Apple Gets Closer to Microsoft While Both Companies Are Rotting
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2014-04-25 19:21:35 UTC
- Modified: 2014-04-25 19:21:35 UTC
Evil assimilated to evil
Summary: Dwindling sales and financial concerns (in addition to buybacks) lead Apple to pretty much the same horrible policies as Microsoft, including enormous aggression and back doors
"Cook [is] promoting Microsoft," iophk wrote. "He did not need Microsoft before for Apple to grow to what it has become."
Indeed, based on
this article,
Apple is following
Microsoft's financial 'crookery' [sic] by buying its own shares to create an illusion of stability. Microsoft seems to be relying on
government help (being a surveillance mole) for its existence and Apple too joined PRISM right after Steve Jobs had died. Given the patent strategy, it has become hard to distinguish between Apple and Microsoft. Like Microsoft, Apple is now a giant in decline [1] and there is no sign of turnaround. Apple is now focused on just 'innovating' more "Rounded Corners" and "Curved Display", based on a pro-Apple site [2] (Apple uses such patents in litigation against Android/Linux) and back doors are consciously left open in both iOS and OS X, confirming what we learned from last year's NSA leaks (claiming that Apple was providing back doors and making its software easy to infiltrate).
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Related/contextual items from the news:
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Following a report from Mac Otakara yesterday claiming the iPhone 6 will feature a curved glass display and an all-aluminum rear shell, French website Nowhereelse.fr [Google Translate] and designer Martin Hajek have partnered up to showcase renders visualizing such a device based off of the recent information.
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Notable computer security researcher Kristin Paget, who worked on Apple's security team before leaving for Tesla in early 2014, has taken to her blog (via Ars Technica) to criticize Apple for fixing more than a dozen security flaws in iOS weeks after patching them in OS X.
Comments
Michael
2014-04-25 22:24:45
Wait. No. I just left your world and came back to the real one. They did great. And that is without having any big product announcements other than the Mac Pro in a long time.
But, hey, desktop Linux is free, readily available, runs on most hardware - and may someday get to 2% desktop usage!
Wayne Borean
2014-04-28 00:26:26
Oh, wait. Linux is at 57% market share!.
What planet are you from Michael?
Wayne
Michael
2014-04-28 03:35:01
On the desktop, though, it is at less than 2%. And, if you look at my comment, you will see I am very clear in specifying "desktop Linux".
Both Apple and MS have lots of challenges… and they might hurt as time goes by. Heck, Apple has had such an amazing decade or so it is hard to believe it shall continue (I have been predicting their fortune will turn around for years - each time I have been wrong but someday I will be right). But desktop Linux is a non-starter. It is simply not in the game. It offers too little choice (other than some task management stuff which it handles fairly well, but even then the quality is often low) and too low of quality in general.
Wayne Borean
2014-04-30 01:10:58
The "Desktop" no longer matters. It has been superseded.
Oh, devices will still be sold that use the Desktop, but the numbers are falling. Eventually it will be a sideshow.
Wayne
Michael
2014-04-30 01:59:50