lakestevensdental wrote: > Fernando Cassia wrote: >> 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. >> > They've found there's a broad end-user market for stuff that meets a > certain ease of use and reliability standards. Go figure. >> 2. Apple makes expensive, not cheap, hardware. >> > See above. >> 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. >> > See above. Also, at least for the Ipod and Iphones, lots of > applications are inexpensive, many less than $10 -- a couple Starbucks. > The market appears to find low cost functional software beneficial. > Lots of folks are willing to pay a little for software developers to > fill their market with a wide variety of software. Go figure. >> 4. Apple continues pretending Linux doesn´t exist (Quicktime for Linux, anyone). >> > And MS doesn't provide DirectX 10 for Linux either so more games and > graphics apps would be Linux compatible. Big surprise there. It's as > if the proprietary world has figured out the Linux world isn't organized > enough to cooperate together to develop an open source version for these > important niches. >> 5. Apple charges an arm and a leg for software upgrades >> > See above. >> 6. Apple doesn´t like people tinkering with its OS. >> > See above >> 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?. >> > See above. >> I wouldn´t buy any device from Apple corp. FC >> > > Good luck carrying that non-Apple albatross around your neck... It's > not like there's nothing to learn from the successful. > heh, one thing one can learn for sure, is that playing on peoples vanity provides a whole lot of free publicity... _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
