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Re: stop crying (was Re: Verizon Wireless thumbs its nose at the

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2007-07-03, 7:33 am

Scott wrote:

> Little did I realize when programming in Apple Basic more than 25 years
> ago that the innovator would become such an unfriendly company.

Look at the original Mac. A closed system. Yet Apple has its reasons for
not wanting the casual user poking around inside their products, and the
reasons go beyond money. They looked in horror at what was going on with
third-party products affecting the stability and reliability of the IBM
PC, and decided that a closed architecture was more stable. Of course
what they didn't realize is that the open architecture is what drove
people to the PC over the Mac, despite the Mac's superiority (at the time).

The original Mac resulted in big sales of very long screwdrivers (size
15 Torx screwdriver with 12" shaft) so people could open them.

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