Ten years after Michael Dell stated that Steve Jobs should just "shut down" Apple and give the money back to their stockholders, Apple's value has now exceeded Dell's
This thread had a troll named tomWright who was bashing Apple left and right. I, and many others replied to him for no good reason. Here was my reply:
<b>tomWright</b>
You seem to be confused as to the difference between Microsoft and Dell.
If Apple were to release OS X for use on generic PCs, they'd be competing with Microsoft. Dell sells hardware and so does Apple. Dell bundles a bunch of mangled, semi-functional software (Dell Wirelss anyone?) with their PCs in an attempt to improve their value to end users. Apple bundles an entire OS to make their PCs more valuable to end users.
The only thing Apple would need to change to be a DIRECT competitor to Dell would be to start selling Macs with Windows pre-installed, but even without that step, Apple and Dell are direct competitors. Both sell PCs capable of running the Windows Operating System, Dell just happens to preinstall it.
Notice that the name tomWright is not in bold. The Fark comment box allows you to insert some tags, but instead of bolding the text, my comment shows up with the raw HTML.
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