On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 07:34:44PM -0800, Bob Miller wrote: > The thing is, the PC ecosystem is broad, deep and complex. There are > five vendors competing for every niche in it, from CPU to video card > to case to the little screws that hold the PCI cards in. The Mac > "ecosystem" is single source from top to bottom, exactly three > products at any time, cleverly positioned so that only the top product > has all the useful features. When Apple screws up -- ships a > faulty/unreliable product, can't meet demand, or misses a development > schedule, Mac users have no alternative. PC users just buy another > brand. > > One is rain forest, the other is parking lot. > > The other thing is, the Mac has a closed, proprietary software > architecture. Just like Windows. More so, in fact, since Apple owns > it from the apps to the chips. The PC, especially with Linux or *BSD, > is infinitely diverse. You always have choices, including the choice > to rewrite it your way. (That's why we're FOSS zealots, after all.)
Not exactly part of the Mac ecosystem, but there is http://pegasosppc.com -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
