It's a Wonderful Life
A Xmas analogy/observation submitted by: <bwessels@logicraft.com> (Brian Wessels) via MacEvangelist.
Apple is George Bailey. Microsoft is Mr. Potter.
Over the years, things haven't always gone as George (Apple) wanted, but he kept fighting the good fight, keeping the Building & Loan (Macintosh)
going, and improving the lives of the people of Bedford Falls.
Mr. Potter (Microsoft), meanwhile, continued to grow in influence and power, trying to kill off the Building & Loan (Mac). He owns practically every other thing in town, but he can't get his hands on that, and it's gnawing at him. I wouldn't be so brash as to suggest that George's description of Potter as a "scurvy little spider" and a "warped, frustrated, old man" apply to any real people. ;-)
And if Apple had never been born? Mary (GUI principles developed at PARC) would be an old maid, the kids (Mac OS, plug and play, QuickTime, etc.) would not exist, and we'd all be, metaphorically speaking, living in over-priced run-down shacks in Potterville. |
