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Re:Microsoft's quarterly profit drops below Apple's for the ... by prodigal_erik on Friday April 29, 2011 @02:53PM (#2498543)
Human beings deserve uncrippled tools, so I consider Apple's iOS appliances to be unworthy of us. But their customers are at least willingly buying into that dystopia, unlike Microsoft customers who were usually confronted with vendors who couldn't dare to sell you a box with a competing operating system even when asked.
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Re:Microsoft's quarterly profit drops below Apple's for the ... by ootachi on Friday April 29, 2011 @03:04PM (#2498574)
Well, you could always buy a Mac.

It's just a question of the degree of lock-in. And Apple is a master of lock-in: purchased apps for iOS and Mac OS X don't work anywhere else, FairPlay prevents movies purchased from iTunes from working elsewhere, AirTunes is locked via DRM to iTunes, things like MagSafe are protected with patents to maintain their profit margins, and so on.

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