Re: Apple's ways

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

Ralf Quint <Ralf_Quint@hot_mail.com> wrote:

>supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:
>
>>Mac front and center and that was because the Mac was Jobs'
>>baby.  So in the end, the Apple II didn't change and the prices
>>didn't drop until it was so old that all most people remember is
>>an underpowered machine in the early 1990s, a 128k Apple IIe,
>>the last model to die.  But to judge the Apple II by how it
>>looked in 1990 is unfair.  Imagine if Intel gobbled up AMD but
>
>I didn't do this...., your beating the wrong bush here....

Not saying you did but just rehasing some history for the
thread.

>>rather than kill it, seeing the brand loyalty of Athlon users
>>continue to sell the 1.4Ghz Athlon and use the profits to add
>>to Pentium rather than Athlon R&D and marketing.  A few years
>>later, Pentiums are running at next gen speeds while Athlons
>>are still poking along at 1.4Ghz.  Then Intel turns around and
>>convinces everyone that see, the Athlon sucks.  The shocking
>
>Well, let's see how the upcomming 50% price reduction of Intel's P4
>together with the 845 chipset is effecting AMD's position in the
>market...

Well, Intel can afford to do this because it is a near monopoly
just like Microsoft could give away browsers and (in some
cases) office software.  Whether AMD can survive against this
kind of thing where Netscape could not is unknown but if any
company can do it, it would be AMD.  AMD still has a couple
of tricks up its sleeves.  There is still a lot of untapped clock
speed in the K7 core.  But even if you are not an AMD fan, you
have to thank them for lowering the price of the P4 for you,
right?  ;-)  The point is, this kind of thing (real competition)
never happens in the Mac world which is why prices continue
to be high.

>And Apple will have a hard time performance wise if those GHz P4's
>become mainstream in the PC market....

If Apple is a smart company, it will begin lowering prices and,
since Motorolla can't match AMD or Intel in the clock speed
department, push multi-CPU solutions.  Once MacOS X takes
over, software should have no problem taking advantage of
parallel processing and dual, tri, or quad 800Mhz G4s would
certainly make up for lack of single Ghz+ chips.  So it is not
too late for Apple to change.  The hardware isn't the problem.
The mentality is.