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About this siteFor six years, the Internet Nexus served as my technology blog, but I've since started blogging at the SuperSite Blog instead. If you're looking for the blog, please head there. --Paul Thursday, July 01, 2004Apple is as predatory as MicrosoftGigaom.com: "Think of me as a glutton for punishment. What I am about to write is going to get me a smack-down from Apple lovers all across the planet. As full disclosure, I love my OS-X, love my IPod and my miniPOD. In fact I support Apple by buying ridiculously expensive peripherals and accessories. In fact, I can ill-afford a new PowerBook ever year, but I forsake my Dunhill’s and Gray Goose for three months to pay for the shiny object of desire. But today, I was simply and completely disgusted by Apple’s actions. The company announced its new OS, code-named Tiger. It looks very nice and cool. It has tons of new features and one in particular are the reason I am writing this post: Dashboard ... it is a direct rip-off of Konfabulator, a $25 Macintosh program which has been doing this for the longest time. Shame on you Apple! ... This is a sign that Apple is as predatory that Microsoft and is perhaps more evil than the Barons of Redmond. Why? because time and again, Apple takes the best ideas from the 'lone coder' community and subsumes into its operating system. It wants everything in the OS, just like [Microsoft does with] Windows."I have yet to see an example where Microsoft went after an individual writing a single shareware application, but then there is so much more third party development on the Windows side, that kind of thing wouldn't typically generate much news. It seems to me that Microsoft does have a track record of killing off huge companies, however. Kind of interesting comparison: I wonder that Apple doesn't ever try to take on companies its own size. On the playground, we call such people bullies. [ Posted at 11:19 AM | Permalink ]
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