On 2/12/2015 1:40 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote:
I can bitch and gripe all I want about Apple's policies and how their products are designed to benefit *them* with consumer lock-in, etc etc blah blah. Nobody's listening.
Don't be so hard on yourself: there are people listening, but those whom are not probably already realized that Apple is in the business of selling more Apple products, not making the FOSS movement stronger.
It's obvious to anyone who sees Apple's hardware that the company wants to prevent any cut-rate competitors' from undercutting their prices: proprietary connectors everywhere you look, even if the protocols are as common as SCSI (Thunderbolt) or VGA, and ever-more imaginative ways to put components inside boxes with new shapes that nobody else can produce. I once won $10 by proving to my coworker that an Apple computer had an IDE drive in it; and I made the bet because I knew that not even Apple could afford to pass up the benefits of commodity disk drives, no matter how much effort their designers put into hiding the drive in a special bracket secured with Torx screws to frighten the average user.
They make money at it, and so they're not likely to change, which is a shame, because they're going to get stuck in the "what next" part of the curve. Having invented so many new ways of doing things, Apple will become the victim of its success: there are only so many ways to re-imagine the music industry or computers in general, and Jobs isn't around to pull more rabbits out of his hat.
FWIW. Bill P.S. I'll move my reply to your VM advice into the VM thread. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
