> > *It's been like this for 20 years. It apparently hasn't slowed them down > too much. J*
It hasnt done much for their market share either. They seem to be content with near total control of the entire hardware/software thing - and thats fine. I am gald no one puts a gun to my head and forces me to buy one. I love my iPhone but I refuse to get a Mac just to develop software for their App Store. So, they lose - in my eyes. I am probably one of a lot of folks who wont purchase an overpriced Apple PC, because they refuse to allow clones, when I can get 2 to 3 of the same spec'd hardware and run Windows on it. When the day comes that Apple realizes that with all the outsourcing our jobs to cheaper labor elsewhere in the world and the horrible economy for those who still do have a job - and folks just dont have the money to buy high priced items anymore - they might create a VM that can be loaded on a Wondows machine and they gain access to millions of developers who would otherwise ignore them - as I am and will. They may be "doing well" but in my book, its horrible business. Get your product into the hands of as many as possible and stop acting as if its some elite thing, like something overpriced that you bought at Sharper Image. Is it no wonder they failed? Watch Apples stock in the next coming months. I wouldnt get into that stock until its comes back to earth, probably in the 20s-30s per share. Apple is cool but they're going to see some very rough times coming very soon. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
