Interesting article,

[Tom Buskey]

On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 6:00 PM, Benjamin Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Tom Buskey <tom at buskey.name> wrote:
> >> Freedom, and low cost, and robustness, and
> >> security, and choice, and all that good stuff.
> >
> > s/Linux/MacOSX/
>
>  Yes and no.  MacOS X certainly has a number of selling points,
> several of which it shares with Linux, others which are unique.  Apple
> has done a very nice job with human factors engineering, OS features,
> their bundled applications.  Security is pretty good and certainly the
> OS itself is robust.
>
>  But low cost?  Freedom?  You never really own a Mac -- you're just
> renting it from Steve Jobs.  As someone said to me recently, "There
> can be more than one evil empire."
>
>
I don't disagree :-)  My point was with zealotry and converting people from
windows to another platform.  The layman will have similar objections in
switching to Linux or MacOSX.  Linux has the Freedom argument in addition.

Apple is more of a monopoly then Microsoft IMO.



> > Well, except MacOSX has specific hardware.
>
>   Indeed, that's a big part of Apple's strategy.  Design the hardware
> and the software together, and they'll work well together.  And there
> is something to be said for that.
>

And that's one of Apple's prime advantages.
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