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I’m old enough to remember the Microsoft monopoly. 2022 Apple isn’t like that at all. Back in the 90s, telling someone to just buy a Mac, was a joke. No one ha
by jonathankoren 4y ago
I’m old enough to remember the Microsoft monopoly. 2022 Apple isn’t like that at all.
Back in the 90s, telling someone to just buy a Mac, was a joke. No one had macs, besides schools, but even those went away. Apps simply didn’t exist on Mac. Files couldn’t even be transferred between machines because the floppies were formatted differently. To not use a windows PC, was an actual burden.
Now let’s compare to 2022 Apple. You don’t want an iPhone, get an android. They’re literally everywhere phones are sold, and you can even egg them for free with a service contract. So what do you lose if switch to it? FaceTime? Um… okay. What popular apps aren’t on android? I honestly don’t know. Even the built in iOS apps, have equivalents that are often even installed on iPhones. Everything else is the web.
There’s no lock in.
- ThatPlayer 4y agoI'll go with EU's ruling when they ruled that Apple App Store didn't compete with Google's Play Store. They'll explain it better than I can. https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_18_4581 https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_18_...
- scarface74 4y agoFiles were able to be exchanged between Macs and Windows PCs as far back as 1990. The Mac came with an extension to read DOS formatted disk.
- jonathankoren 4y agoTechnically correct, but no one had these things
- scarface74 4y agoThe extension to read PC formatted disks came with System 7.
- jonathankoren 4y agolol. Obviously there’s no monopoly power when the small company has to support the big company, but can’t actually format disks for the big company.
- scarface74 4y agoThat’s still not true. System 7 that came out in 1991 could in fact format FAT disks out of the box.