My GOD what a bunch of Apple-branded opium addicts posts on this boards!
You just can't compare Apple to Microsoft. Apple hasn't lied in court, crippled competitors' applications on their OS, claimed their code is open yet restricted to non-NDA people, bribed government officials to get their systems into widespread government and military use, given lots of campaign donations in order to pressure their antitrust trial, and developed a PDA OS that only works with one kind of desktop OS.
You know what? This reminds me of a line in The Godfather, when Michael speaks with his wife-to-be Kay at his sister's wedding, talking about his father's killing of adversaries: Michael: My father is no different than any powerful man, any man with power, like a president or senator. Kay: Do you know how naive you sound, Michael? Presidents and senators don't have men killed. Michael:Oh. Who's being naive, Kay?
Apple is just like any other company and they share a hell of a lot in common with Microsoft (or Google or IBM or Sun or Red Hat or whoever for that matter) than we might imagine.
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My GOD what a bunch of Apple-branded opium addicts posts on this boards!
You just can't compare Apple to Microsoft. Apple hasn't lied in court, crippled competitors' applications on their OS, claimed their code is open yet restricted to non-NDA people, bribed government officials to get their systems into widespread government and military use, given lots of campaign donations in order to pressure their antitrust trial, and developed a PDA OS that only works with one kind of desktop OS.
You know what? This reminds me of a line in The Godfather, when Michael speaks with his wife-to-be Kay at his sister's wedding, talking about his father's killing of adversaries:
Michael: My father is no different than any powerful man, any man with power, like a president or senator.
Kay: Do you know how naive you sound, Michael? Presidents and senators don't have men killed.
Michael: Oh. Who's being naive, Kay?
Apple is just like any other company and they share a hell of a lot in common with Microsoft (or Google or IBM or Sun or Red Hat or whoever for that matter) than we might imagine.