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>just as bad as Microsoft You have to be joking, Microsoft is way more hacker friendly than Apple. Try to build your own OSX PC and you can't because Apple won
by joenathan 14y ago
>just as bad as Microsoft
You have to be joking, Microsoft is way more hacker friendly than Apple. Try to build your own OSX PC and you can't because Apple won't sell you a license, Apple started the whole walled garden game with the iOS.
- shmerl 14y agoNot if you compare their stance on open standards in general. They are both bad and acting nasty with using lock-in in different forms.
- eridius 14y agoWell, yes. Microsoft is a software company. They're happy to sell you the software to run on any device. Apple is a hardware company. If you want to run their software on a non-Apple piece of hardware, you're not their customer. In fact, in the early 90's when Apple did allow for Mac clones to be built, that almost killed the company.
- Dylan16807 14y agoNow compare your argument with how they treat software on iPhones and iPads. Apple is a control-freak company.
- rimantas 14y agoNo, those who complain about Apple being control-freak are control freaks themselves: because they want to control everything. The problem is, a lot of users are just happy not having to control, they want things to work, not to spend time tweaking.
- Dylan16807 14y agoWanting to control something I own doesn't make me a control freak; wanting to control someone else's stuff does. And even if those people were hypocrites that wouldn't make them wrong. It doesn't matter if some of apple's customers are control freaks. That doesn't magically change whether apple is a control freak or whether being a control freak is bad. Your counterargument here is basically the word 'no' followed by an irrelevant insult.
- readme 14y agoI agree actually. I should have said 'than microsoft was'. They really are a lot better.