Great smack written by Turbo!!!
OK, before you said: "Bill Gates bought himself controlling shares in Apple a while back...we're going on nearly 10 years." Do you know what preferred stock is?A security that shows ownership in a corporation and gives the holder a claim, prior to the claim of common stockholders, on earnings and also generally on assets in the event of liquidation. Most preferred stock pays a fixed dividend that is paid prior to the common stock dividend, stated in a dollar amount or as a percentage of par value. This stock does not usually carry voting rights. Preferred stock has characteristics of both common stock and debt. Even if these shares did carry voting rights, 7% is a far cry from a controlling share (which would be >50%).So, you did a good job of refuting your earlier claim that Bill Gates controls Apple. :thumb: Hopefully we can put that notion to rest now. I used a Macintosh Plus with Microsoft Word and Excel from the time I was in fourth grade until I graduated from high school (1988-1996). I used Word for every paper and I used Excel to keep track of money owed by my paper route customers. When I started college in 1996 with a new Windows PC with Office95, I felt right at home using Word and Excel. Of course there were updates and extra features added in the six or eight years since our Mac version was released, but the functionality was basically the same. So I don't really get what you mean. Do you mean the hardware architecture? If so, :sozo: Who cares? Seriously, what difference does it make if the internal hardware is identical? What makes Macs superior is 1) Their operating system 2) Their software 3) Their industrial design (and this is a distant third). That is because most Windows users aren't aware/familiar with Macs, so they don't even know they have an alternative to Windows. But hopefully that is changing, as Apple has recently launched a major marketing campaign for Macs. It's great for everything that 90+% of home computer users ever do, wish they could do, or wish they didn't have to do on their Windows boxes. And if users are truly dependent on the Windows platform for an app or two, or their game library, they can run Windows on their Mac. Which were original to Windows? Nice of Microsoft to leave the rest of their customers out in the cold when they want to watch a movie or burn a disc. Really? The first edition of iLife was released at the beginning of 2003. That's three and a half years ago! In the tech world, I don't think that qualifies as "recent." And that's just when the suite was compiled. Most of the individual apps had already been around for a year or three: iPhoto 1.0 was released in January, 2002. The first iLife included Version 2. The current iLife contains version 6. iMovie 1.0 and iDVD 1.0 were released way back in 2000 for OS 9. The first iLife included version 3 of both, and they are both up to version 6 now. iTunes came out in early 2001 for OS9, a month before OS X was released. The first iLife included version 3, and they are both up to version 6 now. Only GarageBand might qualify as a "recent" app, but only relative to the others or to the suite as a whole. It was first released in the beginning of 2004, and it's currently at version 3.
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