"Microsofts creative destruction" + Microsofts response.

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thx1139 said:
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.

Bingo...The double standards are incredible...if M$ did what Apple does, it would get hammered, but Apple is the tech darling...for creatinga totally CLOSED system, while M$ gets beat-up for not being an open OS like linux...lol.  As for the Ipod...looks at how CLOSED it is...and it's a darling.  Looks at the advertising campaign that M$ launched on how the PC is so much cheaper than a MAC...Apple when thru the roof about it, while doing those stupid MAC/PC commercial...complete double standard...but notice that they stopped.  M$ will sit back and watch Google and Apple tear each other apart and siphon off them...kinda like...well...the Xbox. @ Damnyouall  How does Sony innovate..with the PS series...which was actualy built for somebody else?  Look at the first party games for PS series...they basically BOUGHT developers...but when M$ does that...it's moneyhatting...lol...gimme a break!