

Sales of Apples iOS devices continue to soar the roof



Sources: Apple, IDC

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RE: Stock buyback
By TakinYourPoints on 3/20/2012 5:46:56 AM , Rating: 2
No, I find that having a vision for eradicating disease is far more impressive than finding ways to foist an inferior operating system to market dominance in the 90s through force as he did with IBM, Compaq, Dell, etc etc. The former is pure business backstabbery where the product/technology is secondary, the other is a real vision for the future.

RE: Stock buyback
By Reclaimer77 on 3/20/2012 10:37:01 AM , Rating: 1
Foist an inferior os? Inferior?

So Windows was inferior. Android is inferior. I'm sensing a pattern here. Pretty much anything non-Apple is and has been "inferior".

What a hopeless windbag. Troll on Takin.

RE: Stock buyback
By TakinYourPoints on 3/20/2012 5:52:27 PM , Rating: 2
Windows in the 90s and the early 2000s, when Microsoft established its dominance and monopoly, was inferior to some of the alternatives out there, yes. Pretty much everything before Vista/7.

I used nothing but Microsoft operating systems from the late 80s with MS-DOS, but in college even I could accept that my friend's Amiga and Macintosh were way ahead of what I had running on my 486. And while the NeXT platform was far too expensive for me to get my hands on, it was literally a decade ahead of its time. You should watch videos of a NeXTCUBE in action, it is insane that this sort of OS existed in the early 90s. When I say it was a decade ahead of its time, I mean it; Windows was behind in many ways until Vista, and Windows 3.1/95/98 and MacOS that were out at the same time were all a complete joke in comparison.

You seem to have some sort of inferiority complex. I was a Windows 3.1 user back in 1992, but even I can accept that there were multiple better operating systems out at the time. You on the other hand can't accept that anything outside of what you yourself have purchased is any good at all. The same applies in your political threads. Very closed minded.

RE: Stock buyback
By TakinYourPoints on 3/21/2012 1:31:38 AM , Rating: 2

I think Windows Vista and Windows 7 are great.

I know how frustrating it must be for you that I don't share the same black and white view of the world as you do. Sorry.

