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Originally Posted by jbcohen
In my line of work proprietary is a curse word you have to be compatible with everyone else in order for us IT folks to be interested in it. At the moment my IT pals are concerned about all Apple products becuase they have a tendency to be proprietary and therefore my IT pals have turned their backs on apple. To what extent can an ipad read and run applications (apps) that were written for other platforms such as Windows, Android, Crome and Linux? They are also a rather taken back by the etraordinarliy high price tag on apple products.
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Those certainly are lots of arguments towards Android.
On the other hand, a friend of mine is somewhat frustrated with his new Galaxy Tab.
When I explain to him about the app "Spare Parts" for full screen or other tricks like that, it's just too much for him. To him, the openness of Android and its high configurability isn't any advantage. To him, an easy going Apple solution "out of the box" probably would be more convenient.
I'll help him and in 2 weeks he definitely will be happy about his Galaxy Tab.
But one shouldn't underestimate the benefits of Apple for many users:
Closed = safe
Proprietary = highly standardised for that specific plattform
Personally, I guess Apple will take the Microsoft way. There's already lots of aggression towards Apple. And Steve Jobs' arrogance ('7" tablets are DOA') certainly doesn't help.
If Apple should increase their market share, at some stage they'll experience legal actions like Microsoft did before.
BTW: I really admire Google's business model. All their services, perfectly interlinked to each other...