That Shirt is so Ugly, You Should Wear it Golfing!

I will never understand why golf fashion is so bad. Seriously people wear crap on the golf course that if you stuff like that all the time you would fine yourself on “What Not to Wear” faster then you can say “fore!”

Come to think of it, maybe they should have a “What Not to Wear for Golfers.”They really need it. They’re always wear those ugly-ass white belts. Why white? Add that to a red faded polo shirt tucked into royal blue shorts that end before the knee and you have one of the crappiest looking outfits ever. Yey for some reason, that outfit is just find for the golf course.

Apple: Caught in the Catch-22

Apple is a very interesting company. Despite what they may be trying to everyone via their “Mac vs PC” campaign, they don’t want to take the top spot from Microsoft in the OS kingdom. Yes, they want you to swhich, they just don’t want that many of you to swhich.

Apple is in it’s current position now because it didn’t want to play well with others. Steve Jobs is a control freak and being a control freak didn’t want anybody buy him to mess with his computer. Originally they passed it off as that it’s both the hardware and software that make the computer, so it both should be from the same company, but as Jobs has shown as over the years is that he really is just a control freak.

Over time the control freak origins had been morphed into a “we’re different” mindset, going against the “man” or Bill Gates. This has a very profitable and hardcore, but relatively small fanbase. But as any business, Apple wants to get bigger. But it faces a problem, they can’t get too big.

The reasons are three-fold. First get too big and that hardcore fanbase of “different thinkers” will feel like Jobs and pals sold out and move on the next “different thing.” Seriously, people say that they like Mac’s GUI better, but it’s really because it’s not Windows and they’re too lazy to deal with Linux.

A second reason is Jobs really doesn’t want his software to be under the same magnifying glass that Windows is. Yeah, Vista has issues, but so does Mac OS X Leopard. But nobody hears about them because nobody really uses it. Everybody hears about Vista’s problems because everybody uses it.

The third and the most important one is that if they get too big Jobs won’t want the anti-trust people looking at him too hard.

Microsoft was ruled to be a monopoly because they included a web-browser with an operating system. How do you think anti-trust regulators would feel about Apple’s business model? Not only do they include the web-browser, but they also tell you what hardware you have to buy to get their software.

Granted, Apple will never get close to Microsoft marketshare on operating systems, simplely because they don’t play well with others, but they don’t have to get much bigger before the courts start looking at the legality of some of Apple’s practices.