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Mocking

So I was talking with someone... Let's call him "MisterMan". I just came back from a college class where we were supposed to give presentations on different operating systems and one of them gave a presentation about OS X Leopard... Of course, I knew at least one of them would.

We get all the way through the presentation, and then the typical Apple elitism strikes and there's a video with all the stuff Vista "copied" from Apple. You know... Important stuff like calendar applications and mailing applications and instant search. Yeah. If Apple has to point fingers at Microsoft and say "you copied our calendar!" Then you go right ahead. I didn't know you owned the concept of a calendar, but if you think you do, then by all means, continue thinking that, and if that's all you got on Microsoft as far as copying goes, then I think you're just being whiny.

Anyway, so I told this MisterMan guy that the first thing I noticed about the video was that everyone in that audience was laughing and pointing fingers at how silly and stupid their competition was. That's just typical for Apple... And so this IM conversation ensued:

(9:27:38 PM) GermanShepherd: Microsoft doesn't mock... EVER NOTICE THAT?!
(9:27:46 PM) GermanShepherd: They just do their thing and make their products stand on its own merit.
(9:28:05 PM) MISTERMAN: would you mock if you owned 90% of the world? :D
(9:28:23 PM) GermanShepherd: would you mock if you owned 5% of the world? :P
(9:28:35 PM) MISTERMAN: to make myself feel better, yep :D

Perfect! Just... perfect. Apple's the low-end of the computer market share and they're just trying to make themselves feel big and bad by pointing out all the things Microsoft ripped off of them. (Things like an RSS reader in the bundled internet browser. Aww, poor Apple. Microsoft put an RSS reader in Internet Explorer... They copied your hard work... Did Firefox copy you, too?)

Anyway, this is just one of my random rants.

Oh, oh! I have the perfect set of animals that Apple can use for their next chain of operating systems! They can use birds! Yeah! And they can start with the MOCKINGBIRD, hahaha. Ahem.

This entry was posted on Thursday, April 26th, 2007 at 9:33 pm and is filed under Apple, Microsoft, Rants.

3 Responses to “Mocking”

  1. Capella Says:
    April 27th, 2007 at 12:16 am

    Apple evangelists like that make the rest of us look bad.

  2. Edrick Says:
    April 28th, 2007 at 4:00 pm

    They both copied from my OS, the Edtron 5000.

  3. Edrick Says:
    April 28th, 2007 at 4:01 pm

    And how come I never see you online Capella AM I NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU *cries*

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