At CES MS partners showed tablets galore in all sorts of interesting form factors. A week later Apple shows a rather inferior iPad. Apple gets the good press for the most part.
Apple has never had to deal with the backwards compatibility issues that MS has. A friend of ours runs IT for a large news organization where we live. We were having dinner and her husband said why cant MS create PCs like Apple can. We started talking about the compatibility issues and she brought up how they have to keep alive old Mac's because Apple doesnt worry about backwards compatibility and they cant replace/rebuild the software for this Macs at this time or anywhere near soon.
It also amazes me how Apple gets away with closed systems and are thought of as darlings. My town opened a new fitness center last month. All of the cardio equipment have video screens. This is cool. You can bring an iPod in and plug it into the equipment and watch your own content. This is cool. Connection is proprietary iPod connector. This isnt cool. Then you realize why the iPod controls the market. It is that connector. All the accessories are built for that connector. Cars now have iPod connectors. The list goes on. That is hardware lock in to a level MS never approached.
Its libraries that sell systems not a single game.
