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Think different my ass

vruz:

Apple does indeed suck, just like any big corporation does.
Whilst they do have some good products, many really aren’t. Unconditional love for a corporation really blows my mind.
To cite the most evident case, I maintain that the Mac OS X user interface has been surpassed years ago by other substitutes, to give just an example the Finder really sucks big time, I’m not even getting technical.
However, the notion of ALL using the same system is a dangerous one, because that’s roughly what happened with Microsoft Windows, what started good with Windows 95 ended up very badly. Big corporations just aren’t trustworthy, once they achieve a dominating position, they don’t need to satisfy the customer’s needs anymore… I believe that Apple and Google are no different.

We don’t have to ALL use the same computer system, that would stiffle progress too, in a rather soviet manner.
That’s the reason why we have standards, and major vendors commit to standards, to agree on a level playing field everybody can build upon and differentiate on bleeding edge features, or service, or quality, or something else.

But no, Apple don’t want standards, they still want a little unfair advantage to hold the market back.

Think different my ass.

Originally posted as a comment by vruz on united colours of vruz using Disqus.

amen to all of this