Originally Posted by derryck,Sep 15 2010, 07:39 AM

Buy Google stock...they're the next Apple.

Originally Posted by Saki GT,Sep 15 2010, 07:30 AM

Google has had a string of failures in its recent ventures, not sure its the next Apple but the next MS.

Originally Posted by SpudRacer,Sep 14 2010, 05:21 PM

The major problem with Windows PC's is well....Windows. But then there's the parts bin engineering that all PC manufacturers have adopted to minimize costs that also drives them into a margin sapping price war with all the other clone vendors in a race to the bottom. If you want, or can only afford, cheap and are willing or forced to accept a poor user experience, you buy a Windows machine and focus on the "killer specs" to rationalize your inferiority complex.

Apple has chosen a closed ecosystem where they control key components of the design and supply chain including the OS and many applications. As a result, their unique product competes with none of the clones and they can demand a higher price. If you want the best industrial design, the best innovation, and the best user experience with very solid build quality, you go to Apple and get on with whatever it is you need a computer for.

Originally Posted by Ted H,Sep 15 2010, 10:57 AM

You do realize how many decades of failure Apple had, yes?

Originally Posted by derryck,Sep 15 2010, 05:39 AM

It cracks me up when people get on their anti-Mac soapbox and single them out like they're doing something bad. At least Mac's hardware is more closely controlled and you know what you're getting. Yes they're next to impossible to upgrade but most consumers opt to purchase a new computer rather than upgrade their existing one so that doesn't hold much water as far as I'm concerned. Sure Mac's are over-priced but they are also less problematic and have a superior OS. Sure if you're a techie you can probably get Leopard to run on any hardware but it will be a pain in the rear and most likely will be problematic. If you wan't to beat on people for over-pricing then let's talk about Alienware. I priced out my hardware with Alienware before building my own and they wanted $4K for a machine that I built for $1,200. All this is nothing more than a short term issue anyways...as 'the cloud' continues to gain traction, 'PCs' and OS's for that matter will become obsolete for the most part as this will become a service based industry. Buy Google stock...they're the next Apple.

Originally Posted by st4rk,Sep 15 2010, 11:53 AM

I love the close-mindedness of M$ haters. They think that Windoze is the only product that M$ produces. They are completely oblivious to the fact that M$ produces several other extremely popular enterprise products that work very well:

Sharepoint (suck it websphere)
Data Protection Manager (eat that tivoli/veritas)
IE (Still has a very high market share, hows the view down there Fx?)
Office suite (rightin letters and shit and destroying openoffice)
System Center Configuration Manager (bladelogic? more like faillogic)
Exchange (lotus bloats? no thanks)
System center operations manager
office communication server (lotus lametime? no thanks)

So they're like "lol windoze sucks, M$ is on the way down, their era is over!!11"

When really, M$ is here to stay, for quite a while. Sorry!

And M$ owns some of Apple, M$ helped them out a while ago when they almost bit the dust

Originally Posted by st4rk,Sep 15 2010, 02:53 PM

IE (Still has a very high market share, hows the view down there Fx?)

Originally Posted by zzziippyyy,Sep 15 2010, 02:04 PM

Umm .... ya might wanna re-phrase that ?

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp