Re:The Minecraft Generation
by scholia on Monday April 18, 2016 @08:43AM
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> It's not necessarily bad
It is necessarily bad if you make yourself (or, more important) your business totally dependent on somebody who is a monopoly supplier.
> doesn't mean that philosophy failed, and the recent resurgence of Macs has proven as much.
I think all the proprietary systems failed, and there were dozens if not hundreds of them. Apple was the only significant survivor, mainly for pseudo-religious reasons.
The only areas where proprietary systems survived are in mainframes (perpetuation of IBM monopoly) and in games consoles (where hardware can be sold at a loss).
If the IBM PC had died, the world of CP/M would have continued....
> the recent resurgence of Macs has proven as much
Not really. The recent resurgence is mainly due to the fact that its lack of serious and/or business software is not the barrier it was when (a) most people can do most things online and (b) it has Unix underneath.
It is necessarily bad if you make yourself (or, more important) your business totally dependent on somebody who is a monopoly supplier.
> doesn't mean that philosophy failed, and the recent resurgence of Macs has proven as much.
I think all the proprietary systems failed, and there were dozens if not hundreds of them. Apple was the only significant survivor, mainly for pseudo-religious reasons.
The only areas where proprietary systems survived are in mainframes (perpetuation of IBM monopoly) and in games consoles (where hardware can be sold at a loss).
If the IBM PC had died, the world of CP/M would have continued....
> the recent resurgence of Macs has proven as much
Not really. The recent resurgence is mainly due to the fact that its lack of serious and/or business software is not the barrier it was when (a) most people can do most things online and (b) it has Unix underneath.