<OT> GM vs. MSoft vs. Apple

[Harry Giles]

Bill Gates wanted to look good and impress everyone with his success. He
 decided to measure Microsoft accomplishments against General Motors. His
 comparison went like this:

If automotive technology had kept pace with computer technology over the
 past few decades, you would now be driving a V-32 instead of a V8, and it
 would have a top speed of 10,000 miles/hour (160,000km/hr).

Or you could have an economy car that weighs 30 pounds (14 kilos) and gets
 a thousand miles to the gallon of gas. In either case, the sticker of the
 new car would be less than $50.00.

In response to all this goading, GM responded:

"Yes, but would you really want to drive a car that crashes 4 times a day?"

If Microsoft built cars...
Every time they re-painted the lines on the road, you'd have to buy a new
 car.

Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason, and you'd
 have to restart it. For some strange reason, you'd just accept this and
 drive on.

Occasionally, your car would stop and fail to restart, and you'd have to
 reinstall the engine. For some strange reason, you'd just accept this too.

You could only have one person in the car at a time, unless you bought a
 Car95 or a CarNT. But then you'd have to buy more seats.

APPLE...
Would make a car that was powered by the sun, was twice as fast, twice as
 easy to drive-but would only run on 5 percent of the roads.

The Macintosh car owners would get expensive Microsoft upgrades to their
 cars, which would make their cars run much slower.

The oil, engine, gas and alternator warning lights would be replaced by a
 single "General Car Fault" warning light.

New seats would force everyone to have the same size butt.

The airbag system would say, "Are you sure?" before going off.

If you were involved in a crash, you would have no idea what happened.