[NoLibZone]

Sad.

I love Apple. I have three Iphone4’s. They are great.

But apple has a long history of closing off its architecture.

My first PC was a Mac IIci.

As users became more adept , Apple’s closed architecture made PC hobbyists move to what was called an IBM PC.

[Dr. Sivana]

As users became more adept , Apple’s closed architecture made PC hobbyists move to what was called an IBM PC.

IBM PCs were well-established before the Mac and even Lisa. What hurt the Mac in the early days was not only the closed architecture, but the cost of configuring a business class machine, and the insistence of Apple to not play nice at the data level with the already established PCs. Mac versions of PC apps were often crap, in part because of Apple's interference (and I am NOT just talking about user interface guidelines). Lotus Jazz and dBase:Mac being two important examples.

[9422WMR]

Apple and the other industries that created these billion dollar generating items to be sold to the American public are traitors.
Why?
Because they sold out the US populace by having the items manufactured in a foreign country so they would earn more profit. Jobs that could have supported American citizens and the US economy were outsourced for profit.
They could have still made an enormous profit and supported the country that provided the wealth.
Instead, these companies have destroyed the American way of life and built up the economies of our enemies.
I guess Henry Ford could have outsourced the Model T and the American economic revolution would have never occurred./S
Microsoft/Apple/Walmart and the others, their executives are traitors.

[aruanan]

As users became more adept , Apple’s closed architecture made PC hobbyists move to what was called an IBM PC.

You've got a cause and effect that don't go together. The growth in PC sales was due to price differences for first time computer buyers: "You mean I can get a complete computer and all this software for less than half the price of an Apple computer? Well, a computer is a computer, so, sure, I'll take the PC." The hobbyist came about by having to deal with a whole lot more unexpected weird crap caused by a wide variety of PCs from a wide variety of manufacturers and the varying degrees to which the Microsoft OS was successfully implemented or not on these machines, leading to people saying things like my mechanical engineering friend from UF, "Yeah, and that's what makes the PC a better computer because I'm always having to figure out what's going wrong and that makes me better at dealing with computers."