While I don't like Microsoft, and they have tried to force people to use their shabby browser, at least they haven't got up to the same sort of restrictive practises that Apple have; consider:
I can wander down the road into any tatty-old computer shop and buy a tatty old PC and get some sort of Windows running on it relatively easily (as I can, even more easily with Linux). Apple have always tied their operating systems to their machines. The 'iPad thing' is really just an extension of the same sort of thing. This may, after all, be one of the reasons why Apple have never commanded more than about 10% of the market. I know that Windows is a second-class product; but it works to a certain extent in areas where Mac OS cannot even bootup the install disk. Unless Apple "democritise" they will probably go the way of all aristocracies; and, just perhaps, it is Apple that should feel threatened by Linux, not Windows. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
