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Originally Posted by Pastiche
Outlines exactly why I wont be getting one. I am afraid of the movement in computing that Apple symbolizes, closed platform, dominated by content producers and hardware/software manufacturers.
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Good grief...the entire personal computer industry as it stands is a closed platform dominated by content producers and hardware/software manufacturers.
If all you do is consume content, be grateful the industry is built on the backs of dominant hardware and software companies, because otherwise the technology would be unaffordable and locked behind closed doors like the mainframes of old - each one unique to the company that built or bought one, jealously guarded, and completely unobtainable for the average person.
If you create content and do productive stuff with the technology, accept that you have to pay and support the big manufacturers to do the heavy lifting in tech R&D for you - unless you are Intel or some other fab, building CPU’s is not your core competency, and I doubt you want to have to write your own OS, content distribution network, and all the sales and support that goes along with that, just to get your stuff out there in the hands of consumers.
Consumers are getting products that are incredibly advanced and powerful at reasonable prices, the industry generates an enormous amount of money and wealth for the developers, and it also facilitates non-IT companies to leverage technology for their own products. How is this not a win for everyone?