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"^yep, that's the type of post that highlights the emotional distaste I was referring to. It's like you don't even try to make any intelligent points."

yea I'm only the OP

I think this is the emotional distaste you were looking for:

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"We all recognize the eye-pleasing design of Apple hardware."

5/28/2010 2:41:55 PM

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" plane foolish."

5/31/2010 2:29:50 PM

For the love of ghod, did we really, REALLY need another fucking Apple vs. MS thread? No one is convincing anyone of anything anymore.

5/31/2010 5:31:46 PM

Apple > Microsoft

/thread

5/31/2010 5:36:29 PM

http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/31/apple-rumored-to-begin-paying-foxconn-employees-direct-wages/?icid=engadget-iphone-url

5/31/2010 8:27:39 PM

http://www.brentroad.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=595227

5/31/2010 8:45:06 PM

Nobody cares about your worthless chit chat threads.

5/31/2010 8:46:31 PM

and who made this thread?

5/31/2010 10:31:42 PM

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"For the love of ghod, did we really, REALLY need another fucking Apple vs. MS thread? No one is convincing anyone of anything anymore."

5/31/2010 10:33:50 PM

BlackDog, quit picking fights, and don't use my quotation in your above post (eye-pleasing design) as some sort of proof for your arguments. Further, I had zero emotional distaste in my comment.

Nobody cares if Apple is "bigger" than Microsoft by some off the wall measuring stick. Get off it.

6/1/2010 12:07:03 AM

you heard it here first, folks:
Market Cap = off the wall measuring stick

6/1/2010 12:47:21 AM

picking fights? I simply quoted what you said. Not everyone loves Apple designs and it's foolish of you to think so.

6/1/2010 12:47:21 AM

^^ i don't really wish to, um, invest myself too much in this thread, but the market cap is just what investors think it's worth right now. as has been shown regularly in recent years, the market isn't really the best judge of the relative worth of companies.

6/1/2010 7:13:14 AM

Another blow to MS, perhaps?

http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/31/google-said-to-be-moving-away-from-windows-internally-mac-and-l/

More of a blow to MS than anything significant for Apple, i think.

[Edited on June 1, 2010 at 6:10 PM. Reason : .]

6/1/2010 6:08:23 PM

given that there is an estimated one + billion PC's in the world, and windows accounts for approximately 90% of the global PC OS market, I'm not sure that even if all 20k google employees got an apple computer it would be considered even a mild graze, let alone a "blow"

and at the moment, that's all this is - giving employees linux or apple computers. but it is funny to read the prognostications in the comments about how this will cause the collapse of windows worldwide

[Edited on June 1, 2010 at 6:24 PM. Reason : .]

6/1/2010 6:20:19 PM

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"given that there is an estimated one + billion PC's in the world, and windows accounts for approximately 90% of the global PC OS market, I'm not sure that even if all 20k google employees got an apple computer it would be considered even a mild graze, let alone a "blow""

its not a blow to their market share by any means. That wasn't really what I was implying, I guess I should have worded it better. More of a "Hey, Microsoft isn't the only solution for business". I know Cisco has been doing this for some time. Not sure who else. I know a lot of companies (including the one that acquired the company I work for) are big Microsoft shops that restrict their employees from using any non-MS tools (Windows, IE, Office, etc).

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"and at the moment, that's all this is - giving employees linux or apple computers. but it is funny to read the prognostications in the comments about how this will cause the collapse of windows worldwide"

Guidelines for reading Engadget:
#1: Turn comments off.
#2: Turn comments on when bored and looking for entertainment.
#3: Don't participate.

What I would like to see happen long-term is moving away from restricting employees to what tools they can/cannot use...we've gotten to the point that regardless of what OS you're using you can still perform most general office tasks. Of course this doesn't really apply for very specific tools like CAD.

[Edited on June 1, 2010 at 6:35 PM. Reason : .]

6/1/2010 6:31:55 PM

I appreciate the fact that my company will allow you a choice of a Lenovo or Apple laptop and you can run whatever operating system your heart desires. The IT supported option is Lenovo with Windows, of course, but there are plenty of people who choose Linux or OSX.

6/1/2010 11:53:24 PM

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"Steve: One of the keys to Apple is that Apple is an incredibly collaborative company. You know how many committees we have at Apple? Zero. We're organized like a startup. We're the biggest start up on the planet. We meet for 3 hours every morning and talk about all the business, about what's going on everywhere. We're great at figuring out how to divide things up into great teams, and we talk to each other. So what I do all day is meet with teams of people."

http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/steve-jobs-live-from-d8/

6/2/2010 12:05:41 AM

Golovko, this is from the horse's mouth in ^that link:

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"6:24PM Walt: It is a little surreal. I remember talking to you when you came back to Apple... the company was in bad shape. Steve: Oh it was on the rocks. We were 90 days from going bankrupt"

[Edited on June 2, 2010 at 12:10 AM. Reason : .]

6/2/2010 12:09:43 AM

And thanks to Jobs, they didn't...did they?

6/2/2010 12:35:54 AM

Oh, yes, exactly true.

6/2/2010 8:36:24 AM

Microsoft responds to Google
http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/microsoft-responds-to-google-moving-away-from-windows-calls-it/

6/2/2010 5:58:19 PM

that is an obvious move considering Microsoft has their own search engine (BING)

that is like Intel and AMD playing nice, it's not going to happen.

6/3/2010 6:11:22 PM

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"that is an obvious move considering MicrosoftGoogle has their own search engine (BING)OS (Chrome) "

6/3/2010 6:29:03 PM

^Chrome isn't an OS from all I can see. It's a Shell + GUI on top of Linux is it not?

And Google is a pretty small company in terms of software licenses

I can tell you that we have plenty of direct competitors who run (and buy) a whole lot of our software to get their actual business done, who are a whole lot larger than google (in terms of licenses, not necessarily in terms of revenue)

[Edited on June 3, 2010 at 6:37 PM. Reason : .]

6/3/2010 6:34:19 PM

yea last I checked Google's OS is only on phones (if that) which is why I said search engines. That is the only competition between MS and Google and the only reason for them to be at ends with each other.

Chrome is a browser not an OS (at least not yet) and if it was an OS what would Linux and Apple have to do with anything?







[Edited on June 3, 2010 at 7:17 PM. Reason : ,]

6/3/2010 7:16:03 PM

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"^Chrome isn't an OS from all I can see. It's a Shell + GUI on top of Linux is it not?"

I wasn't being at all serious. I was responding to a blackdog post. When has anyone responded to him seriously?

6/3/2010 7:43:44 PM

then you are admitting to trolling in Tech Talk

6/3/2010 7:53:33 PM

hardly newsworthy. again, you're trying too hard.

6/3/2010 7:58:43 PM