* Posts by yvon renard

2 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Jun 2007

Apple's Leopard leaps into action

yvon renard

Re: Why

As well as not wanting to loose money from selling their "cool" but overpriced hardware (which is the same as everybody else's on the inside), Apple doesn't want to have to start supporting lots of generic hardware. Software (OS) stability can only be reliably managed when you have control over all the sensitive system stuff like drivers. Apple's job is therefor much easier that Microsoft's, where Windows can be crashed by a misbehaving driver from a 3rd party. If Apple allowed OS X to be installed on generic PCs they would undoubtedly loose all brand credibility for stability.

Google's Street View could be unlawful in Europe

yvon renard

Already done in France

Street view has been available in France (select towns) for some time already:

http://ved.pagesjaunes.fr/ciweb2g-ved/photo/AfficherPageAccueilPhoto.do

I haven't heard of any problems so far.