Looking down the hardware of a console is very, very different to locking down the hardware of a personal computer. Though with the way consoles are going I suppose you do have a bit of a point.
Apple lock their machines, enforce draconian levels of security from their staff being insane.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/23/technology/23apple.html?_r=1
If you want to upgrade your hardware you can't barring a few small changes like hard drives though from something I was told by a Mac user the other day, older Macs couldn't have larger hard drives than when they were built.
The above article also notes how Apple will try to sue the bejesus out of people for covering technology releases, the very people they should be encouraging to help develop demand for their products, instead of relying on the hardcore Mac fanbase who'll buy anything and everything Mac because it's a Mac. Which is retarded beyond belief.
Then you have things like the iPhone 4 debacle which, if you're not too jaded, you could see as a mistake or if you're even the slightest bit jaded, could see it as a way of targeting early adopters of the iPhone 4 to get them to not just buy the phone once, but twice when the antennae was 'discovered'. Something so basic and so integral to a mobile, you know, being able to receive and transmit phone calls being hampered by holding the damned thing seems a problem too vast to not have been discovered immediately and corrected before release to the public.
To add to my above post, you then have the fact that they've released consecutive releases of their iPods, iPhones etc year after year 'fixing' and adding in features that should have been on the previous generation. Again, the iPhone 3 and iPhone 4 immediately springing to mind.
Further on their phones, Apple have tried everything to make jail breaking their phones illegal from claiming it could allow hackers to crash mobile phone networks and the like as well as releasing updates purposefully to brick previously jail-breaked phones. Then you have them suing the bejesus out of that Californian company who made Hackintoshes, sold them with the same specs to their equivalent Apple lines for a fraction of the cost. Can you say monopoly? And people go after Microsoft for being a monopoly. At least with Windows, after you've bought it you can do what you like with it and as long as it doesn't break any laws with it.
Interestingly enough, now that Apple are coming into the limelight more than they used to with more and more people buying Macs and other Apple products you're seeing a lot more problems with them. Like those 27" Mac screens that had a massive recall.
Then you have security. What's the security on an Apple computer? Nothing. Sweet bugger all. The only thing that keeps the majority of Apple computers from suffering the bouncing beach ball of death is that the market is so tiny that virus venders don't see it as a viable target. That's why in just about every Black Hat event, the Apple entry is the first to fall. The last one I really followed was the 2008 one where the Apple computer on show was hacked in two minutes flat, the Vista machine wasn't hacked till they introduced third party software and no one even came close to hacking the Linux machine.
Apple lock their machines, enforce draconian levels of security from their staff being insane.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/23/technology/23apple.html?_r=1
If you want to upgrade your hardware you can't barring a few small changes like hard drives though from something I was told by a Mac user the other day, older Macs couldn't have larger hard drives than when they were built.
The above article also notes how Apple will try to sue the bejesus out of people for covering technology releases, the very people they should be encouraging to help develop demand for their products, instead of relying on the hardcore Mac fanbase who'll buy anything and everything Mac because it's a Mac. Which is retarded beyond belief.
Then you have things like the iPhone 4 debacle which, if you're not too jaded, you could see as a mistake or if you're even the slightest bit jaded, could see it as a way of targeting early adopters of the iPhone 4 to get them to not just buy the phone once, but twice when the antennae was 'discovered'. Something so basic and so integral to a mobile, you know, being able to receive and transmit phone calls being hampered by holding the damned thing seems a problem too vast to not have been discovered immediately and corrected before release to the public.
To add to my above post, you then have the fact that they've released consecutive releases of their iPods, iPhones etc year after year 'fixing' and adding in features that should have been on the previous generation. Again, the iPhone 3 and iPhone 4 immediately springing to mind.
Further on their phones, Apple have tried everything to make jail breaking their phones illegal from claiming it could allow hackers to crash mobile phone networks and the like as well as releasing updates purposefully to brick previously jail-breaked phones. Then you have them suing the bejesus out of that Californian company who made Hackintoshes, sold them with the same specs to their equivalent Apple lines for a fraction of the cost. Can you say monopoly? And people go after Microsoft for being a monopoly. At least with Windows, after you've bought it you can do what you like with it and as long as it doesn't break any laws with it.
Interestingly enough, now that Apple are coming into the limelight more than they used to with more and more people buying Macs and other Apple products you're seeing a lot more problems with them. Like those 27" Mac screens that had a massive recall.
Then you have security. What's the security on an Apple computer? Nothing. Sweet bugger all. The only thing that keeps the majority of Apple computers from suffering the bouncing beach ball of death is that the market is so tiny that virus venders don't see it as a viable target. That's why in just about every Black Hat event, the Apple entry is the first to fall. The last one I really followed was the 2008 one where the Apple computer on show was hacked in two minutes flat, the Vista machine wasn't hacked till they introduced third party software and no one even came close to hacking the Linux machine.
