If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics: (Part I)
1. For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash twice a day.
2. Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would have to buy a new car.
3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You would have to pull over to the side of the road, close all of the car windows, shut it off, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could continue. For some reason you would simply accept this.
4. Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine.
5. Only one person at a time could use the car unless you bought "CarNT", but then you would have to buy more seats.
6. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast and twice as easy to drive--but would only run on five percent of the roads.
7. The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all be replaced by a single "General Protection Fault" warning light.
8. New seats would force everyone to have the same sized butt.
9. The airbag system would ask "are you SURE?" before deploying.
10. Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key and grabbed hold of the radio antenna.
11. GM would require all car buyers to also purchase a deluxe set of Rand McNally Road maps (now a GM subsidiary), even though they neither need nor want them. Attempting to delete this option would immediately cause the car's performance to diminish by 50% or more. Moreover, GM would become a target for investigation by the Justice Dept.
12. Every time GM introduced a new car, car buyers would have to learn to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car.
13. You'd have to press the "Start" button to turn the engine off.
edit: szwarts +1 behulpzaam, idd was de eerste quote niet volledig, had hem snel van het internet gepikt, deze zou de officiele GM-pressrelease moeten zijn, vreemd genoeg was in die op i-net circulerende Macintosh bv vervangen door Sun en inderdad slechts 9 punten uit de lijst aanwezig
ik meen dat dit uit iets van '97-98 stamt (daarom enkel de vergelijk tussen w95 en winNT) en een kleine ruzie was tussen de amerikaanse autoindustrie en microsoft door een uitspraak van Bill Gates bij het begin van de welbekende rechtspraak:
hierin wees hij erop dat dankzij microsoft de PC-wereld in vijftien jaar evenveel vooruitgang had geboek als de auto-wereld in 100 jaar:
If GM had kept up with the
technology like the computer industry has, we would
all be driving $25.00 cars that got 1,000 miles to
the gallon.
hierboven was de officiele reactie van General Motors...
ben benieuwd of die .Net applicaties nu ook in General Motors-automobielen moeten komen
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