Really I mean what Mac brought to the table as far as technologies go,
Windows stole outright and than of course tried to claim it for themselves.
Justin
Scott wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> --
> Scott Robbins
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>
> Cordelia: Hi! You having fun?
> Angel: Sure. This is, uh...
> Cordelia: Your idea of hell.
> Angel: Actually, in hell you tend to know a lot of the people
>
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