Because there's more hardware available, more software, all of the above is generally much much less expensive, and Apple screwed the pooch -- repeatedly, and with great vim and vigour -- on licensing its hardware and/or OS in ways that would have made its OS more ubiquitous. That said, if it were more ubiquitous, there would also be many many MANY more security threats to the system.
(Yes, yes, I know that was rhetorical, more or less. One sometimes cannot resist poking the Apple fen. Heck, I used to be one of them, until I desperately needed to replace my computer and couldn't afford even a low end Mac on my then-salary. But I could afford a midrange PC laptop for a model that was just being replaced.)
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
ninetydegrees
no subject
on 2008-05-08 10:14 pm (UTC)Because there's more hardware available, more software, all of the above is generally much much less expensive, and Apple screwed the pooch -- repeatedly, and with great vim and vigour -- on licensing its hardware and/or OS in ways that would have made its OS more ubiquitous. That said, if it were more ubiquitous, there would also be many many MANY more security threats to the system.
(Yes, yes, I know that was rhetorical, more or less. One sometimes cannot resist poking the Apple fen. Heck, I used to be one of them, until I desperately needed to replace my computer and couldn't afford even a low end Mac on my then-salary. But I could afford a midrange PC laptop for a model that was just being replaced.)