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17y ago
I don't know if they are conservatists or simply too young to understand what it was really like back in the "old" days. The web is awesome. It's the most amazing technology platform the world has ever known. HTML, CSS, and JavaScript are
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The fact that it takes up to 80 percent of the CPU in a quad-core 2.66GHz Mac Pro to render a 400x300 Flash game just boggles my mind The reason is because Adobe developers don't use hardware 3d graphics acceleration. They do everything
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17y ago
Macs were also expensive, slow, monochrome, and you couldn't buy them from IBM or Compaq, for example. All of those issues are precisely because the Macs were proprietary. If they hadn't been proprietary, none of the issues that made th
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17y ago
Not the OP, but I think (s)he means because we lose them as a potential marketplace for our wares.
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17y ago
Google leaving China due to "government stuff" is a simple way for them to ease out of a market where they are losing to Baidu. according to: http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2009/12/28/googl... Baidu's market share for sear
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Apple has also shown that their closed 'circle of one' system does NOT work. That's why they lost to IBM/MS so long ago. Everything apple was proprietary and people went to PCs.