Eye on Apple, Microsoft: Failures and Envy
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2010-01-24 12:28:38 UTC
- Modified: 2010-01-24 12:29:28 UTC
Summary: A few new articles/posts that shed light on Apple and Microsoft
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When Apple gets it wrong: 10 irritations from the last decade
But all this Tablet/Slate/flat thing malarkey is too much. This is a technology company, not a fully fledged religion, for crying out loud.
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Steve Ballmer defaces fanboi MacBook
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has defaced the MacBook Pro of young fanboi, and his sarcastic scrawling was caught on video.
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Thanks to AppleInsider, we learned today that during a visit to Tennessee's Trevecca Nazarene University for a meeting of the Nashville Technology Council, Ballmer was approached by a long-haired youth who politely asked him to autograph his MacBook Pro.
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Ballmer scrawls across a Mac
Of course, this is only Ballmer's latest public run-in with an Apple product. At least he didn't pretend to stomp on the MacBook Pro. But no doubt this incident will go down as one of the greatest stunts in the history of Trevecca Nazarene. Writes the unnamed student in a blog post: "My apologies for the impending apocalypse."
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