me:
>> Apple products more expensive and harder for the user
>> to fix without "genius" help than, say, PCs?)
Dan:
> My software engineer friends admit to me they love PCs because they are
> arcane, fail frequently, are easily corrupted by high school hackers and they
> keep them getting fat pay checks.
>
> Fortunately the PC world is going the way of the pet rock.
Of course, a Mac is nothing but a type of PC, so they must be going
the way of the pet rock, too. (To be replaced by Android phones and
tablet computers? who knows?) For most corporations, the Mac is a type
of PC that's less attractive than (because it's more expensive than)
what used to be called an "IBM-compatible PC." Macs have always been
more consumer-oriented than corporation-oriented, too. This has meant
that hackers have not been as attracted to Macs as much as to
IBM-compatibles. If Macs become more popular, especially with
corporations, hackers will attack them more.
Apple has a reputation for not even trying to make their PCs
compatible with old ("legacy") programs, while at least Microsoft
makes an attempt. (Of course, Microsoft gets itself into trouble now
and then when it tries to imitate Macs, as with Windows 8.) I'm told
that you can't change the parts in the innards of a Mac (unlike with
an IBM-compatible). Maybe that's a good thing since amateur fiddling
can be a disaster, but it fits with Apple's monopolistic attitude
toward everything. They're in charge, they know it, and their ads make
it sound like they invented the Beatles and personal photography.
In any event, my point has always been that I see no reason why anyone
on what might has sometimes been called the "left" would favor one
corporation versus another or worship one cyber-baron over another.
All of those barons act very much like banksters, for example, setting
up shell corporations in Ireland to avoid taxes.
If we must choose sides, why not Mozilla? or Linux? GNU?
--
Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your
own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
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