On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 10:05:33PM -0500, Drmgiver wrote:
> "Instead of devloping they just have to muscle control and take over
> making somethng they had nothing to do with their own. Scary."
> It's what they have always done (i.e. Macintosh), why change now?
>
Do you mean the way MS took the market share from Mac in the 90's? I
don't think they were using muscle tactics back then. Apple lost it all
by themselves, by being overly arrogant. (They may lose what they have
now in the same way--I see that in CA, there are issues about them
working with AT&T to try to lock people in with the iPhone, as well as
deliberately releasing code to brick unlocked phones.)
MS gave the people what they wanted, including pre-emptive multi
tasking, which Apple didn't have until OS X. Apple made bad business
decisions, and basically gave it away.
It was part of what gave MS its present power.
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