Comments on: Microsofties: There is No Hypocrisy

By: Pete

Pete — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:04:35 +0000

“Take for example this fact: the last PowerPC Mac was sold nearly three years ago. The average upgrade cycle on a PC is about that period of time”

While true for the period 1980-2004, it hasn’t been the case for many years. Upgrades used to be because hardware became inadequate for current applications. However, RAM, video and CPU performance has plateaued — a 2004 computer in the PC world still runs today’s apps just fine. This is also why netbooks have become popular. 2004 level performance from small, cheap hardware is sufficient for their needs — even when parting with cash today.

What this means is Apple is dumping PPC well before the performance of these PPC machines with today’s software warrants it. That’s Apple through and through though: expensive and pretty but with built-in predetermined obsolescence.

By: John Baxter

John Baxter — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:07:33 +0000

A “universal” application is far less than twice the size of an Intel-only (or PPC-only) app. The code is a small part of what’s in there, in most apps, and almost all the rest is shared.

By: Lorenz Gude

Lorenz Gude — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:37:58 +0000

I am really happy to see both companies work hard to polish their releases. Heck yes, 7 is Vista done right and good from MS. And Snow Leopard sounds like a carefully prepared release that improves the OS. Great. I can tell you the latest Ubuntu is a clear improvement too. This is GOOD news. OSs are getting BETTER. And we all have CHOICES. What if Snow Leopard was a Vista like disaster? What if Win 7 failed to fix Vista? I use MS products because of the hardware and software I run and always recommend Apple to newcomers to computing and anyone doing graphics.

By: Level1Alt

Level1Alt — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 02:13:16 +0000

there is no apple tax, just deep windows discounts to maintain monopoly.

By: Marc

Marc — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 01:44:26 +0000

I think one of the issues MS is bringing up is the fact that Apple is harping on Windows 7 being Vista reborn when is fact, so is Snow Leopard. They both have code, significantly tweaked from their predecessor. Secondly, These keynotes are seen and followed by more than just developers and these people may not know what snow leopard is in relation to Leopard.

By: Marc

Marc — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:09:58 +0000

OSX < 10.3 was beta software, and they all should have been free.

If Microsoft colluded with chipmakers, so they could release new hardware, and Microsoft would stop making software for the old hardware after X years, some might say that was anti-competitive. With Apple, we just expect it and call it the Apple Tax ;)

By: Tom B

Tom B — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:08:29 +0000

Apple was being NICE; if they wanted to go for the throat, they could have pointed out that even Win 7 FAILS to make the transition to UNIX. MSFT is hopelessly mired in the 1980′s, when makeshift OS’s were “good enough”.