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Apple has the DNA - Every Daughter Will Be A Prom Queen, But Without A Brain

Posted on 24 February 2009 by D.Williams

Apple, “We deliver freedom from choice. In the age of Open Source, we give you closed, proprietary products.”

I have a low opinion of Apple’s technical capabilities and here’s why:

Brief History:

Apple releases Appletalk Remote Access which was stolen from Microcom’s MNP4 and then had 2 bytes switched so Apple could make it proprietary. Then Apple broke the compression in other ways to make sure industry standard devices could not function. They licensed that ‘technology’ to third party vendors who wanted compatibility. All this while the internet and TCP/IP was starting to explode! I know, I was there. I consulted to the ARA team at Apple.
Apple defends the ONE BUTTON MOUSE only to later change to a standard PC mouse.
Apple chooses Firewire for iPOD data transfer and later has to change to USB like everyone else.
Apple defends the Power PC Chip (what a bunch of crap!) and then later ditches it to use INTEL standard hardware which it now admits is way better.
Apple releases the iPhone, which is beautiful, but has been beset with an array of technology problems so severe that they had to be banned on many company and campus networks until problems could be resolved.
Apple’s iPhone has many features designed to deny users access to the full potential of the device and lock them into Apple proprietary services. Apple again delivers ‘Freedom From Choice’ and ‘Restrictions on benefits’.

I could easily have listed more than 50 strange, technologically impotent Apple ‘technologies’ but that should be enough to get a sense of the company.

In short, Apple has the DNA to make sure that every daughter it produces will be prom queen but often lacking quite a bit in IQ.

While the world is embracing Open Source and Open Standards, Apple continues to create proprietary products.

Now Apple is selling industry standard CPU, Motherboard, Graphics and more at 2x the price for the same products from another company. Why? Because they’ve made them proprietary too.

I’ve got a PC on my desk that runs OSX just fine. It performs as well as the ‘real MAC’ made from the same parts. It costs $800 less. The MAC at the store is not an Apple product and more than my PC on my desk is an Apple product. We bought (Apple and I) our technology from the same place! Apples value proposition lacks integrity.

When Apple realizes that closed, proprietary systems designed to limit customers use of the products is as dead as the PPC and the one button mouse, then we’ll all be using Apples technology and some of us who are deeply into the open source world, will be very happy to help Apple teach Microsoft a few well deserved lessons.