Originally posted by Mez:

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Yes they both do rip us off but no one has a gun to our heads to buy their products. I am with DXR88. I do hate Apple because of their ethics but admire them as the only huge company in the world that truely has a vision and means to take that vision to market. They know what will sell.

I am laughing at these cloud phones now but I wouldn't be surprised if they sell like hot cakes when they come out. I am too old fashon for cloud technology. I like the privacy of physically having my stuff under my control. I learned a lesson when hotmail blew away my account. I figured they had the stuff backed up. I lost 5 yrs worth of archives. I even had stored stuff up there for safe keeping. They blamed me for deleting my account. I told them that is about like eating your self. They were unimpressed with my analogy. I learned later a whole server farm had crashed and that they lost millions of accounts. Of course they never fessed up to that.

Apple is in a different league than where M$ is but who knows where they will be in 5-10 yrs. Right now techies run the company but some day soon the suits will start taking over. When Jobs dies it will be like when Gates left M$. That is when the suits will take over and suck it dry.

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