Harry said:
(Prevalence of malware on Windows] also has to do with the
unreasonable hatred of MS and Windows IMO. Odd, since Stevie Joeboy
is the real megalomaniac, not Willie Wallholes. Apple gets away with
anti-competitive practices that make other companies drool with
envy.
cheers,
wolf k.
One must remember....Apple started as a COMPUTER company....get it?
Hardware! Why would someone making their profits on hardware want
something else to run on it other than software meant for that
hardware.
Apple has become a systems-maker, and of course it doesn't like people
messing with its system. And of course it wants to sell as much
software as possible, at very high prices.
Thing is, I can't "legally" install OS-X on anything other than an
Apple-branded machine. Google "hackintosh" to find out how Apple tries
to stop people from installing OS-X on their own hardware. (This is
IMO shooting yourself in the marketing foot: if you want people to
like Apple, you should make every effort to make it easy for them to
have the Apple experience.) They also control the "apps" on the
iPhone. Etc.
There are other software developers, right? What about M$
attempting to make their software proprietary to their OS?
Win7 will run on all current PC motherboards, and most older ones. MS
wants you to buy their OS, and makes it easy to install on any
hardware. Even on an Intel Mac, actually, if you know how to
re-partition the disk. Which a PC user probably does, since PC mags
are good at helping people do that kind of thing.
And yes, MS tried to "integrate" their apps into the OS. Windows users
were not amused. Mac users take what Apple gives them, and kiss the
hem of SJ's garment in gratitude.
Where MS and Apple differ IMO is that MS has realised that OS and
software matters more than hardware. That's why MS is teaming with web
service providers, and is trying to position itself as the "cloud"
operator. To do this well, their OSs must be able to run any hardware,
and that's what they are aiming to do. (The same realisation has led
Google to produce its own browser and OS.)
Apple is still hung up on integrated systems, but IMO that's an
obsolescent concept. They tend to be a generation behind, anyhow: the
iPad is by no means the first tablet computer, and is about to be
eclipsed by the next generation of Blackberry. Macs _look_ cool, but
are overpriced for what they do. Their strength (and it's a formidable
one) is that Apple tunes and tweaks the system until it "just works."
And as I've pointed out before, I did buy a Powerbook, and still have
it. I could have had an equally capable Windows laptop for half the
price or less.
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