[iamelgringo]

What I don't understand is if Microsoft was this draconian and paranoid about controlling the spin on new products, people would be up in arms about how evil the company is. But, since it's Apple, people shrug, and say, "Yeah, but they build great products."

[edu]

Probably the great products in "Yeah, but they build great products." is the key. And by this I don't want to imply neither that Apple build great products nor that Microsoft build bad products, but a LOT of poeple have this feeling, so...

[MaysonL]

And it's more true than the reverse is...