microlith

You copyright the implementation. No patents.

Only if that lack of a sim isn’t leveraged to lock me to a carrier, which is virtually guaranteed to happen.

Because making something that works similarly is not copying. Get back to me when you find Apple source code inside Android.

Until then, the “copying” argument is pointless.

Copy their implementation? So they went in and stole Apple’s source code?

Doesn’t change reality. I didn’t buy this game to play PVP, I played it for single player and co-op. And now I can’t play my game.

Get over it, that was a decade ago.

Yeah, I should just ignore the continuing impact of actions that were a decade ago. Because you tell me to as you vigorously defend Microsoft.

Apple went from being almost broke to the most powerful tech company in the world during that same time period.

They did, and managed to gain a whole 10% of the desktop space. They moved into mobile like a boss because there was no monopoly to fight against there.

If Linux on the desktop had something to offer consumers it would have become more popular.

I think the fact that MS owns 90% of the desktop space ensured that no one interested in desktop Linux bothered making it work any more than needed for their own purposes. It’s just not worth it to fight an anti-competitive behemoth that has a legacy they themselves have a hard time getting out from under.

Why would Microsoft want to kill their most valuable asset?

Because it’s old and they don’t have total control over it. Obviously they will deprecate it over time, starting by not allowing it on to ARM platforms in a way anyone can leverage.

And WinRT is actually built on a subset of Win32.

For now. That’s probably mostly for expedience. If you stick to WinRT, they can change how it works underneath without impacting you.

And the desktop is actually part of Microsoft’s tablets strategy, if it weren’t there wouldn’t be a desktop in Windows RT as looked down as it is.

It is, yes. Mostly for getting the APIs out there and to get people used to how their tablet “vision” will work going forward.

Boy, you seem butthurt that there are people who want “features” and “capability.”

If someone was able to run faster than you, did you kneecap them so they couldn’t anymore and tell them to “deal with it” afterwards?

Well, a deliberately crippled platform just isn’t quite as useful as one that isn’t.

Sadly, MS wants everyone to develop new software using the crippled APIs on both Desktop and Tablet.

Users have a right to not have their choices dictated to them by a vendor, especially when that vendor has a vested interest in cutting out competitors.

Man, the Microsoft fanboys are out in force on this thread.

There is no evil Microsoft conspiracy that has prevented OEM’s distributing Linux.

No, that was back in the 90s, when MS threatened OEMs over other OSes.

The fact that Linux on the desktop completely sucks and there is no consumer demand has made that choice for them.

Nice chicken and egg problem there: No ability to gain market share, no basis from which to improve the desktop environment, thus no ability to gain market share…

Too bad MS managed to basically kill off all other desktop OSes years ago and establish multiple incorrigible monopolies. Once upon a time being cross platform was a useful thing, then MS redefined “cross platform” to be “from one MS property to another” rather than MS being one option among many.

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It’s microsoft’s OS, they can do what they want.

Goodness, where were you 12 years ago when MS was getting hammered by the DoJ.

I’ve been perfectly happy with Safari as the only choice on iOS.

Well, good for you.

Of course webkit based browsers are so much better than IE that it’s difficult to compare the two. I’ve replace firefox with Chrome on the desktop – Firefox just isn’t as good anymore IMO.

Sounds like you’re pretty much happy to do as you’re told.

No. Microsoft’s goal is squarely to kill off Win32 and the first step is to ensure it never enters the ARM world.

Apple still refuses other browsers on iOS. All “browsers” are either shells around Safari or, like Opera Mini, don’t actually run on the device.

Unlike Apple, however, Microsoft is a convicted monopolist that has not learned any lesson but how to be more subtly anti-competitive. And now that the DoJ is no longer looking, I expect them to revert to their old ways, only with more practice in misdirection and deniability.

Yeah. Microsoft has become such a good guy in the last 10 years. Well, so long as you disregard all the other times they’ve been in court and the corpses of their “partners” all over the place.

A more free choice that is more complex and is full of viruses or a safe walled garden.

Ah, the fear mongering reply of an authoritarian.

Why we can only have metro environment?

Because Microsoft is jealous of Apple’s walled garden and Metro/WinRT is how Microsoft will force all future Windows users down that path.

How could they block the API when it’s Xorg? And where have you seen that they’re blocking it?

I was impressed when the CEO was on CNN demonstrating his devices, and basically lied when he suggested that they printed out a complete model of the host’s head, complete with all detail, in one go. The host even suggested that they had painted it afterwards and he contradicted her.

Nah, just get an Ultimaker, Reprap, or a printrbot and revel in the DIY world without being taken for a ride.