Re: Apple buy-out by Motorola?

[neiderma@er5.rutgers.edu (Kid)]

>I'd hardly say that Apple was "royally screwing up".  They are, after
>all, consistently one of the top three personal computer vendors in the
>world.

Apple has say 10% of the computer market share worldwide.  This means
that 80% (guessing) of the people are not using Apple technology.
This means that for every time you roll your one-button mouse, there
are at least 8 people rolling 3-button ones.  The only way to compete
is to market yourself.  I think it's worse for people not to know you
exist than to know you exist and not like you.

Apple makes the #1 invention (last example the PowerBooks), they
outsell everything, and then another company copies the style, and
because no one knows Apple started it, they don't buy the Apple product.

I was working with a Mac in an office, and someone came by and said
"what's that?".  "It's a Macintosh," I said.  She then said "that
Macintosh has Windows on it?".  

>I'd also guess that Apple doesn't want to push the Power Macs too hard
>before native versions of popular software like Word become available

That's a valid point, but by saying next to nothing, they have
shrunk their windows of opportunity to show the world The Way Things
Should Be (TM) before Windows 95 comes out.

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