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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
How is that different from Microsoft?
Look at personal computers: if you ask people why they don't buy a Mac, they'll tell you either "it's too expensive" or "it doesn't run the programs I want." Expense is a rather subjective thing, and rather hard to quantify. But not running the programs you want is pretty solid. Microsoft has done a better job of attracting developers to Windows than Apple has done for the Macintosh OS, so people buy Windows machines.
Any developer or vendor of an operating system needs to have programs and content for it. Apple does. Microsoft does. The Linux people do. There is no difference between them. My desktop computer is just as much a "mall" as my netbook, which is just as much so as an iPad.
Of course, Microsoft is probably kicking themselves for not thinking to collect money for every sale made on their Windows platform. Think of how much money they could have had!
...Think of how badly it would have sucked to be us.
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yeah, BUT then there would have been little to differentiate MS from aPpLe because MS did the smart thing and that was put their OS on every desktop in existence back in the 80s and 90s, well around 90-93% of them anyway. Even mac users needed MS Office is many, many cases.
But I dunno why but I feel that MS did try something like that at one time or at least discussed it. Seems there was an Chaos Manor (Jerry Pournelle) in Byte Magazine way back when talking about the one time possibility, but maybe he was just contrasting it to Apple's policy.