Apple may have plenty of announcements of its own to make at this year’s WWDC, but it looks like it just couldn’t help itself from taking a few jabs at Microsoft as well. Doing the honors was Bertrand Serlet, who took the stage by saying “what a sharp contrast with Vista our OS is,” and only got rolling from there, pointing out “what a big hole Microsoft has dug,” and adding that “they’re trying to get out of it with Windows 7.” Of course, Serlet didn’t have many good things to say about Windows 7 either, which he says has “even more complexity” than Vista because it’s just based on the “same old tech as Vista.”
These are some of the disgusting,shocking tactics Apple stooped to this WWDC, bashing a product that has been hailed by the entire tech community. I remember Jobs in the 1997 Boston Macworld. I remember him saying “We have to let go off the notion that for Apple to win Microsoft has to lose. We must understand that for Apple to win, We have to perform better.”
I clearly dont see the same company before my eyes today. Throwing away my iPod and Time Capsule. Not using it until Apple comes up with a public apology.
Web Response
“Seems like Apple are scared about Windows 7“
“Apple is scared, and they should be, because Windows 7 is better that anything they could hope to make. Can’t beat it? Bash it. …Pathetic.”
“At least Windows 7 is not called Windows Snow Vista.“
“What’s more telling is that in their own keynote, Apple still feels it necessary to try to belittle the competition, not by outdoing them, but by making snide remarks about how bad that competition is. I’d much rather hear them talk about how they’re improving their products to overcome the competition, rather than them talk about how much of misguided tech-snobs they are.”
“That’s pretty tasteless, I’ve got to say.“
“Windows 7 is just the same old Windows Vista! Now let’s take a look at our OS which is just the same old Leopard”
“They know that Windows 7 will sell more copies in the first week than they’ve ever sold of OSX.“
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can i buy your time capsule?
me too!
i'll take the ipod
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really, chill out. no heavens have fallen.
apple hasnt done anything wrong.
apple doesnt care if you dont use your ipod and time capsule.
vista is anyway crap. my dad just bought a new sony vaio 3 days ago. which has windows vista business on it. the slowest new laptop i have seen in recent times.
this is not even a mac vs. pc comment so dont think im writng as a mac fanboy. after not having used windows for almost 3 years i thought vista would be something better. big disappointment.
so before you have such a knee-jerk reaction to something that microsoft also does, please atleast analyse what theyre talking about.
and we've come a long way since 1997, i hope you realise that too.
and in your web responses, i dont know where you got them from but im sure it was people who did not see the keynote.
if they had, they wouldnt have talked about snow leopard being the same as leopard. and its only for
$29 for all leopard users. about a few million of those.(couldnt get the exact but i reckon around 75).
whats more? it only comes in one version of Mac OS X Snow Leopard.
so again, chill out. its healthy competition. read the history books. microsoft has done it several times.
I dont know about you aditya, but i have used the RC build of windows 7.. and yes its a great leap from vista, but vista was a bucket of crap.
Windows 7 is what they should have launched in place of vista. Its good stuff but nothing groundbreaking. Other than XP mode (XPM), which i thought was a cool idea, though even that comes with string attached.
There are some good under the hood improvements, but i think what apple has done with snow leopard in terms of performance seems much better.