<story><title>Apple is just Microsoft with better marketing</title><url>http://enfranchisedmind.com/blog/posts/apple-is-just-microsoft-with-better-marketing/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RyanMcGreal</author><text>That&apos;s a ridiculous comparison. Apple is &lt;i&gt;far&lt;/i&gt; more closed and controlling than Microsoft ever was.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jcromartie</author><text>I have to think that, for the last 10 years, they have been open &lt;i&gt;and&lt;/i&gt; closed in just the right places.&lt;p&gt;If you look at it objectively, Apple use far more open standards than Microsoft, and rarely resort to inventing standards to implement the closed systems that they want to.&lt;p&gt;Look at their open source releases: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.opensource.apple.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.opensource.apple.com/&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Apple is just Microsoft with better marketing</title><url>http://enfranchisedmind.com/blog/posts/apple-is-just-microsoft-with-better-marketing/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RyanMcGreal</author><text>That&apos;s a ridiculous comparison. Apple is &lt;i&gt;far&lt;/i&gt; more closed and controlling than Microsoft ever was.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>antipaganda</author><text>That&apos;s why I&apos;m confused - I agree with you, Apple is way out of line on this. So why are they doing this, when they&apos;re not a monopoly? Do they think that having a walled garden of approved apps and the best UI will work forever?&lt;p&gt;It didn&apos;t work for their desktop business 20 years ago, why should it work now?</text></comment>