You know whats the difference between an apple OS and a Windows OS, on apple products everything works as intended, On windows systems you allways find yourself tweaking and changing settings to get things to run perfect,
Tweaking and changing what for example?
You make it sound like nothing runs right on Windows if you don't tweak Windows, yet I've never had to tweak anything ever and I don't even know what your referring to that needs adjusting.
Apple makes products for the happy few, windows products are for the masses..
Exactly, Microsoft owns 95% and Apple owns 5%
In the end Apple will survive as the happy few can pay it, WIndows will slowly vaporize while open source products take its place.
Let be real here, any company which owns 95% of the market ain’t going anywhere any time soon.
Apple's downfall is the fact that you have no choice in anything. The system is locked down, and every single iPad and iPhone all look the exact same. There's no variation in anything, it's like a dictatorship.
Windows 7 phones are coming out in over 20 different flavours, and there's also an array of Tablets on the way all different, but all running a full OS.
Apple are not going to be able to compete with that. They will as always have their fan boys loyalty but the rest of the word will buy what they want, and run on it what they want.
THe I-pad has a broad future as mediazine.. the paper of the future where foto's, movies, books, magazines all blend together.. Its a special kind of products these pads..and they are not meant or created for making music..
That view does not take into consideration Android devoices, Cloud, Windows 7, and the Kindle type devices. All of which cost significantly less than an iPad and more offer infinitely more function.
All of which by this time next year will be available on a huge range.
I like Apple, I have an iPhone myself but it ain’t the utopia Fan Boys believe it is. I can think of 3 instances in my time owning an iPhone where Apple actually killed certain functions and bough instability to the phone. The latest OS runs so freaking slow on my wifes 3G phone that it makes it almost unusable. Everyone on Apples forums feel the same way about it too.
Regards
James
[This message has been edited by Irishacts (edited 12-12-2010).]