11-24-2003, 02:57 AM
Macs suck because Jobs was greedy and arrogant while Gates was greedy and opportunistic.
Jobs assumed that if he just controlled everything that people would be forced to buy EVERYTHING from Apple he'd have a captive audience and rule the world. Gates just wanted to make sure that his system was adopted, so he made it possible for everyone to get it.
Once his system had been adopted then he had a captive audience.
Apple made the cardinal sin in product development in that they decided what the product was going and which applications would be provided first and then just dropped it on the market assuming everyone had the exact same tastes as he did; that something would stick. Gates just made it the system available and allowed other people to profit by creating applications which benefitted the consumer much more because they could tailor it to exactly what they want.
Gates' way was so much better because there was a giant network of people (software providers, PC compatible CPU manufacturers, monitor manufacturers, etc) who all had a vested interest in pushing the Windows platform. Jobs had no one on his side but Apple, and the network effect made it impossible to compete in the overall sense. So MACs have this little piss-ant niche of the $1 trillion worldwide IT market and a few straggling technophobes who want Macs just to be different/better.
Bill Gates > Steve Jobs
Microsoft > Apple
Edited By Galt on 1069643257
Jobs assumed that if he just controlled everything that people would be forced to buy EVERYTHING from Apple he'd have a captive audience and rule the world. Gates just wanted to make sure that his system was adopted, so he made it possible for everyone to get it.
Once his system had been adopted then he had a captive audience.
Apple made the cardinal sin in product development in that they decided what the product was going and which applications would be provided first and then just dropped it on the market assuming everyone had the exact same tastes as he did; that something would stick. Gates just made it the system available and allowed other people to profit by creating applications which benefitted the consumer much more because they could tailor it to exactly what they want.
Gates' way was so much better because there was a giant network of people (software providers, PC compatible CPU manufacturers, monitor manufacturers, etc) who all had a vested interest in pushing the Windows platform. Jobs had no one on his side but Apple, and the network effect made it impossible to compete in the overall sense. So MACs have this little piss-ant niche of the $1 trillion worldwide IT market and a few straggling technophobes who want Macs just to be different/better.
Bill Gates > Steve Jobs
Microsoft > Apple
Edited By Galt on 1069643257