Product Wars! Part 2, Apple v Microsoft

Apple v Microsoft






This is a big one. In one corner you have HALO 3, MS-DOS, MS Office, Windows, and the xBox. In the other lots of tiny gadgets that everyone tells me are awesome and then a month later complain about them breaking in some way. Needless to say, Microsoft wins here.

The corporation itself: winner is Microsoft

Sorry Steve Jobs, but William H Gates, other than from being (depending on stock price) the richest man in the world... is also the head of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which has done wonders for many poor peoples all over the world. Microsoft has a greater diversity in products, and bucks the California trend, by having it's headquarters in Redmond, Washington, which, although less sunny then California, is a pretty nice suburb of Seattle. Apple, on the other hand , has it's small little Cupertino, where the median income is over 100k, which makes the town, in my mind, seem a bit too fake. As for business practices, it's not Microsoft's fault it's better than everyone.

Macintosh v Microsoft Windows

Since the Mac OS can only be found on the Mac, it is only fair that I include a look at the highly overrated Macintosh computer. The Mac cannot easily be upgraded. This kinda sucks compared to your average PC, where even the laptops have quick access to the battery, hard disk, sometimes the wi-fi card, and RAM. Macs are also notorious for heating issues... in their effort to be chic, many Macs lack the powerful and effective cooling systems in other computers.

The Macbook air is a joke, while it can fit in a plain Manilla envelope, it lacks such necessities such as more than 1 USB port, and an ethernet jack. Don't even mention an integrated optical drive.

This and it's more expensive!!! Oh joy! (as a disclaimer, I use a 17" Toshiba laptop... never had a problem with it)

Now for the OS... ah well, don't you love the Mac OS? I mean look at all the third party function??? And isn't it great how you can buy the Mac OS in the store and put it on a non-Mac computer? Obviously these two statements are false, the Mac OS, contrary to popular belief, sucks. How many times have you heard the question when buying software "will this be compatible with wondows?" Never.

Plus, Macs do have problems, I've had to use them, and they're no better than Windows, heck, at least when Windows breaks I can fix it.

While Vista may not be perfect (read somewhat crappy at times), it still beats the Mac OS whatever, hands down.

iPod v Zune

This only takes one line.
iPod= in style, Zune=FM radio tuner and wifi capabilities

Apple’s other stuff v Microsoft’s other stuff

Microsoft makes Age of Empires, Flight Simulator, the xBox, MS Office aka that word processor/spreadsheet maker/publisher thingy/presentation thingy that everyone uses. I don’t know what else Apple makes of use.

I didn’t even mention Gears of War, Forza and the of course HALO 3