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Re:Apple products are a mutant virus... says Acer founder by thenduks on Thursday September 09, 2010 @11:59AM (#1675792)
Shih also brought up the example of the competition between video tape formats, pointing out that the open VHS standard won against the closed Betamax format.

So, to paraphrase, "stick with Acer because the best man doesn't always win"? :)

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Re:Apple products are a mutant virus... says Acer founder by sprout on Thursday September 09, 2010 @01:29PM (#1676113)
Stick with Acer because a bunch of mediocre people cooperating will always win out over one extraordinary man.
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Re:Apple products are a mutant virus... says Acer founder by akshayubhat on Thursday September 09, 2010 @01:34PM (#1676136)
no because you can run programs on Acer netbook which will also run on say HP and Dell netbook's.
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Re:Apple products are a mutant virus... says Acer founder by astrange on Thursday September 09, 2010 @02:24PM (#1676300)
Betamax tapes work on other Betamax players. I hope.
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Re:Apple products are a mutant virus... says Acer founder by akshayubhat on Thursday September 09, 2010 @02:31PM (#1676340)
oh are i-OS API and code cross platform compatible? Do any other companies except Apple create iOS devices?

in fact Apple used 3.3.1 to make sure that code was not cross platform compatible.

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