away from Google search unless completely neccessary, I can keep couple of other search engine names in my mind and use them for the jobs best fit for the job. I don't think Google search results are quality ones anymore, full of viruses/worms/SEO hacks and actually autonomic sites which are just designed to spam Google results appear. As they don't bother with Yahoo Search or even "Live Search", I choose Yahoo or ask.com:) For example, ask.com guys made very interesting things lately with search results.
If your 1% market share target iPhone can force Nokia, Sony Ericsson to take huge, really huge decisions and change concept of things. You are way more powerful than you seem to be.
Look at Google... At least Apple produces some stuff that you can hold in your hand. That is Google: http://www.google.com/ . That is all. Why doesn't Google market cap and numbers surprise anyone really?
I paid $160 or something for OS X Leopard family license and the default browser of OS X (which is really good on 10.5) still comes with Google search as default without ANY easy or safe way to change it. It also sends ?safari type of string to Google which is perfectly acceptable for a company like Opera or organisation like Firefox which covers their costs. The idea is, when I paid for OS X and Apple hardware, I have already paid for Safari and Webkit development. I don't have to use a search engine which displays either worms or viruses for my search terms/my area.
Now , as 10.5.4 is somewhat stable, I dared to hack Safari (it is good, I repeat) via Input Manager Inquisitor which was acquired by Yahoo (guess why!) and used its option to my favorite search engine, Yahoo search. I am not very impressed with new fashion "search as you type" etc. stuff, it is just installed to change Search engine via good code rather than binary hacks.
I was especially mad when I run IE 7 and IE 8 beta on my junk Virtual PC. Microsoft actually ASKS "What to use for search?". Microsoft! The owner of MSN!
Apple isn't a struggling company which has great inventions being ignored by general public anymore, they are on rocket rise and became de facto standard in some scenes. Having Google search forced to users doesn't really make sense and it is really looking amateur. It is also unsafe since some black hat guy may popup and say "I coded search engine chooser", you know the result when users got used to hack system binaries.
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If you think OS X is a BSD distro as Aqua windowmanager running top of it and one day if you decide to actually understand what OS X is, it will actually shock you.
You may have hard time understanding "How the hell that schizoid thing got success?" Once I decided to learn about "what OS X actually is, where does XNU come from, if there is FreeBSD layer, what the heck it does? What the hell is _psn argument Opera complains about", I asked myself that question.
Start with reading NeXT history and while staring at Safari.exe on your Windows, think about future. Check OpenStep too. Also think why Mac executable format has been upgraded to support up to 10 different arch while Apple switched to Intel giving up PPC.
I can't buy that Elements software. No kidding.
Adobe Turkish branch is clearly interested in selling CS3 etc. stuff to people rather than Elements for OS X. Adobe's online store used to send me to Korean store (!!!) when I attempted but I think they fixed it, they basically don't list my country. I tried Amazon of course, even somehow prepared to pay for $20 for shipping to a DVD I won't touch. Luckily (!) they don't offer it to my country too.
We aren't in axis of evil or anything. Adobe just doesn't know that in certain parts of World, people can't buy their software even if they want to. Or, basically they think we won't buy anyway.
I actually have trial of software which is same, I just can't buy it :) Also remember I downloaded 1 gigabytes of data from Adobe already while not giving (can't) anything back. It sounds more absurd while writing it. Adobe in fact shipped their software to me in terms of bandwidth. They just forgot the way to "sell" it.
To give a clue about how hard I tried, I am the Turkish guy who tried to buy it from Kyoto and Osaka Apple selling stores respectively. Yes, from Japan. Japanese people couldn't be convinced that software will come in english (they know Adobe very well too) so they didn't sell it to me.
Just like Apple people must be bitching about low sales of OS X Leopard in tiny Turkish market but their distributor says "Out of stock" for... 5 months! I bought that one from Hong Kong.
"Did you stop to consider that perhaps they only contributed one driver because that's all that was needed?"
Realtek NIC, that was my point. You just don't put it to anything, leave it to people who thinks paying $10 for NIC makes them more clever than people buying $20 good NIC cards which won't degrade OS performance by 20%.
Lived the experience, how wouldn't I get alerted when I hear that brand? Just putting that chip to something intended to run OS X proves Apple's point. Don't you think I wouldn't be happy if some actually high end companies like Tyan ship sort of specialised machines for my business running OS X? Giving credit to those "sue me Apple, my master wants it so bad" companies really disturbs me. They aren't heroes or anything and there are lots of difference in Apple hardware , even after Intel switch. When did high tech white box companies adopt EFI? They still run BIOS junk. Oh wait, adopting EFI was also part of evil plan right?
If Apple makes me nuts enough (I am a Quad G5 user) and if I am forced to move Intel, I will build my own workstation again and guess the OS which it will be running? Windows Vista since it will perform significantly better with hardware I choose.
Some cars will choke if you put gasoline intented for super cars to them, that is what Apple is afraid of.
launchd, core whatever technology won't save anything from junk introduced by realtek nic or "super 7.1 audio" something audio card and their badly written drivers. If there was a way, MS would have found it.
4 of my friends bought a Mac last year. Their reason was exactly "It just works", nothing else. They had no clue about inner workings of OS X, how modern it is, how evil MS is or they didn't even care about them.
For them, having a laptop which will boot to desktop each time you turn on/wake from sleep is something like "magic".
I don't think a generic, cheap parts PC can offer that kind of experience and it automatically makes Apple's prestige and brand value obsolete.
It is why this troll company should be investigated by IT media. I don't expect it from CNET if you understand what I mean.
After years on the Internet, I have a very good sense about trolls.
Pystar could be the first troll company and they are currently winning because Apple "replies" to them.
People obviously ask the point of it. Would you dare to ship "Windows Vista" on a no name CDR and sell it on street next to police station? For Apple, a computer running OS X is not very different from OS X DVD copy.
It will be so hard to make people understand that there are 2 different philosophies on Desktop OS. One is Microsoft and other is Apple. Pystar tries to do "Microsoft" to Apple. Apple wouldn't exist if their hardware/software combination magic didn't work.
If they win, anyone can ship OS X installed PC and believe me there are lot better companies with very known brands to ship it.
So it is like a suicide mission but for who?
Person marked me as "flamebaiter" would be surprised but I am not really a big USB2 hater. For example, my colour laser is connected via USB2 and performing really good. Also my scanner, my time machine backup drive and so on.
I seriously wonder if Intel really stopped such childish "use CPU" or "don't include overhead in speed" tricks as they are in very good shape now.
I will plant 120 meters of cable just because of USB2 CPU overhead, imagine that. I seriously didn't know the overhead could hurt that much.
Considering how that little troll junk PC maker creates feedback on technical sites as there are even people seeing them as "heroes", this could be one gigantic companies "Sink Apple's image" operation too.
See what kind of a huge fight, boycott campaign Novell creates just by agreeing with Microsoft and how Linux desktop is being divided by "mono", "non mono" fight... Not related to my theory, just giving an example ;)
Another funny thing is, Apple kept shipping Darwin ISO binaries freely to x86 Machines and nobody got interested. Some clever people figured they may also have a Quicktime server that way (which perfectly performs) but that is all.
IMHO you can have a very advanced OS X experience (minus Adobe/iTools) via installing FreeBSD 6 and running WindowMaker on top of it. Games? Well, even after Intel switch, scene doesn't look that bright anyway :)
If it was 1990s which clones were legal, Apple wouldn't license Mac to Pystar company. If you look at the clone makers, they were very well established companies with years of experience in Macintosh market.
Apple founder believes software and hardware should be perfectly integrated just like your average household device. They even do same thing on iPhone. Why nobody thinks about the possibility of licensing iPhone OS to other handset manufacturers? Because they are phones? Well, for Apple, a computer should be like a phone which runs software perfectly. That includes OS X itself.
If you consider your nice little guys only help to OSXFree86 community was providing "realtek nic driver", you can get a very goood clue about the quality of those computers.
They are fraud, nothing else.
In any company, you must also put "projected legal costs" to the price. For a company which will obviously get sued by Apple which is known to have very, very evil lawyers, the legal costs will be very high. They are making great loss right now.
I think Compaq had Microsoft and some part of Government/Corporate scene who is very afraid of IBM monopoly behind them.
Microsoft was allowed to license MS-DOS to _anyone which wants_ from the beginning. It is part of their agreement with IBM and it is why BillG and Ballmer are called "visionary". There is no such thing on OS X. Apple believes in integrated hardware/software combination from the very beginning.
Having reports like "I pressed power button but my Mac slept 10 secs later, it must be broken" is very common on Apple scene. It is nothing on a PC running Windows or Clone OS X.
What those idiots did is also convincing Apple that clones/licensed machines was always a bad idea. They ship JUNK PC.
I don't think any sane company will break Apple's agreements, licenses on USA soil.
Remember the company shipped "Apple G6 Desktop" and got sued big time? It wasn't based at USA and they weren't trying that hard to get sued. Some media guy browsing Alibaba found the machine, that is all.
For some reason we can't know, Pystar looks like they will be very, very happy if Apple sues them further or this thing becomes more complex.
Would you dare to mess with a gigantic company who even tried to sue State of New York for "Apple" logo? If you dare, would you start your business in USA? Some very big promises/guarantees by very big corporate powers must be given to Pystar. Don't get surprised if there is real IT media left and uncovers it.
"Almost certainly, because unlike Firewire, USB ports are "dumb" and all of the processing is done at the CPU. More data will mean more processing required. Whether the increase is linear or parabolic I cannot tell you."
The fact that it is designed and supported/sponsored by a CPU making company which will die if people don't upgrade their machines (CPUs) every year is just a co-incidence right? :)
If there is again same trick, I wonder something. Will Intel get sued?
They sue Microsoft (Vista capable), Apple (straches on iPod screen!) but they don't sue Intel and other members of USB gang lying to people for years.
I don't even get into that "hot coffee" story.
I keep seeing "480Mbps!!!" on junk devices and will buy 120 meters of CAT5 cable because my Mac Mini dies because of USB2 811.g dongle's 40% CPU overhead. Same Mini G4 does 40MB/sec on a Firewire 400 drive without any CPU usage.
Lets hope Firewire guys ship the promised 1600/3200 stuff soon. I opt in for real 3200 mbit rather than "therotical" 5 gigabit, thank you :)
While watching 480Mbps (!) USB 2 connected drive trying to backup at 10-12 MB/sec while my 400mbit firewire drive can hit 40MB/sec, this question popped up in my mind. "Is it up to real 5Gbps?"
Another more important question: "What is the CPU overhead?" as I can see a wireless 811.g USB2 adapter use 40% of CPU. I notified my OS (kernel) vendor about it, they lectured me about the USB protocol and its overhead on CPU. Well deserved :)
http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html . See how many platforms supported?
That is how companies work in age of 2008 where people uses 2-3 different operating systems in a day.
I am not your average "anti M$" guy to pick at, I am just telling that kind of actions will result in some kind of reaction, it depends on the money company has and it is not infinite.
I can't comment about the technology since I can't view it!
First line should be:
"Absurd thing is, they buy out the researchers and "don't use" a fake multiplatform thing like Silverlight to impress/trick people about its possibilities."
(blame coffee)
Absurd thing is, they buy out the researchers and at least use a fake multiplatform thing like Silverlight to impress/trick people about its possibilities.
So, Linux thing has become Windows only as result of buyout. Complete Microsoft way of doing things and exactly why people like me says "Stay away from Silverlight, .NET, their open source clones and people involved with them."
That is the "open source loving" Microsoft for you which will transform itself to multiplatform company. If you buy it...
Of course, as it is from Microsoft, the software displaying photos mostly edited on Mac OS X won't work on photographers number 1 choice OS.
Why did I bother anyway? More importantly, how long will Microsoft stay this way? Look at General Motors and see what happens to gigantic, untouchable companies when they become spoiled.
Market doesn't mercy, really...
Are you a racist who thinks only Americans live on this planet? I ask since you seem to understand my post very good in fact, automagically defending Apple against one Anti Apple foreigner (!) who paid $160 for family license I bet you have never thought of paying.
Now the reply to your post:
"If you had bothered to search Google, you would have easily found a Safari extension named Inquisitor X, which adds more functionality to Safari's search ability and lets you change the engine. No binary hacks required."
It is a code injection hack, if OS X had a real antivirus instead of snake oil sellers, it would jump up and down. Wonder why it is injected or input manager needed? Because there is NO mechanism to actually change that "ein" search engine "für alles".
"No, it makes perfect sense. Apple is all about presenting users with the single, best option rather than giving them multiple choices, and Google is the best option for 99% of users."
If we think that way, Windows is the best option for 92% of American market and 98% of real World market. So perhaps Apple should give up shipping OS X and become a Windows reseller.
""It is also unsafe since some black hat guy may popup and say "I coded search engine chooser", you know the result when users got used to hack system binaries.""
"What does this sentence even mean?"
It has only 1 "green underlining" so it is grammatically correct but somehow, sort of weird sentence which is designed to make the point but not to give ideas to some script kiddie idiots. As far as I can tell, it worked. ;)
A quote I remember from Bill G , at least meaning: "One day, a better solution can be made by a single person and everyone may switch to it making us completely crash".
A really interesting, unique search engine could be made to actually race with Google and next day, you see everyone uses it. It is same for Apple too.
I remember stars of search before Google, they all faded away.
I personally stay away from Google search unless completely neccessary, I can keep couple of other search engine names in my mind and use them for the jobs best fit for the job. I don't think Google search results are quality ones anymore, full of viruses/worms/SEO hacks and actually autonomic sites which are just designed to spam Google results appear. As they don't bother with Yahoo Search or even "Live Search", I choose Yahoo or ask.com :) For example, ask.com guys made very interesting things lately with search results.
If your 1% market share target iPhone can force Nokia, Sony Ericsson to take huge, really huge decisions and change concept of things. You are way more powerful than you seem to be.
Look at Google... At least Apple produces some stuff that you can hold in your hand. That is Google: http://www.google.com/ . That is all. Why doesn't Google market cap and numbers surprise anyone really?
I paid $160 or something for OS X Leopard family license and the default browser of OS X (which is really good on 10.5) still comes with Google search as default without ANY easy or safe way to change it. It also sends ?safari type of string to Google which is perfectly acceptable for a company like Opera or organisation like Firefox which covers their costs. The idea is, when I paid for OS X and Apple hardware, I have already paid for Safari and Webkit development. I don't have to use a search engine which displays either worms or viruses for my search terms/my area.
Now , as 10.5.4 is somewhat stable, I dared to hack Safari (it is good, I repeat) via Input Manager Inquisitor which was acquired by Yahoo (guess why!) and used its option to my favorite search engine, Yahoo search. I am not very impressed with new fashion "search as you type" etc. stuff, it is just installed to change Search engine via good code rather than binary hacks.
I was especially mad when I run IE 7 and IE 8 beta on my junk Virtual PC. Microsoft actually ASKS "What to use for search?". Microsoft! The owner of MSN!
Apple isn't a struggling company which has great inventions being ignored by general public anymore, they are on rocket rise and became de facto standard in some scenes. Having Google search forced to users doesn't really make sense and it is really looking amateur. It is also unsafe since some black hat guy may popup and say "I coded search engine chooser", you know the result when users got used to hack system binaries.