Week 3 Readings - Wikipedia Mac OS X article

This article was an easier, though still technical, read than the Singh article. This article portrays Apple as a bit more responsive to customer opinion than Microsoft. Though they eventually drop support for some of their hardware platforms they at least provide tools, such as the Carbon Application Program Interface to help Mac software that wasn't rewritten to still run on the new system. Overall, Apple embraces the open source concept in their development and I really don't think I've seen that with Microsoft. The history presented in the article showed a company that is definitely moving in a different direction to attract new customers yet retain the old loyal base.