RE: Apple
> You can't really compare Apple's iPhone with MS
> Vista - the reason beeing that Apple produces the
> iPhone and MS produces no computers.
That is wrong - iPhone is just a mobile, with third-party components in there (pretty basic ones too - not even 3G!). Anybody can put a phone together like that, Apple are banking on the software features - like multi-touch-screen GUI, iTunes support and their widgets. In the same way, anybody can knock a PC together, but it is the software that Microsoft banks on. I think it is childish and wrong to force them to rewrite a core part of their new operating system just because Google and other's can't embed their search into the defaults. The searching is part of the OS... just as Apple's is, but I don't see Google threatening apple, or creating a Linux version of Google Desktop (which i would consider using btw)!!
> There are other issues as well, as in that Microsoft expect
> third parties to develop software for Vista, otherwise no one
> would buy it. And rightly so, it wouldn't be worth buying if
> only MS software was on it.
They expect people to develop for it because they open up channels for people to develop on it... that's what any operating system does. So just because Apple have an operating system that people can develop for does that mean people can demand access to key parts of the operating system? I am betting because this is being done on Vista there will be an exploit soon enough - then everyone will scream security at them.
> Thats not the case with iPhone from Apple.
Think I just explained it kind of is... at least with Apple and OSX...
> Voskin - The difference is that Microsoft has a monopoly
> with windows, so the rules change.
Yes - absolutely right... to a point. But only when it does not degrade the performance, security or usability of a system. Which is the reason people like Apple do not open key area's of the operating system like this! Having embedded search as a feature is key to any operating system... Google have no right to suddenly say "hang on, we do search, and people like searching... give us acess or else we will waste years and alot of your money in court".... if it was a new feature that Google had been doing before - maybe it would then be acceptable!