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Forbes, 2005: Is Apple the new Microsoft?

http://www.forbes.com/2005/03/04/cx_ld_0304aapl.html

SitePoint, 2006: If I had my doubts before, I stand corrected: Apple is the new Microsoft.

http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2006/01/17/apple-photocasting...

Macworld, 2007: It's official: Apple is the new Microsoft.

http://www.macworld.com/article/59914/2007/09/newms.html

So is it a seasonal thing? Like brown becoming the new black in Autumn?



Since those articles are throughout the year (March, January, & September respectively) then no, it's not seasonal :)


It might be the new "Apple is dead" FUD... :-)

http://www.macobserver.com/appledeathknell/


It doesn't even make any sense. Microsoft doesn't care what applications I run on Windows, sometimes to a fault.


Microsoft doesn't care? They remove the oxygen supply of some competitors...


Welcome to 1992...


That was a reference to a quote regarding Netscape. Not 1992.

But maybe the US and EU monopoly courts are complete idiots...




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