Linked by Jack Perry on Thu 3rd Jun 2004 17:55 UTC
It's all Waterloo-Maple's fault, really: if they had maintained a version of their computer algebra system for the Amiga, I wouldn't have found it necessary to switch to Mac. Or maybe it's Commodore's fault for mismanaging themselves into oblivion; I don't know. Either way, I became painfully aware three years ago that my little Amiga would no longer satisfy my computing needs. I needed a new home computer.
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Apple isn't a monopoly.
Hardware side is an IBM PowerPC Open Platform machine with Open Firmware in ROM. Also, today the PowerPC is the only open processor architecture.
Software side is an Mach 3.0 open microkernel with a 4.4BSD-Lite layer that comes from FreeBSD with elements of OpenBSD and NetBSD. Cocoa is based upon OpenStep. Safari is based upon KHTML (webcore of KDE). Quicktime technology is open.
And if you think that Macs have programmed obsolescence you don't know that MacUsers change your machines less than common PC Windows/Linux users.