Because it works only in small companies and only in theory.

In reality, you'll still get calls to help with $users_favourite_browser and, when refused, calls from higher-ups telling you to drop whatever you doing and go help the user, just this one time, really, because we'll lose a sale like this and we're paying you to do this, don't we and ... And of course you can reject them and point to the policies, but by then you've lost time, gained stress and still may have to go and do it after their higher-ups talk to your higher-ups.

End result - you're supporting single browser on the paper, but in fact you're supporting a browser zoo. No, thanks.

This spoken from a brief experience with a firm that tried to adopt this policy few years ago. Didn't go well. Left them halfway in the process of consolidating the zoo back to "good old" IE 7.

"The Sinclair"? ZX81 was just _a_ Sinclair.

ZX Spectrum, on the other hand, was big - at least in Eastern Europe and USSR. There was a dozen or so clones, with schematics printed in the magazines, and later a whole lot of extension tucked on, like whopping 1M RAM, modems, IDE controllers and so on.

It still has a significant community and demo scene presence.

I feel like I had this discussion before.

First of all, why do you take my assertion of "there are all PoVs represented on /." as confirmation of your anti-Apple bias observations?

Second, accusation of "no references" are quite strange to hear from you, after your thoroughly based on not one, but two comments you consider anti-Apple getting modded up. If I find you 12 comments modded as I told, will it be reference enough for you?

Didn't I tell you what you can do? Crank together a bot, filter comments by Apple/Google/MS mentions, get people to rate them by intent. It will be interesting to see and it will give a definite conclusion to all confirmation bias talks at once.

Eeeeyup, control your confirmation bias, man.

The fact is there are google bashers getting +5, MS bashers getting +5, apple bashers getting +5, fandroids getting +5, iFanbois getting +5, M$ $hills getting +5, but you chose one to meet your expectations.

Do you have statistics of pro-$company/anti-$company posts quantities, qualities and moderation? Thought so.

Sure, it was easy to switch to Linux from Win98.

Except you pretty much had to pay for Win98 and IE before installing Linux and Netscape, because MS taxed OEMs for any non-Windows machines.

Learn history, it's not something hidden.

Oh, and about how it's different from Apple: Apple's locking down their own devices to install their own OS, MS is demanding for others to lock down their devices to install MS's OS.

Last I checked, Google didn't produce any Android devices (yet).

Google didn't demand to lock the bootloader as a part of Android branding certification as well, which is why there's plenty of unlocked Android devices available.

Please shill harder.

They'll just push an update to interpret "Bleeaurgh" as "Turn off! Turn off!" after the wave of malware that redirects to goatse, tubgirl, 2girls1cup and gnaa at random intervals.

LOL, right. I just asked jQuery to count and there's exactly 66 comments out of 580 on that page that contain "Apple". Only tiny part of them are mindlessly anti-Apple - with most of them getting no replies or only "what" replies, with the rest mentioning Apple together with other corporations, mentioning Apple in unrelated contexts, asking why only RIM/Nokia/Apple are in the title and defending Apple. So, all in all it's no more than 11% of all comments, with actual number of hate comments probably somewhere in 2-5% range. But noooo, it's all about Apple, you see. And I'm an Apple hater for seeing the facts and not your preferred "Y'all hate Apple, you applehaters" victim stance.

Dude, what?

- "There was no group Apple bashing in there" (it's easy to check, just follow the link in "Related" up there)
- "You're an Apple hater because you deny Apple bashing"

You just demonstrate my point on martyrdom.

Quiz time! Q: Which parts of "major device makers, RIM, Nokia, Apple etc." are explicit by this definition and which are implicit? Q2: Can't you keep your martyrdom complex down after seeing there was no group Apple bashing in the discussion thread?