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Making an OS to work on arbitrary pieces of hardware, cranked out by rabidly entrepeneurial clonemakers on the other side of the International Date Line, is very difficult, and accounts for much of the troubles people have using Windows. THE FINANCIAL EXPLANATION is that Apple, unlike Microsoft, is and always has been a hardware company. It simply depends on revenue from selling hardware, and cannot exist without it. THE NOT-SO-CHARITABLE EXPLANATION has to do with Apple's corporate culture, which is rooted in Bay Area Baby Boomdom. Check out LuvMatch, an on-line personals service!

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All of this is perfectly congruent with membership in the bourgeoisie, which is as much a mental, as a material state. Business Contact
And it explains why Microsoft is regularly attacked, on the Net, from both sides. Free Pager
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C. Spiceby Even the hardware that Windows ran on, when compared to the machines put out by Apple, looked like white-trash stuff, and still mostly does. Adena Fire
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The reason was that Apple was and is a hardware company, while Microsoft was and is a software company. Lisa Steuben Apple therefore had a monopoly on hardware that could run MacOS, whereas Windows-compatible hardware came out of a free market. Disaster
The free market seems to have decided that people will not pay for cool-looking computers; PC hardware makers who hire designers to make their stuff look distinctive get their clocks cleaned by Taiwanese clone makers punching out boxes that look as if they belong on cinderblocks in front of someone's trailer. Fire Grounds Brilliant
But Apple could make their hardware as pretty as they wanted to and simply pass the higher prices on to their besotted consumers, like me. broadcast division
Wolf Only last week (I am writing this sentence in early Jan. 1999) the technology sections of all the newspapers were filled with adulatory press coverage of how Apple had released the iMac in several happenin' new colors like Blueberry and Tangerine. Cross Creek
N.P.S.A.C. Apple has always insisted on having a hardware monopoly, except for a brief period in the mid-1990s when they allowed clone-makers to compete with them, before subsequently putting them out of business. Macintosh hardware was, consequently, expensive.

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In fact the first Mac was specifically designed to be difficult to open--you needed a kit of exotic tools, which you could buy through little ads that began to appear in the back pages of magazines a few months after the Mac came out on the market. Chat, discussions WSTV Supershopper
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This monopolistic policy can be explained in at least three different ways. THE CHARITABLE EXPLANATION is that the hardware monopoly policy reflected a drive on Apple's part to provide a seamless, unified blending of hardware, operating system, and software. Coordinator
There is something to this. It is hard enough to make an OS that works well on one specific piece of hardware, designed and tested by engineers who work down the hallway from you, in the same company. Sys Manager

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People who are inclined to feel poor and oppressed construe everything Microsoft does as some sinister Orwellian plot. Camera
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JamesDiamond People who like to think of themselves as intelligent and informed technology users are driven crazy by the clunkiness of Windows. Wintersville
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Instead resistance and buy one; Anyone who doesn't own who PC he somehow got one feels a little mousling. Friars weird, and wonders, in spite of himself, whether it might not be time to cease anyone people to believe. Field work