Meanwhile, Amazon has focused on selling products over the internet. Their strength is more in utilizing the technology than providing it for the use of consumers. Their competitive aim has been very focused on the print world, particularly selling books. Their competitors have been Barnes and Noble, Books-A-Million, Borders, and other physical print booksellers. Amazon has been brilliantly positioned to make a seamless transition from physical print to the virtual ebook. As this transition has finally started to get legs after many tablet-like ebook products failed, the reason for the recent ebook success has been the iPad. Previous ebook incarnations have been high in expense, low in function, and lacked versatility. The iPad is not inexpensive, but it is high in function, versatile and, probably most important as we anticipate the demise of the printed word, ubiquitous. Unfortunately for Amazon, the Kindle is not in the same league as the iPad and their company does not have the capability to effectively compete in the fast changing hardware/software market.

The next battle, already underway, is based upon who gets paid for delivering content. Amazon’s Kindle is a successful strategic move against the physical print world, but only a poor tactical move against Apple’s iPad. If the choice is based upon the physical product, Amazon has lost and Apple has won already. The true battle lies, as Alan alludes to, in the “razor blades” – which in this case is the ebook content. Within that world, Amazon does have a powerful, if little touted, strategic advantage. CreateSpace is an Amazon.com company that allows authors to self-publish. Without going through all of the steps in this quickly moving world, authors – large and small – are cutting out agents and publishers in favor of self-publishing. This squeeze play on the former gatekeepers will open up a wealth of new creative content.

Apple and Amazon are intersecting, but may be headed into different, non-competitive spaces. NetFlix supplanted BlockBuster with a greater breadth of offerings for a much more reasonable price. Amazon is supplanting the bricks-and-mortar stores, but will Apple supplant Amazon as an ebook provider? While Apple has done this with iTunes, it remains to be seen whether they will be interested or able to take over the virtual print world.

MacOS has quite a few viruses and since MacOS users are generally clueless about viruses (and computing as a whole), that makes them more susceptible.

MacOS X crashes like a mofo, it was particularly fun with Photoshop recently being almost unusably unstable. What’s worse, is MacOS crashes don’t tell you what’s wrong, so there’s no way to easily fix them, whereas Windows gives detailed information that can be used to track down and repair the problem.

Windows Vista and Windows 7 have almost no crashing or virus problems whatsoever.

Of course, virus problems are generally caused by bad user habits, no matter what OS a person is on.