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@Author: YES, I AGREE APPLE IS BUSSINES


Conclusions:) (:as from NOT Apple loving person:)


1. Apple customers agree to buy broken product more than once.

Apple releases OSX versions in very quick fashion. 10.0 and 10.1 never worked as it should (And the only way to fix them is upgrading to new major release, where software you used is found likely to be incompatible). But Apple still charges for new release (???$). Cycle of upgrade is shorter than one year.


2. Apple customers are still thinking that Apple is open source, I for once agree with the author: APPLE IS BUSSINES

No, it's not. The only things Apple made open sourced are Darwin (should be PC compatible, but supporting only few very old and obscure PC hardware, chances you find compatible machine are close to 0%) and Quicktime Streaming server (which I once even thought to use but as I was reading license I stoped at 1/4 where license become even more ****ed up than M$ EULA), and few parts of contributions to KHTML, which I still think were the parts that they felt that they will make their life easier with using base KHTML in future

They haven't opensourced Aqua, Quicktime (sorensen) or any patented technology (nor should they, at least I compliment them for that, that fact really makes me happy).

Sooo, is Apple even a little OSS-friendly? Hell, no. Not even a bit more than in times of OS9.


3. I felt let down. Rejected by a company that I had adored, admired, respected

Apple users probably think that Apple cares about them. Face it, author said it,...

That story made me laugh. Thanks:)

I don't know what author expected going into company. Cake and cookies maybe, along with a nice chat with mr. Jobs???


4. iCheap?:)

Yeah, and what it will run? Probably not OS9 (This one is now OS DEAD). OSX is still dog slow on machines with specified characteristics. That would make very bad publicity for Apple, there's a little life fact that says that people mostly buy cheapest. Even the most selling Apple brand is always the cheapest of the line (do not confuse iBook and Powerbook or iMac and Gx, they are completely different product)

But then again, wait year or two when current G5 is outdated (and including the fact that it would be decent to run OSX version being current in that time). iCheap would be possible.

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This is just a little rant from a ex-longtime Mac customer, who is now happy (or Macless) and very amused with such logic as it was shown here

btw. Apple made more patent and other legal confusion than any other company (M$ included).