Walt Mossberg: "Bill Gates is Going to Destroy Apple!"

Steve Jobs just announced that Microsoft is investing $150 Million. This is a TERRIBLE idea! If Microsoft gets their hooks into Apple, they'll destroy it!

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[Vitacus]

Bring back Palpatine. LEss tech rants, more Q&A with the singing  Emperor.

[mrhogg]

More Palpatine is in the works.

[WrathOfTheGate87]

hey any uodates with the new vader? i have been totally in a vast sea of befuddlement on how youll make the new vader into a puppet when you guys chose the better vader. also did stephen accept the colbert puppet challenge?

[mrhogg]

New Vader is perpetually on the list of things to do. If I do a season 2, I might change up the format a bit, make him featured.

Sadly, Stephen Colbert didn't accept the challenge, no.

[Derf2k7]

I disagree. More Walt Mossberg, less Palpatine. So much funnier.

[1Pelito1]

I liked it, shut up!

[hardmantenbillion]

I'm not the hugest fan of apple, but if i was i would be embarrassed by this video. It makes Mac users look ignorant and pathetic.

[amd246linux]

Holy crap- do...do my eyes deceive me? A SERIOUS conversation on YouTube?

[arronhunt]

Bill Gates Puppet! WOOOO

[eddjcaine]

And apart from anything else - do you know of any other industry where you can chop and change your product? If you get haircare products, do you expect to be able to choose the ingredients? No. You get a limited range of premade options in a variety of flavours. Just like PCs, Just like Macs. Why is that so bad? You want to make your own PCs? Nothing stopping you - Apple could never stop you. It could only stop you using their products on it, and that's entirely thier choice. Rightly So.

[eddjcaine]

Plus - I really don't think you understand how this works.

Deal is this - in the 90s, Apple was struggling. Badly. Microsoft dominated the scene, and still does. But in order to use a PC you needed a certain amount of expertise, you needed to be like you.

Steve Jobs saw a gap in the market for cool, easy to use computers, and exploited it. Bam! Apple is back and enjoying great profits.

It's as simple as that. I have no doubt that if Apple WERE the dominant company, they would be very diff.

[eddjcaine]

see my post in the thread - accidentally did it as a comment then youtube wouldn't let me change it to a reply.

[eddjcaine]

No. I don't understand. On the one hand you're saying that things should be opened you should have choice, and on the other side you decide to restrict the choice to PC manufacturers only. People should know more things? WHY? why is it important for a doctor or a baker or whoever to know the intimate workings of a computer? "better of humanity"? Fuck that. I'm not carrying on this conversation. You're just being a bit of a computer facist.

[kakkoister]

I'm arguing for a better future. I never said Mac's aren't good computers. It's APPLE that I don't like, understand?

[kakkoister]

It wouldn't cost anywhere near as much as buying a whole new machine. And upgrade job takes a couple of minutes, from install to testing. That kind of service isn't worth anymore than $20.

Windows 7 not looking nice is your point of view. It's not what your used to. But it is for me, and thus I find it the most organized and good looking. Plus it's easily customizable.

And anyways, people should be willing to learn news things, for the better of humanity. It's not that hard to learn.

[kakkoister]

This isn't even about Microsoft. It's about PC's. Windows isn't the only OS that can be installed on various hardware.

I'm talking about Apple vs Open Standards. If Apple somehow prevails and gains majority market share, that's not good for the industry. As they try to control what hardware consumers use, and what software they use, to try and create a monopoly of the industry. And Apple based hardware future is not one any smart person would want. Plus Mac's virus vacation is over then.