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Re: Apple's ways
- Subject: Re: Apple's ways
- From: supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)
- Date: 05 Aug 2001 18:58:12 GMT
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com
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pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter) wrote:
>> They are GRADUALLY phased out providing a transition period for
>> users thus maintaining continuity. This is something that Apple
>> under Jobs never understood.
>
>Jobs was a visionary, not a practical man..... :-)
Not practical indeed. iMac was brilliant, for example. If they only
lowered the price.
If I were a user in early 2000 and saw an iMac and a plain old PC
side by side, my first instinct would be to go for the iMac. Then
I would see the price difference and the spec difference and I'd
select the PC. Were the iMac the SAME price as a name brand
PC (say Compaq), the iMac would have been a LOT more
popular.
Same thing with what Jobs is doing now with the DVD-RAM units.
Brilliant but it would have to be even better...if they would sell
them at a reasonable price (say like a name-brand PC plus the
cost of a DVD-RAM drive).