> I'd amazed by how much people support one of the richest companies in the world get richer off the backs of others. Apple is getting rich by making extremely

> I'd amazed by how much people support one of the richest companies in the world get richer off the backs of others. Apple is getting rich by making extremely good stuff. I support them getting richer because I want them to continue making really good stuff I enjoy using. Because I can't trust any other company in the world to do that hard work. Let me show you something: 2001: http://www.wired.com/gadgets/miscellaneous/news/2001/10/47541 http://www.wired.com/gadgets/miscellaneous/news/2001/10/4754... 2007: http://www.palminfocenter.com/news/9414/palm-treo-755p-review/ http://www.palminfocenter.com/news/9414/palm-treo-755p-revie... One month later: http://ipod.about.com/od/iphoneproductreviews/fr/iphone_review.htm http://ipod.about.com/od/iphoneproductreviews/fr/iphone_revi... Fucking science fiction. Consumer wireless devices were dull, stodgy things until Apple came in and said "fuck you, this sucks" and did it better. Innovation was putting an ugly resistive color screen into the clunky enclosures from six years earlier. Spicy. 2003: http://www.tabletpc2.com/Acer.htm http://www.tabletpc2.com/Acer.htm (Owned one of these) 2010: http://www.anandtech.com/show/2904 http://www.anandtech.com/show/2904 Three months later: http://www.apple.com/ipad/specs/ http://www.apple.com/ipad/specs/ Hey, that looks familiar, where have I seen that before? Oh, right, in science fiction. http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/PADD http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/PADD