Its no different than the war of proprietary file formats.....both M$ and Apple have been putting out file formats which only work with their software since day 1, why? Its a form of protection against competition, bad for users but great for business. A truly good company put out products which can stand on their own merits wthout stupid tricks like this.
Both Apple and M$ are publicly traded corporations, they have one goal and one goal only, make money and keep the shareholders happy, the end users mean nothing, and they both act like it.
Business ethics? HA, what business ethics? Both companies have made fortunes stealing other ideas, being patent trolls, and every other trick in the book with as little actual hard work and innovation as they can get away with, been that way since the beginning. IS what Apple is doing right? No probably not, but its par for the course. Is M$ doing the right thing, nope, probably not, why should they? Nobody works very hard at stopping them do they?
Ive used OS X, have machine up and running it right now, same with winblows, also have 4 machines running linux. Only one out of the bunch with the guts to run on its own merits letting its results stand for itself is linux, and it didnt cost me a dime, think about it.
The computer and OS market is just like any other, you vote with your wallet, dont like what you see, vote differently, until then, deal with the way things are like it or not. Right now that means being stuck sucking on what Apple and M$ throws at you if you want to play their game and use their stuff, I expect nothing less than both companies to act like two snottyl ittle kids in a sandbox together. The bootcamp issue is just another example.
Apple is neither a hardware or a software company, they make neither, they just contract out and put together a package and sell it. M$ is a software company, they dont make hardware, and only focus on one hardware architecture for the most part. Yet they compete against each other, really a funny situation when you think about it.
my 2 cents
Both Apple and M$ are publicly traded corporations, they have one goal and one goal only, make money and keep the shareholders happy, the end users mean nothing, and they both act like it.
Business ethics? HA, what business ethics? Both companies have made fortunes stealing other ideas, being patent trolls, and every other trick in the book with as little actual hard work and innovation as they can get away with, been that way since the beginning. IS what Apple is doing right? No probably not, but its par for the course. Is M$ doing the right thing, nope, probably not, why should they? Nobody works very hard at stopping them do they?
Ive used OS X, have machine up and running it right now, same with winblows, also have 4 machines running linux. Only one out of the bunch with the guts to run on its own merits letting its results stand for itself is linux, and it didnt cost me a dime, think about it.
The computer and OS market is just like any other, you vote with your wallet, dont like what you see, vote differently, until then, deal with the way things are like it or not. Right now that means being stuck sucking on what Apple and M$ throws at you if you want to play their game and use their stuff, I expect nothing less than both companies to act like two snottyl ittle kids in a sandbox together. The bootcamp issue is just another example.
Apple is neither a hardware or a software company, they make neither, they just contract out and put together a package and sell it. M$ is a software company, they dont make hardware, and only focus on one hardware architecture for the most part. Yet they compete against each other, really a funny situation when you think about it.
my 2 cents
