Are you so blind you can't read or do just not bother? Or both? I never mentioned nor brought up anything general about their sales. I was strictly talking about the usefulness in price comparisons.
Again, let me spell it out for you. My comment was about the point of discussing the price of Windows in regards to OS X and vice versa. They're both parts of different business strategies so comparing them price to price is pointless.
Thus over to the next part in my post, for a price vs price comparison to be useful we would need for both OS's to be available under the same type of distribution strategy.
Now if, and only if, Apple would have the balls they would make it available. The tragic result, unfortunately, of Apple taking Microsoft head on would probably leave them smeared all over the wall so let's just hope they don't. Competition is the best for all of us end-users.
If you need a more elaborate explanation than that, find a friend to do it for you. Though I don't think you're even trying and that's the really sad part. There's really little point in having any discussion with someone as heavily biased as you. It just doesn't bring anything to the table. Heck, even Laguna has his moments but he at least he reads the posts from start to end.
If you would like to admit that you missed my point and missinterpreted the whole thing, feel free. It would only make you greater.
So having balls to do something in this case would be to act stupidly anyway. You're implying that Apple having the guts to do something would only result in failure. So why imply that at all? Even if Apple *did* have the balls, they still wouldn't do it because they aren't stupid.
There's nothing wrong with the spirit of your post. Just your logic. Or lack thereof.
And yes, I most certainly am heavily biased toward Apple. Why wouldn't I be? MS does an excellent job ensuring that, year after year as well as the rest of this sleepy industry.
I'm probably a "fanboi" because most of what MS has done for the past decade, and are doing now, really doesn't merit any significant level of excitement.
You'll forgive me if I have little to no faith in a company that has been in a near-comatose state when compared to a rival half its size and half its resources.
When it comes to the consumer sphere, MS hasn't known WTF it's doing for years. Sorry for not being super-pumped about their latest me-too attempt - the Zune HD, for example, a device that is yet again, trying to ape what Apple has already chewed up and spit out. How the hell am I supposed to react after years of MS mediocrity when we have a company like Apple churning out winning products on a regular basis?
what a clueless fanboi. I bet I've had macs longer than you have. I do software project management for a living and know what quality is and isn't.
No problem. Tell me how long and I'll arbitrarily beat it by at least three years. The internets are fun like that.
In cyberspace, we're all experts. With years of experience, managers and designers all.
As if any of that actually means anything. No one really cares. And I'm the Easter Bunny, and know what quality is and isn't.
So let's see your list of problems so the rest of us can reproduce them.
