Yeah but the article is about Apple being the first to get rid of the optical drive. The author is basically saying they are pioneering but they are not. Yes it is another Apple fanboy site which explains everything, but spinning less media PC's have been around for already quite some time even before Android was conceived. Most were and still being used though as small POS units in retail shops. I was planning to buy one a few years back to make a media PC out of it for the TV at home, never got around to it though. There is no spinning disk at all on these devices, all solid state, a few ports and that is it.
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I guess it is how you look at Apple. Most people think of Apple as of Apple vs Microsoft but that isn't the case to me. When I hear Apple I consider Apple as mainly hardware and Apple a little as the software. Microsoft only makes software so Microsoft vs Apple doesn't make any sense. So what does make sense to me Apple vs the entire PC world.
In the past Apple used to bash the entire PC market and that is who they are up against. They got allot to compete against and this is where the fanboys are blind. To the fanboys there is only PC, which PC is not one line and never the same internals.
Does this mean I am a fan of Microsoft, no, I hope Microsoft dies they are or maybe more crooked than Apple. They both want control over the market and over the users.
What I am a fan of is openness, so mainly I a rooting for the open source OSes.