Zelest, you made a good point.
That's why we should contribute to projects like OpenPandora or OpenCores RISC SoC.
That's why we should contribute to projects like OpenPandora or OpenCores RISC SoC.
Reasons to love AND hate Sony, Apple, and/or Microsoft
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EA?
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Does EA really have their own developers? I though they only buy games from developers they bought.
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Those devs are typically absorbed into EA, I think. Just look at Bullfrog.
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The words "Big and Evil" tend to only apply to one super publisher. Activision...I don't think EA are evil, they still publish new IP. The only new IP you will see from Activision will be whatever Bungie are up to, and even that will likely be milked for the next decade.
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But do they offer stuff for iOS?
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Both EA and Activision offer iOS content. In fact almost everyone and their gran offers iOS stuff.
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Huh. Carry on, then.
Microsoft:
Honestly I have little problem with them as a company, although Ballmer needs to be replaced. They tend to make good software and put real investment in innovation, unlike Apple who simply steals or eats gimmicks they then pretend were theirs. They are good competitors to the Linux community, and I think both ultimately benefit from the others existence.
My biggest gripe with them in recent years is after dominating the computer encyclopedia industry with Encarta they just decided to up and cancel the division and tear down all the infrastructure in 2008.
Sony:
Sony used to be a decent company, but the quality of their products has dropped drastically, and they're finally paying through the nose for their Dalek style antics. The liabilities associated with these attacks are getting high enough they should become irreversibly insolvent even without the massive damage to consumer confidence.
Apple:
It's an open question is Apple was ever truly not corporate evil incarnate. They originally made it big due to the VisiCalc spreadsheet program, which allowed people to do various little things they needed to do without bugging the database programmers. Their main competitor, and their chip supply vendor for the Apple IIc line that kept them solvent, was Commodore.
Apple was not however content to simply be a business machine and home computer vendor. No, Steve Jobs bribed his way into the Xerox Alto facility with Apple stock and in turn used the ideas he stole from them to attempt to keep himself afloat straight through to when Apple bought him out and reintegrated him. The reality pro-Apple history neglects is Xerox Alto, Apple Lisa, and the _Macintosh_ all sold poorly and the only reason Xerox didn't sue Apple out of existence at that point was their legal section indicated there was no traction. Which didn't stop Apple from licensing technology, that wasn't theirs and Job's only stops short of blatantly admitting was literally Reverse Engineered from the Xerox Alto disks he bought en mass for his entire programming division, and was not exactly functional when shoved out the door just like OS X in 2001.
Having committed Grand Theft OS, what does Job's do?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSiQA6KKyJo. Summary "how dare IBM take a cautious approach!" followed up by trying to cast IBM as Big Brother literally ala 1984. While of course lying, as forever and always, that the Commodore CPU powered Apple II was the first personal computer. Indeed Commodore is never even acknowledged in the entire speech despite being one of their main hardware vendors and the company selling the most PCs. His statement Apple II is the most popular may be technically true at that point due to being able to weasel on Commodore having their model line more diversified in the time between 1977 and 1983. The reality however was that the VIC-20 was the first computer to ever sell a million units despite its short run, and the Commodore 64 would already have begun coming in and showing it was vastly more popular then any Apple product.
Hence they supposedly shown how they were going to liberate everyone from a new player in the already diverse home computer market, who according to them would enforce purity and remove choice despite IBM being revolutionary in introducing for the first time ever the concept of Open Hardware and giving their customers a choice between QDOS and the then standard CP/M. Anyone who didn't get the real undertone of just who Apple really was should have been dissuaded in
https://www.youtube.com/embed/R_qE6gMlou8?feature=oembed ad. Note the very common UNIX and UNIX based Operating Systems available at this point were never subject to the Y2K bug, due to a completely different time handling technique, while they were simply in the category, with Microsoft, of setting up Y2K compliance. Also note by the point the Lemming Ad makes the Macintosh having enough software to be useful as more then a conversational piece, the truly revolutionary Amiga A1000 has been shown off.
This isn't even going into the way they cooked their numbers during the PowerPC era in ways that were utterly dishonest, the betrayal of their Apple II customer base, Jobs somehow convincing various companies to do things that weren't in their best interest to prevent him from ending up living on the street, or their having no real competition for Patent Tolling. What really annoys people in general about them though is their lying about introducing a revolutionary new product to the market, when that product already exists, playing to the "special" people club, and the antics of people treating it as some kind of luxury product others are supposed to drool over. Particularly as in pursuit of these they love to be obnoxious to anyone not using a Apple product, with whatever nonsense propaganda about their "perfect" "pure" hardware that insures their unending chant that "Through Purity We Shall Prevail!" against Android, Microsoft, and anyone else who dare using anything not controlled by Soviet Apple and Big Brother Jobs.
And of course the fact they're willing to be out and out scum in handling a government contract doesn't win them any points. Or that their spiteful enough to try to sue their main equipment vendor, Samsung, based on the idea Android tablets infringe on them under a look & feel basis, like their nonsense lawsuit against Microsoft even though Archos among other vendors had Android Tablets before there was an iPad and Microsoft has played with the form factor for around a decade.
Honestly I have little problem with them as a company, although Ballmer needs to be replaced. They tend to make good software and put real investment in innovation, unlike Apple who simply steals or eats gimmicks they then pretend were theirs. They are good competitors to the Linux community, and I think both ultimately benefit from the others existence.
My biggest gripe with them in recent years is after dominating the computer encyclopedia industry with Encarta they just decided to up and cancel the division and tear down all the infrastructure in 2008.
Sony:
Sony used to be a decent company, but the quality of their products has dropped drastically, and they're finally paying through the nose for their Dalek style antics. The liabilities associated with these attacks are getting high enough they should become irreversibly insolvent even without the massive damage to consumer confidence.
Apple:
It's an open question is Apple was ever truly not corporate evil incarnate. They originally made it big due to the VisiCalc spreadsheet program, which allowed people to do various little things they needed to do without bugging the database programmers. Their main competitor, and their chip supply vendor for the Apple IIc line that kept them solvent, was Commodore.
Apple was not however content to simply be a business machine and home computer vendor. No, Steve Jobs bribed his way into the Xerox Alto facility with Apple stock and in turn used the ideas he stole from them to attempt to keep himself afloat straight through to when Apple bought him out and reintegrated him. The reality pro-Apple history neglects is Xerox Alto, Apple Lisa, and the _Macintosh_ all sold poorly and the only reason Xerox didn't sue Apple out of existence at that point was their legal section indicated there was no traction. Which didn't stop Apple from licensing technology, that wasn't theirs and Job's only stops short of blatantly admitting was literally Reverse Engineered from the Xerox Alto disks he bought en mass for his entire programming division, and was not exactly functional when shoved out the door just like OS X in 2001.
Having committed Grand Theft OS, what does Job's do?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSiQA6KKyJo. Summary "how dare IBM take a cautious approach!" followed up by trying to cast IBM as Big Brother literally ala 1984. While of course lying, as forever and always, that the Commodore CPU powered Apple II was the first personal computer. Indeed Commodore is never even acknowledged in the entire speech despite being one of their main hardware vendors and the company selling the most PCs. His statement Apple II is the most popular may be technically true at that point due to being able to weasel on Commodore having their model line more diversified in the time between 1977 and 1983. The reality however was that the VIC-20 was the first computer to ever sell a million units despite its short run, and the Commodore 64 would already have begun coming in and showing it was vastly more popular then any Apple product.
Hence they supposedly shown how they were going to liberate everyone from a new player in the already diverse home computer market, who according to them would enforce purity and remove choice despite IBM being revolutionary in introducing for the first time ever the concept of Open Hardware and giving their customers a choice between QDOS and the then standard CP/M. Anyone who didn't get the real undertone of just who Apple really was should have been dissuaded in
https://www.youtube.com/embed/R_qE6gMlou8?feature=oembed ad. Note the very common UNIX and UNIX based Operating Systems available at this point were never subject to the Y2K bug, due to a completely different time handling technique, while they were simply in the category, with Microsoft, of setting up Y2K compliance. Also note by the point the Lemming Ad makes the Macintosh having enough software to be useful as more then a conversational piece, the truly revolutionary Amiga A1000 has been shown off.
This isn't even going into the way they cooked their numbers during the PowerPC era in ways that were utterly dishonest, the betrayal of their Apple II customer base, Jobs somehow convincing various companies to do things that weren't in their best interest to prevent him from ending up living on the street, or their having no real competition for Patent Tolling. What really annoys people in general about them though is their lying about introducing a revolutionary new product to the market, when that product already exists, playing to the "special" people club, and the antics of people treating it as some kind of luxury product others are supposed to drool over. Particularly as in pursuit of these they love to be obnoxious to anyone not using a Apple product, with whatever nonsense propaganda about their "perfect" "pure" hardware that insures their unending chant that "Through Purity We Shall Prevail!" against Android, Microsoft, and anyone else who dare using anything not controlled by Soviet Apple and Big Brother Jobs.
And of course the fact they're willing to be out and out scum in handling a government contract doesn't win them any points. Or that their spiteful enough to try to sue their main equipment vendor, Samsung, based on the idea Android tablets infringe on them under a look & feel basis, like their nonsense lawsuit against Microsoft even though Archos among other vendors had Android Tablets before there was an iPad and Microsoft has played with the form factor for around a decade.
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Most of Jebes' posts are pretty damn epic and informative.
Most of Jebes' posts are pretty damn epic and informative.
