[OT] EULA and legality

[Roger Eller]

Agreed.  Apple should run itself as a business in order to BE in business.
 It's a company-eat-company world, and business trade-marks/branding are
acquired every day.  Therefore the Apple brand could 'continue to exist'
even if merged with IBM (unlikely today).  One of the largest on-line PC
parts companies - TigerDirect, a few years ago acquired CompUSA.  The
CompUSA name is on the front of the store, but the store content is now
just a showroom for the TigerDirect on-line catalog.  So, a merged Apple
wouldn't be quite the same anymore, I would imagine.

I tend to pull for the underdog, incase you guys haven't noticed.  :-)
 After all, I was once an Amiga fan-boy "based on its merits".  Microsoft
Windows was/is/probably will continue to be a standard for a long time.  If
Apple would open up OS X to other hardware, this could change.  I don't
mind OS X becoming simply a standard - if it is better than the old
standard.  Then, there could be something new and even better.  Something
to make us "think more different".

~Roger



On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Colin Holgate wrote:

> I actually don't mind the fact that Apple runs itself as if it was a
> business. When I worked there (1987-1992) there were a few lay-off
> occasions, and an ongoing rumor about being merged with Sony or IBM. There
> was a joke at the time: "question: What would you call the company if IBM
> and Apple merged? answer: IBM".
>
> Then a few years later things were quite dire. Each time something like
> this would happen it was possible to imagine a future where you had to give
> up your preferred way of computing. The same would be true if Microsoft
> went under, for Windows users, but there's rarely a case where Microsoft
> were in danger of collapse.
>
> The reason I was never a fan of Windows isn't because of a subtle
> difference in the way the OS works, it's because I don't like to do things
> just because everyone else is doing that thing. I would rather use
> something based on its merits. As such, I don't really like that everyone
> automatically gets an iPod or iPhone, just because everyone else does. Now,
> Apple's hardware and software is pretty good, and so is worth having, but
> not just because everyone else has one.
>
> About the $20 to upgrade to Mountain Lion, I suspect that doesn't fully
> pay for the development of OSX, and that's with Apple just having to
> support a handful of computers. Imaging their costs if they had to support
> every conceivable PC configuration.
>
>
> On Sep 9, 2012, at 10:13 AM, Roger Eller <roger.e.eller at sealedair.com>
> wrote:
>
> > If Steve Jobs really did want to make a better world (for all), then
> Apple should share its wonderful
> > creation by allowing it to run on other hardware.  Otherwise, they
> continue to propagate an elitist stereotype.
>