Comment Re:iphone = macintosh (Score 1) 574
Those who don't know their history are condemned to get it wrong. Simply making a statement like that doesn't make it true.
The most important question back then was "Is it IBM compatible?" because back then the people who approved computer expenditure were the biggest buyers by a mile and they never got fired for buying IBM (compatible). These days "Will it work with my iDevice" is much more likely, as even MS realises.
Back then Jobs was fired. He might die any time soon, but he is a lot less likely to get fired that Ballmer.
Back then Apple tried to set its own standards, now it actively pushes industry standards (CUPS, Webkit etc etc)
Back then the world was a place of geeks and nerds, now it is a place of consumers who can't even remember what an autoexec.bat or config.sys is and don't fucking care. They just want it to work, so a curated garden that keeps the weeds out looks pretty fucking cool as they try to clear conficker off their PC yet again..