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Originally Posted by 1eqinfinity
Haha, true  However, Apple has never been nice too. So you never know what to expect from the two not-nice giants. Endless Yin and Yang of assholes with great products. |
Right, but that's my point. You can't assume "nice". It's about motivation. Apple has motivation to support Mac—you'd have to be skeptical if they announced Xcode for Windows.
But, we know that wouldn't happen. Microsoft has been the one over the years that has proven to be the clever one in devising ways to poison the well for competitors. Apple likes to lock you in, Microsoft likes to modify the game to make competitors fail, including subverting open standards. When MS embraces an open standard like Java, it's because they want to modify it till it's incompatible with everyone else's and assume the market by default due to their size (in that case they were eventually chased off by Sun, and created C# instead). They tried to own the html browser market before that by "enhancing" html until websites wouldn't work with other browsers, but eventually lost that battle too. Apple has been a bit better about open standards.