[Sigia-l] Microsoft way vs Apple way

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Trenouth, John:

> Control is the antithesis of open.

On what planet? 

I suppose your cousin's hairdresser's landscape architect has commit
privileges to the Linux kernel.

Of course, if we had an economy of mass-merchandized "open" consumer
products (whatever the heck that would be) we could argue about them in
*this* thread dedicated to the consumer market.

> Peter Merholz also agrees...

Well, that settles it then.
 
> The personal computer market has been very clear on its preference for
> open versus controlled:

Yes, it did. 95% of it is *controlled* by a convicted monopoly abuser for
whom the phrase "lock-in" was (or if it wasn't, should have been) invented.
If you think the Microsoft way is "open" or "free" (MSFT was admonished by
the judge for trying to lock out digital media competitors despite the
consent decree *this very week*), we have nothing to argue further... other
than to point out the tired fallacies you seem to be spewing off here:

> Macs have never broken 5% marketshare...

Mac's *overall* market share was well above 10%, closer to 15-16% before its
decline in the mid '90s.

But I'll let the CEO of Apple speak to the simple-minded factual inaccuracy
of the "market share" ruse:

"...the thing about Apple's market share that you have to understand is,
when you get under the hood, we don't sell computers, en masse, to sit on
every desk of every corporation. So when you take that out, the remaining
markets -- we have a much higher market share. Our consumer market share has
doubled in the past few years -- doubled. So our market share in the
creative-professional marketplace is over 50%.

So when you look at the markets that we compete in, our market share isn't
5% or 3% -- it's 10% to 60%. In some cases, it's up at 90%. So that's sort
of the myth of the market share. If you throw in the boatloads of PC's that
are sold to corporations, then that waters down our market share. But that's
not a market we compete in, you know? That's like saying: Let's add the
computers that are sold, you know, on Neptune."

<http://tinyurl.com/78pqf>

You have a long way to go before you understand the "Apple way".

Or you can amuse yourself with:

<http://www.macobserver.com/appledeathknell/index.shtml>

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