"Windows' enterprise adoption declined in 2007, with the gains going to Linux and Mac OS. Vista is a bust. Forrester published the data on Thursday, but only released it publicly today. Forrester surveyed a whopping 50,000 users at 2,300-plus large to very large enterprises throughout 2007. Windows' enterprise adoption declined 3.7 percent, going from 98.6 percent in January to 94.9 percent in December. Mac OS gained 3 percent, going from 1.2 percent to 4.2 percent in the same time frame. Linux gained 0.5 percent in 2007." A classic case of 'do with it as you please'.
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Member since:2005-07-30
Have you been sleeping under a rock?
Just look at Apple's general attitude. Locking down iPod's firmware just so tech enthusiasts can't get their own firmware running. Look at their attitude towards licensing "fairplay". Damn, look at any of their policies, Apple is all about lock-in, hurting tech enthusiasts and maintaining control.
Member since:2006-12-16
Wintermute summed up the answer so nicely. Apple is not a nice company. As an ex Apple Australia employee, my memories of them are not fond, both as a company, and as a purveyor of products. The phrases "rotten to the core" or "bad apple" spring to mind.
Apple sues anyone who looks at them sideways, hell, I'm sure Steve Jobs would sue a Fly on a wall in the dunny for supposed trade secret infringements!
Apple is a huge supporter of DRM, has used and abused open source in the past (KHTML), it's a nasty company that despite some nice products, deserves to go bankrupt for being so anti competitive and nasty.
As an end user, I have non fond memories of Apple's supposed warranty on the 2nd gen iPod mini battery issues - basically being forced to agree to their TOC - i.e. if they can't fault it they'll charge me over AU $100 for testing it! If you don't agree to those TOC, they won't service it. Nice eh? I didn't bother fighting this in court, but I should have, and there's no way Apple Australia would have won. The other issue was postal costs, Apple wanted to charge over AU $22 for that privilege, where I could have sent the damn item back registered post with a signature required and insurace for half that cost. In Australia, that is illegal under the Trade Practices Act 1974. Apple Australia had a tonne of complaints against it with the ACCC for the exact same thing, and the ACCC was not impressed with them for making life difficult. Typical Apple.
A company deserves to be in business based on how it treats it customers, on that aspect, Apple should be bankrupt imho.
Dave
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Member since:2005-07-07
What evidence do you have to back up such baseless accusations?
They don't need any evidence. After all, hating Apple is what all the cool kids do these days. Apple is an evil company that rips off open source projects while never contributing anything back. Let's ignore Webkit, Darwin, GCC patches, etc. Apple is an evil company that sells DRMed music. Apple is evil because Fairplay doesn't work on other music players despite the possibility of licensing it.
Apple is just a commercial entity like any other. They just rub geeks the wrong way, but for the majority of people Apple products are much better than the competition.
Member since:2005-08-18
Member since:2005-07-06
Yeah, screw WebKit! Screw CUPS! Screw all the effort Apple put in to improve GCC instead of licensing proprietary, better performing compilers from IBM and Intel! Screw BASH's improved POSIX compliance! Linux doesn't benefit at all from these projects, because nobody uses Linux on PPC hardware or wants to print from within Linux or access artist info from Wikipedia inside Amarok 2.0! And POSIX is just for wussies!
Screw also the Darwin Calendar Server! Screw Bonjour! And screw all other projects from macosforge.org. It's all evil crap under the very very nasty Apache License!
(PS: If you find pieces of irony in my post, you can keep it.)
Member since:2006-03-05
Member since:2006-06-03
The mark of a good april-fool's joke is that people are taken in by them.
http://home.cs.tum.edu/~siegel/news/2008_04_02-about_that_april_foo...
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2005-07-06
I'm with you on that. Apple would be a far worse master than MS. Apple behaves like a monopolist, locks out competition, and does dirty trick when they don't even have a 10% market share. Just imagine how bad it would be if they were a monopoly. "
What evidence do you have to back up such baseless accusations?