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Apple fires shots at all mobile competitors today, and Microsoft too

4 pointsby mjfernalmost 14 years ago

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rkwzalmost 14 years ago
&#62;&#62;<i>Content lock-in is what every company wants to get, as it makes it difficult or prohibitively expensive for customers to take their business elsewhere. The new apps and document revamp in OS X and iOS 5 takes this lock-in to a new level, by doing away with a traditional filesystem and replacing it with documents that just exist on every Apple system. This is the ultimate lock-in, and it crosses laptops, phones and tablets. It is a brilliant move by Apple for the long term.</i><p>Interesting, so it's like a private filesystem on the cloud.
pedalpetealmost 14 years ago
I think the arguments against Windows 8 and quoting the price of OSX Lion, miss the point that you can't run it unless you are on Apple hardware.