Re: Woz calls for a more open apple

[Egan Ford <datajerk@gmail.com>]

On 5/18/12 1:02 AM, Helpful Harry wrote:
> In article
> <a65bb712-ec47-46c2-9d1f-edf11e13977e@j3g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>, Kevin
> Dady<kevin@hackaday.com>  wrote:
>
> > > The Mac is already "open" in the sense of what Woz seems to be complaining
> > > about. People can already add extra abilities via USB, Thunderbolt,
> > > Firewire, and on the Mac Pro there are PCI slots, extra drive bays, etc.
> >
> > Yea but then you get into the hooey of "apple only" crap like special
> > hard disks and video cards, which wore out its welcome in the early
> > 90's, let alone now that its just a PC with an open source based OS in
> > a shiny box
>
> Most PC's are just ugly boxes with a buggy OS, both of which are usually
> hopeless attempts at trying to copy Apple.
>
> Helpful Harry  :o)

+1