Re: Apple Computer changes its name

["BLuRry" <brendan.robert@gmail.com>]

>     Back to the topic of this thread, the same day Apple announced
> their name change to "Apple Inc." at MacExpo, conspicuously absent
> were announcements of any new Macintoshes computers, updates to
> MacOS X or other Mac software. Seems kind of deja vu, to AppleExpo's
> of the late 80's/early 90's, when Apple started shifting their focus from
> their core product, the Apple II series, to the Macintosh. All while
> promising to support both products.

Drop Macintosh hardware, maybe.  One of the things on the rumor mill is
that Apple is poised to strike at the heart of the PC community with a
general PC version of OS X.  If that happens, consumers won't need to
buy an expensive mac to use OS X.  Apple is talking to a lot of pc
manufacturers behind the scenes, according to rumor.  This might be
either a resurgence of the mac clone days, only using less proprietary
PC hardware (hence, cheap mac clones again), or just a full-blown
attack to go after the windows market -- which seems very likely
considering the architectural shift to a PC-like platform.

Either way, it will be interesting.  ;-)  All microsoft has to do is
fall flat on their face with Vista (which they seem to be doing a very
good job at) and Apple has an edge to strike.