[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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