The best results would be a new batch of iPhone alternatives. Windows 8 has a very different look and the early reviews I have read are pretty positive. I have no issues with Apple (as I type on a Mac) but I don't like to see any company go unchallenged.
On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Daniel J. Matyola <[email protected]> wrote: > My first computer was an Apple ][. Great computer. I loved it. I > learned Basic, Pascal, Assembler and even a bit of machine language > programing on it. It certainly wasn't "plug -and-play," but it was > designed for computer hobbyists, and most of them loved it. > > Dan Matyola > http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola > > > On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 6:19 PM, Bob Sullivan <[email protected]> wrote: >> Darren, >> Some of us still hold a grudge on Apple. >> We remember our first Apple PC's >> and how everything Apple cost 2X what the IBM machines cost, >> how nothing - printer, disc drives, monitors, memory had to be Apple >> or it wouldn't work! >> Regards, Bob S. >> >> On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Darren Addy <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 11:11 AM, John Sessoms <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>>> From: steve harley >>> >>>>> years of appeals will probably ensue, but the stifling effect will start >>>>> now >>>> >>>> >>>> Pretty much the way I read it. >>> >>> The stifling of patented Intellectual Property theft? I believe that >>> is the purpose of the laws that are on the books (to prevent or at >>> least disincentivize that). I'm sure that most of you know that >>> patents exist to reward innovators and stimulate innovation, for the >>> good of society. To allow Intellectual Property larceny would stifle >>> that innovation (and from that we all would suffer). >>> >>> Some of you act like this is the first patent lawsuit judgement you >>> have ever heard of. >>> >>> Presumably most of you are in favor of Pentax being granted patents on >>> their innovations and would have an opinion if some other company >>> "lifted them" to Pentax's detriment. Frankly, it seems like some of >>> you hear the word "Apple" and your heads disappear up your arses. >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> [email protected] >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Steve Desjardins -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
