See online reply. Sent from my iPhone On 7 Mar 2009, at 02:08, Fernando Cassia <fcassia@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 7:37 PM, John Holmblad> <jholmblad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:>>>> I for one would like to see Apple acquire Nokia. That would be a >> great>> combination.>> A couple points:>> 1. Apple makes proprietary, closed solutions. Try to reverse engineer> Apple´s firmware for compatibility reasons and you´ll see Apple> lawyers coming to get you. You don't need to. This is the point. There are only two types of people that need to do tho : 1) people who don't want Apple hardware but want Apple Software, 2) iPhone users Who cant live in the sade world Apple created.>>> 2. Apple makes expensive, not cheap, hardware. This is a misconception Apple makes expensive hardware that is well specified. Apple does not cater to PC builder types. >>> 3. Apple does not support Free Software in general> (if you know any Apple software released under the GNU GPL Free> Software license, let me know)> that puts it at odds with the N8xx tablets Linux OS foundation. Free software does not require GPL. >> 4. Apple continues pretending Linux doesn´t exist (Quicktime for Lin > ux, anyone). Lots of companies ignore Linux. It's not an Apple exclusive. >>> 5. Apple charges an arm and a leg for software upgrades No, no it doesn't. Apple charges for major releases. But point releases (eg. Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10) are free. 10.4 to 10.5 was a major release. Microsoft charges way more for the same type of upgrade. >>> 6. Apple doesn´t like people tinkering with its OS. There's not a lot you need to tinker with. It just works. >>> 7. Apple is just a Microsoft with a sense of style.> There´s plenty of "not invented here syndrome", like Microsoft does> with WMV, Apple does with Quicktime. Why not embrace OpenOffice.org?> Not invented at Apple, so it must suck, right?. Because Apple have iWork, which is pretty much better that OpenOffice for most users.>>> So please don´t. I wouldn´t buy any device from Apple corp. Apple Corp is the Beatles record label, isn't it? Each to their own. >> FC>>> not do acquisitions and they have never been good at it.>>>>>> Best Regards,>>>>_______________________________________________maemo-users mailing listmaemo-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
