I use Windows at work and MacOS at home. There are features in each I prefer, that are just objectively better. Preview on MacOS is one example. On Windows, the detailed progress panel when copying/pasting files is another. There are other examples across both OS's.
Seems to me there would be an opportunity to take the best features of both OS's to make absolutely killer desktop OS's across both platforms. My controversial view is, both Microsoft and Apple both know this. But neither of them will do anything about it.
Why? Because all the best unique features of each are patented to high heaven, and neither of them will pay the other. So instead - and other factors aside, which I appreciate are major consideration - customers have to choose between two OS's based on which OS is least compromised for their specific needs.
I'm even old enough to remember when it was all 'solicitors at dawn' when Windows 2 introduced overlapping panels, and Apple sued Microsoft in 1988 for 150 breaches of patent. They failed, thankfully, it taking as long as 1994 before their claims were completely dismissed even after appeal.
Imagine the OS's we could actually have as consumers if they both weren't so much up there own trillion-dollar arses.
Seems to me there would be an opportunity to take the best features of both OS's to make absolutely killer desktop OS's across both platforms. My controversial view is, both Microsoft and Apple both know this. But neither of them will do anything about it.
Why? Because all the best unique features of each are patented to high heaven, and neither of them will pay the other. So instead - and other factors aside, which I appreciate are major consideration - customers have to choose between two OS's based on which OS is least compromised for their specific needs.
I'm even old enough to remember when it was all 'solicitors at dawn' when Windows 2 introduced overlapping panels, and Apple sued Microsoft in 1988 for 150 breaches of patent. They failed, thankfully, it taking as long as 1994 before their claims were completely dismissed even after appeal.
Imagine the OS's we could actually have as consumers if they both weren't so much up there own trillion-dollar arses.
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has that advantage now.
