Comment Re:Apple Fanboys missing the big picture (Score 1) 347
Well there was a time when M$ was considered an "Open Systems" company because it worked hard to ensure the O/S ran multiple hardware vendor offerings and was not locked in to the proprietary IBM solution. M$ even used this in their marketing speak to claim they were looking out for us and protecting us from the monopolistic power of IBM. How ironic. IBM tried to lock in a proprietary solution with OS/2 but failed. Now IBM no longer calls the shots on the PC bus architecture.
Unfortunately corporate America was fixated on IBM as the real "business" solution so the superior Apple solution couldn't get more market share.
So M$ got market share because of their openness then protected it with monopoly power and got away with it for quite some time. I expect a slow erosion of their market share with the relentless presence of open systems solutions. Of course they would not have been able to maintain their market if they had not been delivering a decent solution. They wouldn't be around if they stuck with character based MS/DOS.
Competition is good.
Unfortunately corporate America was fixated on IBM as the real "business" solution so the superior Apple solution couldn't get more market share.
So M$ got market share because of their openness then protected it with monopoly power and got away with it for quite some time. I expect a slow erosion of their market share with the relentless presence of open systems solutions. Of course they would not have been able to maintain their market if they had not been delivering a decent solution. They wouldn't be around if they stuck with character based MS/DOS.
Competition is good.