Apple, the New Microsoft?

VE3OGG writes "Apple, the ultimate source of cool. The marketers of slick. The next 'evil empire'? While it might sound goofy at first, Rolling Stone magazine is running an article that summarizes some very interesting points that detail how Apple could become the next technology bad guy. Among the reasons given: Apple's call to be rid of DRM (while continuing to use it in iTunes); Apple's perceived arrogance when they warned consumers not to upgrade to Vista, while not rushing to fix the problem themselves; and Apple's seemingly unstoppable market dominance in the form of the iPod. The iPhone featured heavily as well, a product that is months from release but steals the press from more competitive products. What do you think, could Apple eventually take the place of Microsoft?"

At least it will look better

[jurt1235]

Someone had to say it

MS will always dominate.

[bluesuns]

MS, as said above, will always dominate the market. Their OS is destined to reign somewhat supremely over the industry. Apple has the market on MP3 plays though, but I doubt they will have an increase in mac users any time soon.

It's about time.

[Creeping_Dread]

I've been hating Apple for months now! I can't understand how everyone else can't despise how ubiquitous the ipod has become. I'm prepared to personally stoke the fires of hatred for Apple.

tell me about it

[User 956]

Focusing just on Apple's pipeline they are going to be in for some hard times ahead. Apple's iPhone is far to restricted to be adopted.

No kidding. While it may have wireless, it has less space than a Nomad. Lame.

Re:Sure, why not?

[Anonymous Coward]

United Fruit!

Re:No, because...

[timster]

Microsoft didn't always suck ...

Back in the day, using Microsoft BASIC on a C-64, I was pretty happy. Since then it's been downhill.

Re:It's about time.

[jotok]

I can't understand how everyone else can't despise how ubiquitous the ipod has become.

Totally. Hating something because it's popular makes perfect sense.

Rolling Stone is an IT news source now?

[parvenu74]

I realize Apple traditionally plays to the musical and artistic types (among others), but where did the long haired, dope smoking, rock and roll types at Rolling Stone get the idea that this was a two-way street on which they could be competent journalists of matters of IT and the tech industry? Apparently the drugs are affecting their grasp of reality more than they realized. What's next: VIBE giving a breakdown of Windows Vista's security and performance issues, or Cat Fanciers magazine explaining why Ruby on Rails will eclipse Java, PHP, Perl, and ASP.NET as the web platform for the next fifty years?

Actually, scratch that last one -- there isn't enough drugs or catnip in the world to come to a conclusion like that...

New name for the new M$

[Anonymous Coward]

Will we have to start calling them APP£E?

Re:Penultimate, eh?

[CommunistHamster]

Windows Vista Penultimate: Just before you finish whatever it is you were doing, it crashes.

Re:does anybody want a peanut?

[zcubed]

No more rhymes and I mean it!

Re:tell me about it

[drinkypoo]

More seriously, unless/until they embrace third-party applications on the iPhone, only the Paris Hiltons (and other stupid spoiled whores) of the world will be using them. That and some PHBs. But they can't replace smartphones that let you run, you know, any software you like. I'm looking forward to the proliferation of cheap linux phones. My ideal phone would be a RAZR with a higher-res display (at least QVGA) running Linux... I could even live without touch.

Re:does anybody want a peanut?

[Palshife]

Anybody want a peanut?

Funny how history repeats

[Lobais]

"Instead of a Dark Lord, you would have a queen, not dark but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Tempestuous as the sea, and stronger than the foundations of the earth! All shall love me and despair!" - Steve Jobs

Re:Sure, why not?

[Fred_A]

Don't you mean commie's ?

Re:DRM

[dangitman]

Now that Jobs and Co. have control of Apple Records we will see what they do with it,

I predict that Steve Jobs will hold a naked press conference in bed with Yoko Ono. He'll then be shot by a gunman, who turns out to have a copy of the Apple Human Interface Guidelines on his person. When taken into custody and questioned, the gunman will just repeat "Your application will have the same modern, elegant appearance as other Mac OS X applications." over and over again.

Following a period of mourning, Yoko Ono will replace Steve Jobs as CEO. New models of Mac will have the form factor of a single red rose in a glass case, and the startup chime will be Yoko reciting her shopping list continuously in nasal Japanese. Thus demonstrating man's inhumanity towards man. Ringo Starr will launch a new solo album.

Apple doesn't have the stink of mediocrity

[slashbart]

No

even if Apple became evil, the allpervading smell of mediocrity in any Microsoft product is competely absent at Apple.

Bye

Bart

P.S. the only exception I can think of is Excel.