>Rick, do you honestly think I give a $hit about any of that? I don't. I have been a Microsoft developer since the early '90's when Microsoft bought Fox Software. I have never done development work with any non-Microsoft product and don't intend to in the near future. I do not own any Apple product, except a very old iPod Nano (which I have only put my own music on, ripped from CD's I owned ... I did not purchase music from iTunes). I have no iPhone, no iPad, no Mac.
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>So, don't rant to me, on my thread, about Apple's Evil Empire. I don't care.
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>My new customer has an existing application that is almost entirely Microsoft: SQL Server database, SSRS, ASP.NET, SharePoint. There's this one little teeny, tiny piece that was developed for an iPhone to be used out in the field. I am NOT redesigning this to use something other than iOS. I am NOT interested in working on the iOS piece, because I don't have the time, the knowledge, nor the infrastructure to do that. I'm looking for someone who already knows all that and wants a contract job. Period. So, quit hijacking my thread with your insane ranting, lecturing and conspiracy theories.
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>~~Bonnie

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>>Something to consider:
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>>Apple, Inc., as a single-entity corporation, has a market capitalization of $418B today, a high of over $700B last September, cash on hand over $100B (estimated around $130B) ... the GDP of the world's nations (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28nominal%29) puts those numbers into perspective:
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>>(1) Apple's cash on hand would place them at the level of a GDP equal to a nation like Iraq or Vietnam.
>>(2) Apple's market capitalization as of last September placed them in the top 20 of the world's nations' entire annual production of goods and services (everything manufactured, every man-hour of labor, all total), above Switzerland , and just below Turkey.
>>(3) Apple's current market capitalization places them in the top 25, at a level commensurate with Austria, South Africa, Thailand.
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>>One company.
>>That big.
>>Horrific.
>>Frightening beyond words.
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>>I would drop EVERY Apple product entirely. Flatly. Without remorse.
>>I would advise everyone I know to totally ditch everything related to Apple.
>>Keep nothing. Lose everything.
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>>Having that much power, that much money, that much influence, in one place, under the control of a very small number of people, is exceedingly dangerous. Beyond words dangerous.
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>>It should be avoided at all costs.
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>>I personally believe there's a real reason why their logo has a bite out of the fruit. It's no accident. It was foreshadowing. It was a plan implemented over time by a larger design than one man's vision.
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>>I personally will never support anything related to Apple. No matter the circumstance. I will leave software development and become a welder or farmer before I would write one line of code for anything Apple-related.
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>>And no, I am not joking.
>>I am completely serious.
>>Here's a blog post I wrote about it some time ago: http://www.visual-freepro.org/blog/?p=249