I'm not saying I like everything to be the same either. Its just rather annoying to have to sit through the mess large companies cause by trying to "Protect" there products. Good example; WGA, I have to play Phone An Asian (I didn't mean that in a racist manner, just that they've outsourced there tech support too Asia, and there accents over there make trying to re-activate windows that much more annoying) with Microsoft's WGA every time I install XP on someones computer so I can re-activate it, trust me, that is THE MOST annoying activation process of ANY product I have EVER seen.
But my point is, having several manufactures who change the design of there computer per model, and deem something outdated after X amount of years only stacks on top of the never ending release of new versions of operating systems, and release of new operating systems all together. Its just a bit bothersome to need ten thousand CD's and have too dodge some anti-piracy feature just too get someones computer working again simply because there computer has been activated more than once because they can't stop getting viruses because they have a chronic porn addiction or whatever. Do we REALLY need so much new stuff? I can understand updates and whatnot, but things seem to be just simply pushed aside too soon these days.
I mean, you don't go out and buy a car and expect IT can't drive on the roads because its out of date by a couple months do you? So why are we tolerating these companies deeming things out of date so quickly in the land of software and hardware? Its just a way to make us spend more, the never ending climb to the top of the money pile.
Point being, for every new piece of software or hardware out there, someone will near immediately try to make a better version of it. "Oh look, we've made it faster, oh look, we've made it more reliable, oh look, we've made it faster AND more reliable AGAIN". All this just seems too get old after a while, can't they just program something worth a crap that doesn't NEED too be completely replaced in a few months or years? Seems to be to much competition out there and to little innovation is all I'm saying.
