Chris Reeves wrote: :: Right now is the perfect time in the grand scheme of things to do :: it. Apple will stick to their hardware plan. Good for them. And :: they can keep their 6% of the market, while Microsoft sticks with :: their 80%+. And people will piss and moan about what a monopoly MS :: has and how it's so bad, etc. etc. and how MS controls developers :: and software releases, etc. etc. etc. But remember this: MS has no :: competition in the marketspace not because it's impossible to :: compete with them, but because Apple, which has the means to, elects :: not to compete. :: :: And that, IMHO, is stupid.
Er, it may be stupid....but tiny apple apparently doesn't want to rouse the not-so-sleepy giant. MS has a lot of muscle it could flex against apple if they moved directly. I think they are forced into a "coy" posture. Yeah, they can be happy with their 6% or consider getting crushed out of existance.
Point: this has to happen very very slowly.
