"Bad Apple: Five Classic Apple Marketing Tactics That Lock You In"
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Nor is Apple the only vendor to use one product as leverage to push others onto consumers (let's declare Microsoft the champion there).
That's the buried lead, right there. :') Other than that, this screed is a quintessental Apple-bashing article.
I had to install an unused printer (it had been used, just wasn't being used) when another one died in a high demand spot (at work), and a software update popped up, from Microsoft, something like "Malicious Software Detector" was the title, oh, I stupidly went ahead with that, and it installed IE8.
Then, when I launched it to search for the driver, as I'd done when the printer had to go on a different machine last year, the Google search box wouldn't operate, Aiiie, it was like it wasn't even there. Wouldn't let me click on it.
The livesearch box of course used Bing (surprise surprise) and I found the driver I needed. But it is obviously no accident that the Google search was disabled by IE8.
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11/05/2009 3:10:23 PM PST by
SunkenCiv
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Read the article. Apparently this guy makes a lot of his reputation throwing bombs at Apple. The purpose of the article, as far as I can tell, is that it appears to be a hit job to try and pump up the Android phone.