Apple, the New Microsoft? 703
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from the rolling-stone-obviously-an-authority-on-this dept.
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 (Score:5, Funny)
MS will always dominate. (Score:1, Funny)
It's about time. (Score:1, Funny)
tell me about it (Score:5, Funny)
No kidding. While it may have wireless, it has less space than a Nomad. Lame.
Re:Sure, why not? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:No, because... (Score:3, Funny)
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. (Score:4, Funny)
Totally. Hating something because it's popular makes perfect sense.
Rolling Stone is an IT news source now? (Score:5, Funny)
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$ (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Penultimate, eh? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:does anybody want a peanut? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:tell me about it (Score:3, Funny)
Re:does anybody want a peanut? (Score:4, Funny)
Funny how history repeats (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Sure, why not? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:DRM (Score:3, Funny)
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 (Score:2, Funny)
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.