MacDailyNews Take: Well, good morning, Rip!
Mr. Van Winkle continues, “So, what does Apple look like these days? Apple is not as much about the Mac anymore (in case anyone didn’t notice). And it’s not just about a successful gadget sideshow, i.e., the iPod. It’s about the iPod, iPhone, and iPad.”
“So, what do you do if you’re a PC maker whose business is still all about the Windows-Intel PC?” Crothers asks, “You slavishly imitate as fast as you can.”
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@ bizlaw,
“And when was the last time you saw HP software that worked well?”
HP made one hell of a programable calculator back in the day. The OS was perfect, for what it did.
Back in the day, before Woz quit and helped to start Apple.
Back in the day, in the mid 70s.
Cnet the best in FUD journalism, and biased reporting. If you don’t care about facts, Cnet frigtards are the place to go for internet BS.
Sorry guys, gotta do it again…
Is there anyone in this industry with a brain? Drag the shovel to the stable for another installment, deadlines a loomin’…
How about innovating instead of copying? What a novel idea! Frankly, Apples products are so appealing not because they’re so good, but in comparison to the other sludge on the market they look great. It’s all relative to the alternatives. Stop making knock-offs and create something useful, creative, and great for a change. The problem is, upper management in all these tech companies are idiots and are only worried about producing something quick and cheap. They don’t understand the business they’re in and fail because of it. Jobs is an idiot too, but at least he understands the industry! Sadly others in the field would rather flush the toilet a few times to come up with their next excuse for innovation…
Seriously folks, there’s nothing special about Apple and it’s products, on the other hand, Apples so called competition is very special. So much so that they belong in the special olympics. (no offense to the handicapped!)
@ disposableidentity
“Okay R&D dudes, quickly make me a completely new OS, so we’re not dependent on Microsoft anymore.”
Yeah, like take open source UNIX, slap a paint job on top of it and call it OSX… Then take total credit for it. UNIX has been around over 40 years, but Apple only took a second to grab it and call it their own. My calendar says it’s 2010 how about a real modern OS, not something that was around during the Vietnam era…
@ iAppleTennisU
“American USA = Apple Inc. makes their own:”
…in communist China!
“I believe IBM developed their own OS (IBM OS/2 Warp 4 and OS/2 Warp Server) for their own hardware. But of course a failure.”
OS/2 was a joint creation by Microsoft and IBM, IBM set up how they would like the OS/2 API and GUI to be built, Microsoft Coded and developed the Software for IBM using mist if not all Microsoft’s Patents.
Also IBM had no means of writing code for OS/2 and due to Microsoft being a partner hired Microsoft to write the Software and Code.
In late 1989, IBM and Microsoft released OS/2 version 1.2.
Link: http://pages.prodigy.net/michaln/history/os211/index.html
Now you know the Rest of the Story.
Another option for these PC vendors would be to turn to an Open Source Distro and Develop their own OS from there or buy either Read Hat, Novell SuSe or Solaris… Darwin is after all BSD based. It would still take a couple of years but it does not have to be started from scratch. Novell might have the pieces to do this as they are the ones that develop the original compiz modules for the new GUI animations in Linux a couple of years back… As long as We all depend less on Windows, it would be great for everyone, including Apple