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Weblog:   When is Apple going to open up?
Subject:   How many ways have you gone wrong?
Date:   2005-10-03 18:16:48
From:   AnjanBagchee


I started counting the ways you have gone wrong in your presumed assessment and then I got confused because I can't any logic whatsoever in your contentions. So, instead of answering each point which might take hours, I divide your mistakes into two buckets -


  1. You are assuming that Microsoft is doing something right because it has a larger market share? That's a hilarious proposition. So, now that's what Porsche is doing wrong!! They should communicate better and come out with a compact four door economy sedan. Microsoft is a company of Lowest Common Denominator and it'd be asinine to follow in their footsteps.

  2. Microsoft can afford to be "open" about their moves because they are the plagiarizer, never the plagiarizee. Starting from MS-DOS to their upcoming Longhorn, or whatever they call it now, is stolen concepts from other companies. Apple's hardware is copied by Dell, and software by Microsoft (as observed by Jobs at the Paris Expo this year). There is ABSOLUTELY no reason for Apple to make their products a community decision. Last time I checked they are not an open source company.

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  • Giles Turnbull photo How many ways have you gone wrong?
    2005-10-04 00:57:06  Giles Turnbull | O'Reilly AuthorO'Reilly Blogger [View]

    Microsoft is a company of Lowest Common Denominator and it'd be asinine to follow in their footsteps.

    I disagree. I'm as much a fan of Apple as most other Mac DevCenter readers, but I'm not prepared to declare MS and everything it produces in those terms. Some of Microsoft's products are genuinely innovative (look at all the positive reviews of OneNote).

    Microsoft can afford to be "open" about their moves because they are the plagiarizer, never the plagiarizee.

    Again, I think this is an unfair generalization.
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    2005-10-03 23:30:44  aristotle [View]

    It’s a bit of a stretch to call it all stolen, though it is correct that MSFT are always just reacting.

    Well, Microsoft Research Labs are breaking some ground. But then, very little of that has so far shown up in actual products, or so it seems anyway.

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