[opendtv] Re: I'm starting to feel sorry for, and worry about, Apple

  • From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 17:57:15 -0500

Here, Craig, this sums it up.

I wrote:

> You are missing the whole dynamic of what happened. IBM designed the
> PC to be an open platform. Hardware and software. Apple did not do
> this with the Mac. That's why the PC, with DOS and then Windows OSs,
> got the lion's share of business sales.

And later, Linux too, to take the place of RISC machines like Suns.

And here are two of your replies:

> That's pure crap!

And

> Apple is no more of a walled garden than Microsoft. What was and still
> is different is that they chose to be vertically integrated and
> control both the hardware AND the software.

Isn't that what I said to begin with? They lost out to business applications 
because they had, and continue to have, the walled garden approach.

Consistency, Craig.

Bert
 
 
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