Jared - Thanks for putting the issues here so clearly and fairly.
I think the Subaru vs. Toyota analogy is not quite correct here.
People who use Apple products actually receive an unfair penalty (and
in some case, lose opportunities to do good design work) because
Microsoft's enormous power over the market means that they can pretty
much dictate industry standards (examples: Internet Explorer v. 6's
non-standard HTML, the situation where many companies force users to
use Outlook in order to support features of Exchange Server, the fact
that Visio is the app used by so many wireframe teams despite the fact
that there are other tools that are far better at that task, such as
OmniGraffle - and yes, I know the 'pro' version of that app reads and
writes Visio XML, but there's no reading and writing of original
files). The court cases against Microsoft in Europe bear this out.
In short, when Subaru puts out a car, they don't change some streets
so that Toyota cars can't drive on it.
As for whining, I'd hardly say that expressing dismay is a whine,
especially when Microsoft hinted at supporting other platforms with
Expression years ago but has never put anything out except a small
subset of the apps in the suite.
On 11-Jul-09, at 9:26 AM, Joshua Muskovitz wrote:
Thank you Jared.
I do realize that Apple users/fans can feel like a segregated
minority, but blaming Microsoft for their woes is simply misguided.
Being angry at a company for not producing a product "for me" is
just silly.
Personally, I like Subarus. They are quirky, well designed, and have
great personalities. But I don't get angry when Toyota chooses to
focus on products which don't meet my specific needs. I'm not being
denied some sort of entitlement. Whining about it just isn't helpful.
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