Re: Apple's Pippin console makes list "25 Worst Tech Products of All Time"

[Mitch <mitch@hawaii.rr>]

In article <1149000974.827818.145130@r44g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
Edwin <thorne25@juno.com> wrote:

> > At least Apple had the decency to cancel Pippin. I notice IE 6, which is
> > on the list as well, is still the current version of IE all these years
> > later. Nice work, Microsoft.
> 
> It takes a real Mac Zealot to try to make Apple's bumbling incompetence
> come out as a good_thing.
The sentence refers to their willingness to cancel the product -- it
does not glamorize the bad product or that  they madde a bad product.
It is acknowledgement they are not controlled by idiots.
That is a good thing, always.
The mistake has not been shown to be 'bumbling incompetence' -- only
that it was a bad product, or at a bad time, or not marketed well, or
some other related issue.

> I wonder if all the vendors who wasted money on catalogs, advertising,
> order processing, etc., blew off their losses by sneering at MS IE?
> Somehow it doesn't seem likely...

You don't have to 'sneer' at IE -- but you don't have to build
specifically for it. And I'd bet NO ONE has ever lost money by making a
broadly-compatible Web site. Many companies HAVE lost business by
making their site IE-only!