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Apple look like they might end up like Microsoft... - how can any 'successful' business not?

forcing pc manufacturers to pre-install windows... - 'forcing' ?

...if Linux had a better... - ahhh...
(I helped save b3ta! artifus is doing it all wrong, Thu 6 Oct 2011, 18:21, archived)
# Just found a nice thing that sums it up, the situation 10 years ago:
www.spectacle.org/0901/maloney.html

But: by "ending up like Microsoft" I mean disenchanting its users by being overly authoritative, and by "forcing" I mean "forcing computer manufacturers to take Windows if they wanted to continue shipping their computers with MS-DOS already installed. Computer makers abided, because selling a computer with no operating system installed would have put them at a severe disadvantage: consumers didn't want to install operating systems themselves if they didn't have to." (from the link)

edit: anyway, sod this, time for tea :9
(I helped save b3ta! Ysol ab abl blap, Thu 6 Oct 2011, 18:38, archived)
# iSync failure: unable to detect irony
(I helped save b3ta! artifus is doing it all wrong, Thu 6 Oct 2011, 18:46, archived)
# I guess not! :(
what was the joke? :)
(I helped save b3ta! Ysol ab abl blap, Thu 6 Oct 2011, 18:52, archived)
# disenchanting its users by being overly authoritative
apple itunes, istore, etc
(I helped save b3ta! artifus is doing it all wrong, Thu 6 Oct 2011, 18:54, archived)
# ah gotcha, well yeah that's what I meant, they have started going down that road too, unfortunately :/
(I helped save b3ta! Ysol ab abl blap, Thu 6 Oct 2011, 18:58, archived)
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The OSX interface is hideously pofaced too. Boring as hell.
(Monchberter Can't go wrong with Doom, Thu 6 Oct 2011, 23:13, archived)