That made me chuckle. I know you weren't serious as you added a smiley face. I wonder how many Mac users though secretly wish there was a takeover and the day when Mac users will rule the world.
That made me chuckle. I know you weren't serious as you added a smiley face. I wonder how many Mac users though secretly wish there was a takeover and the day when Mac users will rule the world.But I guess that is actually the key to understanding Apple phobia - secretly you all realize that Steve Jobs is creating a juggernaut which will swallow up the PC industry and leave you no choice but to submit. ;)
Well, for sure the liberal ones wish that the liberal ones did! They're sure not hoping that I do!I think we'd all settle for a world where there is room in the computer market for all kinds - high end systems, mid-grade systems, and entry-level systems. A world in which when you buy a computer to surf the web, you don't also have to buy software to try to keep up with legions of hackers circling like vultures over egregious vulnerabilities in the systems. And a world in which computers do what they are sold to do, and the seller doesn't pass the buck when one actually doesn't. And a world in which entrepreneurs continually and dynamically raise the bar on what we can expect from a computer.
As it happens, Apple does most of that - they just don't compete in the low end of the market. Maybe Windows 7 will do all of that and fill in the low end of the spectrum as well. Time will show.
Not this one. What I would like to see -- and I see as increasingly the case -- is a world in which there is no dominant player in the operating system arena. Apple can compete quite well in that environment. That's why I'm a fan of Linux; anything that erodes Microsoft's hegemony is good for everyone else.