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And Apple is concerned just about end-users. End users are not concerned about RMS and his concerns at all.
by rimantas 16y ago
And Apple is concerned just about end-users.
End users are not concerned about RMS and his concerns at all.
- teilo 16y agoNo, Apple is concerned about making money. They make money by making things and convincing end-users to buy them. One way to convince end-users is to make something useful and pretty and then market it in the most effective way possible. They are very good at this, and I do not fault them for it, but I also do not confuse altruism with what is clearly a profit motive.
- einarvollset 16y agoUnlike Google's altruism?
- teilo 16y agoAh, assigning motives to my comment. No, what I said about Apple is just as true of Google. And Microsoft.
- atonse 16y agoSo if Apple is making something useful for users, and users reward Apple for it by buying their products, what's the issue again?
- teilo 16y agoWhat, in anything I said, did you read as critical of Apple or of Apple's users? For the record, I have been a Mac user for the last five years, but do I really need to say that every time I describe Apple's profit motive?
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