Re: Amelio's ouster

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Geoff Kaiser writes ...
> 
> Rubywand wrote:
> > "Apple needs something to advertise. Mac is an over-priced PC".
> 
> If that were true, I wouldn't have "wasted" my money on four of them.
>

     It's your money. If you think the Mac logo is worth the extra cost, 
then, that is reason enough.


> > "Microsoft, however, is not about to go into the tank".
> 
> Neither is Apple. They have over a billion in cash on hand and they're
> higher on the Fortune 500 list than Microsoft, and many other companies.
> Companies like this are not "about to go into the tank". Don't believe
> all the rabid melodramatic press you read.
>

     Press coverage has not been especially melodramatic. In fact, 
so-called "industry watchers" have consistently over-estimated Mac 
prospects.

     For example, reading press accounts of events in 1995, one might 
actually believe that Apple's failure to have stock ready to sell in 
response to Windows 95 problems was a critical error. Absurd! As usual, the 
bean counters were worried about the 'deck chairs' while the ship was 
fixing to flip over.

     Happily, Apple still has resources. They had better use them to find 
something to make that people will buy.


 
> > [Rhapsody...it'll run on Intel boxes.]
> 
> >  Fine; but, does Apple have Microsoft's permission to introduce a new
> > OS?
> 
> Was that a joke (I hope)? Since when does anyone need Microsoft's
> permission to put an OS on an Intel box? Tell that to the makers of
> OS/2, Linux, OpenStep, etc.


     You may be sure that the makers of OS/2, etc. already know.

 
Rubywand