It's possible you're right. But, I think this was the only way for them to get a certain, very large, group of people to even consider the Apple operating system. (There's essentially no Apple hardware anymore as we knew it.)
The MacBook is the first Apple product I've considered purchasing in a very long time. That's mainly because it's a decent Windows laptop for the price. My first real PC was a Macintosh Plus. I've owned several Macs since then and was a true fan. But, you can only take so many arbitrary decisions from a company before you throw in the towel. Apple killed very many good products -- the most egregious murder being HyperCard. Oh, how much did you want to love it, hearing how the licensing requirement was that it be distributed free with every Macintosh forever! Oh, but they weaseled out of that somehow, didn't they? It took Apple forever to move to commodity hardware. Oh, how many hundreds of dollars did I spend on special monitors and special hard disks and special keyboards and special mice. And what a lovely drawer full of ADB cables and whatnot I have to show for it. Apple employs business practices that, if used by Microsoft, would have people crying "foul" and bringing anti-trust suits. Buying music from iTunes means you're locked into iTunes and iPods forever. (If I buy a track from a WMADRM vendor I have hundreds of devices to choose from.) So nice of Apple to share the iTunes success by licensing the protocol with its loyal developers. (Oh wait, they didn't!) Apple is far behind in a number of technologies. Tablet/handwriting. Voice. A few others mentioned in this thread. Their applications are not terribly exciting, either. ClarisWorks/AppleWorks was a fantastic program in its day; it basically destroyed Microsoft Works. Then they stopped doing anything with it and now it's "end of life" with no adequate replacement. My much-beloved FileMaker languished, neglected for at least 6 years before they dusted it off and started making some real improvements to it the last two years. Poor Mac developers, indeed. They've suffered an abusive relationship for years with Apple. Now, you wonder why the existence of Boot Camp is the only reason why I'll consider an Apple again. Richard Gaskin wrote... > "Welcome to Macintosh. Thank you for your two decades of sacrifice. > Now please excuse us as we make it easy for non-Mac developers to > walk in and destroy your business without lifting a finger..." _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution