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A couple of things that are crystal clearA couple of things that are crystal clearPosted Feb 6, 2012 22:55 UTC (Mon) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)In reply to: A couple of things that are crystal clear by bojan Parent article: Mueller: Apple's iterative approach to FRAND abuse is not for the faint of heart
Apple does not have the monopoly position that Microsoft has, which changes things a bit. But I agree that Apple is trying to do things that Microsoft never came close to trying.
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A couple of things that are crystal clear Posted Feb 6, 2012 23:13 UTC (Mon) by csamuel (✭ supporter ✭, #2624) [Link]
Whilst not covering market share, there was an interesting article recently about the fact that Apple's iPhone business had a larger income than the entirety of Microsoft. Plus when you exclude the iPhone the rest of Apple's income was still larger than the entirety of Microsoft. So that gives them clout to compensate somewhat for their lack of desktop market share (by buying patents for instance).
http://parislemon.com/post/16997124721/size-matters
As an anecdotal data point: the desktops where I work have gone a marked change over the past 2 years - from almost exclusively Windows with a couple of Linux and Mac users to almost entirely Mac with a couple of Linux users. I don't think we have any staff members left using Windows on their desktops, the only Windows machine left is a University SOE desktop attached to a videoconferencing system.
A couple of things that are crystal clear Posted Feb 6, 2012 23:16 UTC (Mon) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
I'll bet that almost all of those Macs are running a virtual machine with windows in it so that they can continue to run the 'critical' windows apps (like outlook)
A couple of things that are crystal clear Posted Feb 6, 2012 23:28 UTC (Mon) by csamuel (✭ supporter ✭, #2624) [Link]
Not that it's really relevant here - but no, I don't believe any of them do run Windows in VM's.
A couple of things that are crystal clear Posted Feb 7, 2012 9:58 UTC (Tue) by epa (subscriber, #39769) [Link]
There is Outlook for Mac.
A couple of things that are crystal clear Posted Feb 6, 2012 23:39 UTC (Mon) by bojan (subscriber, #14302) [Link]
> Apple does not have the monopoly position that Microsoft has, which changes things a bit.
But they are trying to get into such a position by any means necessary.
Just consider the vile words of late Steve Jobs:
> "I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple's $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong," Jobs said. "I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this."
I have a lot of Apple products at home (not personally mine) and I did play with several Android devices. Similar in some ways? Sure (which computer isn't similar to another?). Android a complete copy of iOS or OSX? Absolutely not. Complete rubbish. That's just Apple being mean, arrogant and greedy.
I think these words by late Steve Jobs best describe it:
> "I don't want your money. If you offer me $5bn, I won't want it. I've got plenty of money. I want you to stop using our ideas in Android, that's all I want."
A bit rich for someone that used open source BSD to revive their dying OS line.
Oh and weren't patents all about getting the ideas into the open?
PS. Apple recently topped the world list of most valuable companies. And yet, that's not enough for them. The still want more.
A couple of things that are crystal clear Posted Feb 7, 2012 15:40 UTC (Tue) by michel (subscriber, #10186) [Link] If you read the Steve Jobs book, it seems to me it's pretty hard to avoid thinking that Steve was just a narcissist who has a real hard time distinguishing 'his' ideas from ideas of others. He probably really believed that he invented all of this and now people are 'stealing his ideas'.
A couple of things that are crystal clear Posted Feb 8, 2012 12:56 UTC (Wed) by nye (guest, #51576) [Link]
>He probably really believed that he invented all of this and now people are 'stealing his ideas'.
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