Apple is just Microsoft with better marketing

Re:Apple is just Microsoft with better marketing by sgoraya on Friday April 30, 2010 @12:09PM (#1308545)

"fork it so it is unreadable by the original, then use it's monopoly so that no one else can create a competitor."

Although MS may fork something, it does not force you to use their proprietary language - In the examples above, you can still use the original language...the choice remains yours.

I might be biased since I've basically only developed on Windows (Visual Studio, code warrior, borland, etc.), but in the big scheme of things, MS has been more open, had more alternatives and options and better developer support than Apple...IMHO.

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Re:Apple is just Microsoft with better marketing by yardie on Friday April 30, 2010 @12:13PM (#1308559)

When you are writing for a platform that controls 98% of the market its less a choice and more a mandate.

As anyone that has had to write parallel code in HTML/CSS/JS for IE vs every other browser your choices are: do it our way.

MS was only open in their willingness to assimilate other good technologies, and then lock everyone else out once they had enough influence.

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