[X4U] Apple Software changes to drive hardware sales

Shawn King shawn at yourmaclifeshow.com
Mon Oct 7 09:07:42 PDT 2013


On Oct 7, 2013, at 8:28 AM, Ken Johnson <kenjohnso at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm no blind worshipper of Steve Jobs. I regard a lot of changes he made in his last ten years as undesireable (like the replacement of some Unix techniques and the OS X - iOS merge). What I really deplore is using software changes to force hardware sales. He started that and it's being continued.

No - he didn't. It's been going on as long as there have been computers.

> If I were ever in the market for a Tablet or a Smartphone I would buy second best rather than Apple simply because of that.

Buying "second best" because you're pissed at a dead guy is idiotic.

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