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Apple has become the big bully a-hole company that Microsoft used to be (perhaps even worse). Apple always was the little guy and had it's faithful niche market

Apple has become the big bully a-hole company that Microsoft used to be (perhaps even worse). Apple always was the little guy and had it's faithful niche market. It was the "underdog" that everyone rooted (or at least deep down felt a bit felt sorry for). Now it has "sold out" and gone mainstream. It has become a greedy corporate giant and with it's figurehead now out of the picture - it's image has begun to tarnish even faster. I predict that dislike or even hatred toward apple will begin to expand until it equals or surpasses that we see of Microsoft today. It will no longer be "hip" and once this image slips - Apple will plummet. This coupled by other tech companies (including all other smartphone manufacturers) banding together and defeating Apple's garbage patent claims (they own a patent on a perfect rectangle as part of a UI design?) will spell an end of a great run for Apple where innovation boomed, but was overcome by greed -leading to their eventual downfall.

hyperbovine 14y ago
Ahem. This is way over the top. Apple's global desktop market share is 6% to Microsoft's ~90%. Yes yes mobile is the future, but people worldwide still spend way more time using MS products than Apple products, even when you take that into account. There are legitimate reasons to suspect that Apple's most innovative days are behind them. (For instance, my guess is that, barring the Apple TV which the late Steve may or may not have bequeathed them, they have no "next big thing" in the pipe.) But the ones you describe are not among them.
taligent 14y ago
Apple does NOT have a patent on rectangles or rounded corners. And there is no evidence that Apple's image hasn't been tarnished at all in the eyes of the general public. I see no reason that the iPhone 5 and iPad Mini will again be record breaking sellers for Apple this year.
- anthonyb 14y ago
  And yet Apple's legal team suggested that Samsung build smartphones and tablets without rounded corners in order to avoid being sued: http://www.pcworld.com/article/245493/apple_to_samsung_dont_make_thin_or_rectangular_tablets_or_smartphones.html http://www.pcworld.com/article/245493/apple_to_samsung_dont_... Legal brief here - section 2-40 (p 10): http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/807407/Apple_Reply_Expert_declaration.pdf http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/807407/Apple_Reply_Expert_...

hyperbovine 14y ago

Ahem. This is way over the top. Apple's global desktop market share is 6% to Microsoft's ~90%. Yes yes mobile is the future, but people worldwide still spend way more time using MS products than Apple products, even when you take that into account. There are legitimate reasons to suspect that Apple's most innovative days are behind them. (For instance, my guess is that, barring the Apple TV which the late Steve may or may not have bequeathed them, they have no "next big thing" in the pipe.) But the ones you describe are not among them.

taligent 14y ago

Apple does NOT have a patent on rectangles or rounded corners. And there is no evidence that Apple's image hasn't been tarnished at all in the eyes of the general public. I see no reason that the iPhone 5 and iPad Mini will again be record breaking sellers for Apple this year.

anthonyb 14y ago
And yet Apple's legal team suggested that Samsung build smartphones and tablets without rounded corners in order to avoid being sued: http://www.pcworld.com/article/245493/apple_to_samsung_dont_make_thin_or_rectangular_tablets_or_smartphones.html http://www.pcworld.com/article/245493/apple_to_samsung_dont_... Legal brief here - section 2-40 (p 10): http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/807407/Apple_Reply_Expert_declaration.pdf http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/807407/Apple_Reply_Expert_...