Apple Annoyance
The thing that I love most about Apple is their Innovation. Their tendency to pull a 180 just when industry analysts are touting Apple’s impending doom is their trademark. They tap new markets well before Microsoft’s not-so-well-oiled machine can. Well, I believe its time for them to ‘go with the flow’ again.
Mp3 downloads are forcing the RIAA and the whole music industry to change its tactics. Upcoming developments in Movie/mpg delivery will do the same with Hollywood. And by the same token, Apple’s move to x86 should be forcing the company to re-invent their revenue plan so that it doesn’t all rely on hardware sales. Its ridiculous, fear of losing a bit off of the bottom-line on a mere FACET of their company prevents us from installing OS X on commodity hardware? Its irritating, and maybe some of you geeks will understand my frustration at seeing “Dont_Steal_Mac_OS_X.kext” sitting in my loaded kernel drivers list. That made me want to throw my Macbook Pro through the wall. Its like having Windows tell you that YOU are a thief and you are using pirated software, even though you’re running Windows XP OEM on a Dell.
If only Linux could run Aqua on top of OpenStep or something…
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