Apple really has pulled the wool over everybodies eyes for the past 5 years. This company is no different than Microsoft, just better at marketing to teens.
Answer me this: Why is a controlled hardware enviroment any better for innovation than a controlled software inviroment? Apple would have put the screws to everybody and have been the same abusing monopoly as microsoft had they had the money. What really sucks is that the third choice is just as bad. Linux is still dominated by snobbishness that has ruled it since its inception. Linux doesn't want to be the computer for "everybody" it wants to be the computer for people that know computers. No attempt has ever been made to make it easy to use or reduce the learning curve so that it could be an accessable OS. Honestly to all you Linux fanbois if you had started with Linux and never used another OS you would have hated computers and you all know it.
If you want to challenge microsoft you would need to provide an easy to master, all hardware encompassing, gamer friendly system that would have a spreadsheet tool that was better than excel (whose power and functionality is approaching dedicated mathematics programs like mathcad/matlab [honestly, this is the best program MS makes anymore and the real reason they dominate industry]) that would ship with the computer. This OS would beat the crap out of all others out there. Give it whatever look you like, any functionality anything, but make it meet those criteria and it will displace windows. Until then, windows is what those of us with jobs in industry and hobbies in gaming are stuck with.
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Apple really has pulled the wool over everybodies eyes for the past 5 years. This company is no different than Microsoft, just better at marketing to teens. Answer me this: Why is a controlled hardware enviroment any better for innovation than a controlled software inviroment? Apple would have put the screws to everybody and have been the same abusing monopoly as microsoft had they had the money. What really sucks is that the third choice is just as bad. Linux is still dominated by snobbishness that has ruled it since its inception. Linux doesn't want to be the computer for "everybody" it wants to be the computer for people that know computers. No attempt has ever been made to make it easy to use or reduce the learning curve so that it could be an accessable OS. Honestly to all you Linux fanbois if you had started with Linux and never used another OS you would have hated computers and you all know it. If you want to challenge microsoft you would need to provide an easy to master, all hardware encompassing, gamer friendly system that would have a spreadsheet tool that was better than excel (whose power and functionality is approaching dedicated mathematics programs like mathcad/matlab [honestly, this is the best program MS makes anymore and the real reason they dominate industry]) that would ship with the computer. This OS would beat the crap out of all others out there. Give it whatever look you like, any functionality anything, but make it meet those criteria and it will displace windows. Until then, windows is what those of us with jobs in industry and hobbies in gaming are stuck with.