我敢肯定,我的爱好苹果的朋友都去给我这个职位的困难时期。但是,我不能只是单纯地站在一旁,再和大家观看喝毒药股价库尔急救。快来人,我当然不能看到“劣迹斑斑”,现在体现苹果的唯一的人。虽然我已经尽了最大努力停止我认识的人从加入苹果的崇拜,我铤而走险的请求往往充耳不闻。当然,我在乎通常已经是人塞进自己的耳朵iPhone耳塞。但是,我还是尽量尽管已经成为内河码头站举行了“2012 Macworld大会 - 世界将终结”的家伙标志。
所以,我现在正在下降,这似乎传达信息和讨论相当不错,博客文章在媒体上回来。我可能不会有一个庞大的追随者,但肯定如果我写下我的想法,那么也许别人会读我的话,并采取在苹果第二次看。也许他们会通过他们所读给别人,依此类推,直到人们只是停止爱他们。或者,至少是梦想。:>)
So… how does one paint Apple as being the devil in sheep’s clothing? Well, surely telling everyone that Apple is a drunken alcoholic that likes to stomp on their neighbor’s roses isn’t going to work. While I like to think of the world as a 1950’s suburb that thrives on gossip, we sadly do not live in that sitcom that taught me early American history (you can learn so much from the TV). Instead, the path I have choosen to take is to relate Apple to something that everyone already thinks is evil, Microsoft.
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In certain respects, Apple is very hard to compare to Microsoft when it comes to size. After all, their markets are not 100% the same, but they do still compete in a number of areas. So… to compare their size, let’s fall back on market cap. As of this week, Apple had a market cap of ~$235 billion were as Microsoft’s market cap was around ~$275 billion. If you ask me, that is pretty darn close and considering that Apple is forecast to surpass Microsoft this summer in market cap. One might conclude that Apple will be the bigger company.
For years, I have heard Apple lovers lament that Microsoft is evil because of its size. So if size is an indication to how evil a company is, then surely Apple will be more evil once it passes Microsoft?
Monopoly
然而,在苹果爱好者为什么 - 微软是邪恶列表中的其他项目符号,是长期‘垄断’。不要与大家的喜爱的家庭棋盘游戏,一直下降到背部刺伤,黑幕交易,以及100家酒店在波罗的海大道(来吧)相混淆。但是,垄断是指一个公司拥有全部或几乎全部的市场份额给定类型的产品或服务。是的,微软显然对操作系统(Windows),互联网浏览器(Internet Explorer)和办公套件(办公室)垄断。我可能会丢失一个或两个市场,但在提到的领域,微软是在明确的控制和不时有滥用权力从而使他们的罪恶。
除了MP3播放器,苹果真的没有在其他市场全垄断。然而,他们确实有很多的势头和给定的时间,您可能会看到他们升入控制市场的手机,平板电脑,以及其他各种小工具的途径。然而,垄断的垄断问题或不为那种在我看来跛脚的。最后,这是该公司的行动和似乎给感受的他们是多么邪恶。例如,微软的人抱怨,他们锁定用户到一个单一的选择,抬高价格,并在他们的商业惯例行事掠夺。
好伙计,是不是苹果如何操作?我最后一次检查,他们认为相对于他们的产品非常闭关锁国。从硬件上通过操作系统和应用程序,以他们控制一切。事实上,如果我在一个操场上,我会打电话给这个具有与5年级欺负守着唯一入口barbwire的沙箱。这可能不是唯一的沙箱,但每个人都认为它很酷,并希望在其中发挥。苹果知道这一点,因此他们抬高他们出售一切价格。此外,苹果公司就像90年代的微软正日益成为越来越多的掠夺。例如:
- 他们被起诉HTC在其支持Android。
- 在常规拒绝iPhone应用程序像谷歌语音,歌剧院(以及终获批准),吊带与他们竞争,这样的例子不胜枚举。
- They increasingly try to constrain developers more and more. Just look at the revised developer agreement, and the use of private APIs. Granted Microsoft has some of this but until Window Mobile 7 didn’t take the walled garden approach like Apple.
- 而且,我敢肯定列表可以继续...
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或者,如果你愿意,你还可以检查出一些泰森的最新出版物:
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- Windows Server 2008的偷跑(是的,我确实帮助这本书)
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