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Monday, August 23, 2004

The Tiger Report: Who is the Real Copycat?

Mac Night Owl: "As Windows users consider the prospects of Longhorn, the next big operating system release from Microsoft, Apple must be able to bask in glory. After all, many of Longhorn's highly touted features, such as enhanced searching and superior graphics support, will be part of Tiger. So is Microsoft copying from Apple? Or is Apple simply getting out its own variation of Longhorn's features first? Well, the fact is that Microsoft announced them first, so can we safely conclude that Apple is really the copycat here ... The real issue here is that Microsoft is notorious for preannouncing products and features years ahead of the actual release."

True, when Apple is copying Microsoft the real issue is that Microsoft is (often incorrectly) notorious for preannouncing products and services. That's a classic debate tactic: Take your mind off the real issue (copying, in this case). But I'm curious. Is it more irresponsible to announce actual release dates and then continuously not make those dates? Is it more irresponsible to lie about the capabilities of your products and then be forced to stop running ads about those products? I'm just curious.

PowerMac G4. PowerBook 17-inch. iPod Mini. The PowerMac G5 is "the fastest PC on earth." PowerMac G5 2.5 GHz. The 3 GHz PowerMac G5 by June 2004. 100 million iTunes songs in one year. And on and on it goes. Which company is notorious again?

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