In a nutshell the article basically taunts with the fact that Apple has a history of creating it owns playing field, dominating this playing field, and refusing to play in other playing fields. It then moves on to the author's "bad feeling" with regards to Safari on Win boxes, and this is basically the reason why I decided to post this rant.

Snippet:

"The insular Apple universe is a relatively gentle place, an Athenian utopia where Apple's occasional missteps are forgiven, all partake of the many blessings of citizenship, and everyone feels like they're part of an Apple-created golden age of lofty ideas and superior design.

But the Windows world isn't like that. It's a cold, unforgiving place where nothing is sacred, users turn like rabid wolves on any company that makes even the smallest error, and no prisoners are taken. Especially the Windows browser market."

Apple's release of a buggy version of its Win box Safari is the reason for this snippet. Yes Apple decided to release a buggy browser to the Win box runners, but as stated on my "Safari for Windows " post, this pretty much went according to game plan. Yes Apple fan-boys, fan-girl, and fan-gays are very forgiven and model citizens of an Apple dimension. But unfortunately I have to digress a bit from the context of the Windows world scope used here.

We will now take a shot at attempting to simplify citizenship to this "Windows world": Anyone that uses a Microsoft created operating system, along with applications that run on these systems. Though I often use Linux, this simple definition grants me instant citizenship to the "Windows world". Nothing says you can't have more than one citizenship.

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