Right on, man. I'm all for playing devil's advocate.book_guy wrote:And by the way, I agree with you and get your point and didn't mean to sound like I was either defending the act of gorilla-chest-pounding as a general premise (some of the more neo-liberal free-market Moonies might actually approve of "whoever is biggest deserves to win" which, to me, is the most preposterously stupid misapplication of market principles that I've ever heard), or defending Microsoft (and, by your extension, Apple) in particular.tommyfilth wrote:"Yeah, yeah, take it to a tech forum, we want more boobs!"
Good point, Coder. When I look at them, I think of E.A. Games. When I was a kid, E.A. was just a simple video game company, like Broderbund, Spinaker, and so many others. It happened to survive - unlike those others - but what it is now is a totally different animal than it was then. There's no humility there, no real sense of obligation to their customers, no respect for the artform, just a monolithic corporation pumping out garbage that sells, and trying to buy out any franchise which they think they might be able to exploit. It's why everybody hates them.Coder wrote:Microsoft really aren't a browser Gorilla though. IEs' problem is just that it's behind the curve, 'cos for a while they pretty much gave up on it, seeing it much like MSPaint....it's free with OS, not trying to compete with photoshop. Of course this is (hindsight) a foolish comparison for many reasons, and now they're scrabbling to catch up....but they're trying to catch up with google, who are much more gorillesque than they in this arena.
I feel like five, ten, maybe fifteen years from now, people will have the same sort of things to say about Google.
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