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browser thing. Do me a favor and look at the acquisition history of Microsoft
before you make claims like this. Pretty much every major tech company is guilty
of this, even Apple. It is called "use the wheel that is already out there and save
time and money, or try to reinvent it and watch the rest of the world pass you
by".
The same can be said about Microsoft, ask all the other software developers that they've either absorbed or sued to death before you make such a proclamation. You must not have a Mac to say something like this.
- Do you acutally believe that?
- by mikejuliet November 10, 2007 1:36 PM PST
- I'm wondering if you actually BELIEVE that spin yourself... Apple is inventing new wheels because it lists its open source projects? If Apple actually (1) worked with third party developers (which they are notorious for NOT doing) and (2) actually encouraged software development on their platform, then you could compare them to Microsoft, since they have been doing that for years. Of course, that would just be reinventing the wheel. Microsoft has been giving computer users more options for years while Apple cannibalizes any entity that tries to pull the curtain on the Wizard of Oz.
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- Believe it
- by jsaiya November 13, 2007 8:22 AM PST
- >> If Apple ... actually encouraged software development on their platform, ...
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(5 Comments)... maybe they would include a full development environment with each copy of their OS? Oh, wait; they do.
When was the last time a Microsoft OS came with programming tools? GW-Basic on MS-DOS?