Yeah, but their founders claimed to be bigger than Jesus and I didn't believe that either. 
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- Edit 1Before modification by Joel at 27/05/2010 03:03:53 PM
--Oh, you meant... oh, right.... 
And I'm inclined to agree with your last statement despite far less grounds for saying so. It's all well to talk about all the stuff Macs can run and their great popularity that's only increasing, but while it's true that MacOS can run Windows and other M$ apps, there's one very important thing it CAN'T run: A PC. M$ doesn't make computers, they make software, just IBM and Intel don't make software, they make computers. It continues to be interesting to watch and see if Apples decision to address every aspect of the market will be more productive than IBMs decision to let Bill Gates keep the rights to the only OS they had for 20 years.
Of course, by doing so they share some of the same vulnerabilities to an even greater extent: Just yesterday I was reading about the DoJ antitrust investigation already begun against Apple and the new one pending while thinking, Ironic; weren't these the guys who spent FIFTEEN YEARS suing Microsoft over rights to DOS and forcing PC makers to use it before M$ basically said, "fine, you can have it; we're doing Windows now"? And for all that I like to accuse M$ of designing Windows to crash if you use non-M$ applications that compete with others M$ sells, Apple's the only company I know of that's gone on record that they ACTUALLY DO THIS!
"Who's side are you on?"
"It doesn't matter; both sides are becoming the same.... "
And I'm inclined to agree with your last statement despite far less grounds for saying so. It's all well to talk about all the stuff Macs can run and their great popularity that's only increasing, but while it's true that MacOS can run Windows and other M$ apps, there's one very important thing it CAN'T run: A PC. M$ doesn't make computers, they make software, just IBM and Intel don't make software, they make computers. It continues to be interesting to watch and see if Apples decision to address every aspect of the market will be more productive than IBMs decision to let Bill Gates keep the rights to the only OS they had for 20 years.
Of course, by doing so they share some of the same vulnerabilities to an even greater extent: Just yesterday I was reading about the DoJ antitrust investigation already begun against Apple and the new one pending while thinking, Ironic; weren't these the guys who spent FIFTEEN YEARS suing Microsoft over rights to DOS and forcing PC makers to use it before M$ basically said, "fine, you can have it; we're doing Windows now"? And for all that I like to accuse M$ of designing Windows to crash if you use non-M$ applications that compete with others M$ sells, Apple's the only company I know of that's gone on record that they ACTUALLY DO THIS!
"Who's side are you on?"
"It doesn't matter; both sides are becoming the same.... "