Thanks to Rafe for some honesty and an attempt at peered
comparison of systems. Windows is understood better when
compared with something "other".
It's beginning to become clear to people that interoperability
within an open tech marketplace is preferable to a OS
monoculture, and the feudal market that supports it. But
Apple isn't open? No, of course not, but they are the only
shining example of peered, competitive, commercial
coexistence. Has it not always taken at least "two" to make a
marketplace? The only thing obliged to be open, was the
market itself. Ironically, the only hindrance to that, is
monopoly. Ring any bells?
It's also true that the logic gate is triumphing over the logo,
and people are beginning to understand that a nor gate
doesn't care who it's vendor is. Apple will run almost
anything now.
The future is clearly a multiplatform one. The Apple ads,
love them or hate them, always show both Mac and PC.
Either is ever shown alone. It's an essential truth some of us
recognize. Meanwhile the argument for the PC is increasingly
one on behalf of muscle memory over intellect. We will see if
this is to be a victory for the rational human mind, or a
victory for the worlds most powerful behavior modification
device.
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