On 6/1/2010 1:49 PM, William Robb wrote:
On 01/06/2010 11:24 AM, steve harley wrote:
On 2010-06-01 08:46 , P. J. Alling wrote:
Google is a competitor with Microsoft, they both want the same thing,
TWD, total world domination, Now Linux and Apple may want the same
thing
but for a number of reasons that's unlikely with either. Why give
sustenance to your enemy?
uh, Google and Apple are the more obvious sparring partners at this
point
It is possible to have more than one competitor at a time.
My issue with Apple is simple, to a non iProduct user all the iProducts
except the Mac look like varioations on the same thing.
iPod, tune player that has enough software to work as a game player and PDA
iPhone iPod with Phone capability.
iPad Overgrown iPod with possible phone capability in the future.
Mac, good reliable yet overpriced computer using an OS substantially
incompatible with the OS on 80-90% of the rest of the personal computers
in the world.
My issue with Linux, is it's a loose consortium of Geeks both profit and
decidedly non profit, who have two things in common, a general disdain,
for Microsoft and all it's works, and an inveterate urge to tinker, it's
product may be reliable, but it will also tend to be geeks have blind
spots, (I know I do), usually leading to problems along the line of,
what do you mean it's hard to do that, it's easy, just follow these
simple steps and then...
Much as I'd like to see Linux take off, it doesn't give me confidence,
and Apple has been playing on MS's turf all along without making major
inroads into their core business.
If Microsoft gets it's act back together, easier said than done, it may
make Google more than a bit uncomfortable. In the past MS hasn't been
above dirty tricks to maintain it's market share and probably wouldn't
be above such activities in gaining market share either. But MS has the
power of inertia behind it. Apple doesn't.
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