It's beyond "a little much." MS uses its huge marketshare and huge amount of cash (RE: its monopolistic powers) to kill off competition. For example, there was a small time company that made what is now called FrontPage. MS bought the product, ate the company, killed off its employees, and now sells frontpage. They've done this to other small businesses too. They go beyond what most corporations do; Atleast beyond what most ethical companies would do.
Well, I chose "I'm tired of the terrible software that Microsoft continues to release." Even though, my first computer was a Mac, I switched to Windows and then back to Mac, after realizing how horrible Windows is.
laptops and imacs make a statement that i'm not a mind numb robot
MS needs the competition, MS needs toa get much better.
if MS was rice, people would be scared to death of a blight that would leave billions starving, needs more diversity, look a china, korea and japan looking to another OS to avoid many issues
MS big is not better
the customer should matter some times, don't you think
POWER CORRUPTS AND ABSOLUTE POWER CORRUPTS ABSOLUTELY, and it has perverted what computers could be,
Finally got fed up with all the memory leaks and system lock-ups to the point where I was rebooting the machine about 4 times daily. With PC's, the longer you have them, the buggier they get, and thus far my Mac has proven to be the opposite case.
partially, I really dislike Microsoft (I'm happy they are getting lawsuits constantly, does that make me a bad person?) I like the cool crisp look of the mac, how they are always ahead of the game when it comes to usability, and looks especially. I can imagine myself with the powerbook now... with the glowing apple symbol *sigh* drooled over them again today at the store
got an iPod first, then with all the virii going around on Windows and whatnot, I said screw it...
This is really interesting to me, as I was wondering about the decision Apple made to give the iPod Windows compatibility. At first glance you'd think they would have kept it Mac-only and used it as the drool-worthy incentive to switch to Mac. "You want the coolest MP3 player in the world? Get a Mac." Instead they went the Trojan-horse route and figured if Windows people bought iPods they'd fall under the spell of the whole Apple aesthetic. (Plus, of course, you get to sell a whole lot more iPods.) If I'd had to guess, I'd have gone the first route, based on the assumption that to get people to switch, you have to give them something they simply CANNOT do on their current platform. Hmmm...
I switched in 2000 after spending 2 years working on Macs at school and discovering that they were MUCH easier to use than PCs. The only edge that a PC has over my Mac is that there are more games available for a PC ... but that's what my game platforms (PSOne, Dreamcast, and XBox) are for.
after making the switch, I have to say, it is bad, and I wanna a pc box.
Then don't hang around here complaining. Macs retain the best resell value of any computer I've seen. Sell your Mac on eBay and you should have plenty left to buy or build a comparable PC.
Then don't hang around here complaining. Macs retain the best resell value of any computer I've seen. Sell your Mac on eBay and you should have plenty left to buy or build a comparable PC.
well, I don't mean to annoy anyone here, just what I am thinking after the switch, mac is not all good, it has flaw, and everybody here is responsible to make other know what the situation is on a mac, and people won't waste their money, or make the wrong switch.
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17" PB is on it's way!!!
Originally posted by thuh Freak
It's beyond "a little much." MS uses its huge marketshare and huge amount of cash (RE: its monopolistic powers) to kill off competition. For example, there was a small time company that made what is now called FrontPage. MS bought the product, ate the company, killed off its employees, and now sells frontpage. They've done this to other small businesses too. They go beyond what most corporations do; Atleast beyond what most ethical companies would do.
Here you go:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...ics_money_dc_1
That should give you a warm fuzzy. All that money is from ethical corporations that just think Bush is doing a great job.
Originally posted by Jukebox Hero
Sony did the exact same thing.
No, they didn't. Sony got screwed by Nintendo way back and basically said "F#&% you guys then. We'll make our own console."
Originally posted by Brad
If not for Mac OS X, I would have definitely jumped ship, as would many other users, I believe.
Nope.
poor interface with all the usual software
security, security, secutity
os10 is sooo coool
laptops and imacs make a statement that i'm not a mind numb robot
MS needs the competition, MS needs toa get much better.
if MS was rice, people would be scared to death of a blight that would leave billions starving, needs more diversity, look a china, korea and japan looking to another OS to avoid many issues
MS big is not better
the customer should matter some times, don't you think
POWER CORRUPTS AND ABSOLUTE POWER CORRUPTS ABSOLUTELY, and it has perverted what computers could be,
MS is an obstacle to advancing anything
Originally posted by Preppy
got an iPod first, then with all the virii going around on Windows and whatnot, I said screw it...
This is really interesting to me, as I was wondering about the decision Apple made to give the iPod Windows compatibility. At first glance you'd think they would have kept it Mac-only and used it as the drool-worthy incentive to switch to Mac. "You want the coolest MP3 player in the world? Get a Mac." Instead they went the Trojan-horse route and figured if Windows people bought iPods they'd fall under the spell of the whole Apple aesthetic. (Plus, of course, you get to sell a whole lot more iPods.) If I'd had to guess, I'd have gone the first route, based on the assumption that to get people to switch, you have to give them something they simply CANNOT do on their current platform. Hmmm...
Originally posted by seen_xu
after making the switch, I have to say, it is bad, and I wanna a pc box.
Then don't hang around here complaining. Macs retain the best resell value of any computer I've seen. Sell your Mac on eBay and you should have plenty left to buy or build a comparable PC.
Originally posted by Brad
Then don't hang around here complaining. Macs retain the best resell value of any computer I've seen. Sell your Mac on eBay and you should have plenty left to buy or build a comparable PC.
well, I don't mean to annoy anyone here, just what I am thinking after the switch, mac is not all good, it has flaw, and everybody here is responsible to make other know what the situation is on a mac, and people won't waste their money, or make the wrong switch.
is that right?
peace.
? Mac OS X is easier to use
? I just like Macs, my first computer was one (but then we moved to Winedows)