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Originally Posted by sNyx™
coming from a guy who just installed media center, I would tend to agree. still it's the cutting edge from ur best friend in cpu the #1 Microsoft. gotta expect a little hype. tell me Apple doesn't know a thing or two about it, iWristWatch anyone?
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Yeah, except Microsoft and Apple play extremely different games.
Apple: Advancing the consumer market using modern technologies - hence them pushing the affordable hard drive mp3 player (aka iPod), 30" LCD monitors, etc etc etc.
Microsoft: Make money off the consumer market using modern technologies - hence buying out cheap clones of major competitors and patching up unfinished programs to be released to the public so that people will buy it.
The main difference being that since Apple wants things to work aesthetically, they'll make sure that in general things work well out of the box day 1. Microsoft really hasn't figured that part out and instead relies on beta hype (which never seems to uncover the actual problems for them) as opposed to the actual merits of the software in order to gain customers.
And Google is just kicking all their asses, but that's because they have the general attitude that they own very little of the products they present... even their own instant messenger client is really just a jabber frontend. Google is all about syphoning technology as opposed to absorbing it.