At 11:11 PM -0500 01/12/2006, AB wrote:
Can't quite figure 'ol Dan out. Works on macs and PC's for clients,
is a member of this list, knows his stuff but always seems somewhat
bitter towards Apple, at least since OS X. (And speaking of Apple
stock... holy crap! Doubles in past three months!)
Dan? What gives?
Oh, don't mind me. Not bitter, just frustrated. I'm an old codger
with my fingers in too many pies, lamenting opportunities found,
lost, ignored, and defeat snatched from the jaws of victory. I miss
real core memory, ITS, VMS, and the Classic Mac OS.
...Did ya'all catch the episode of Boston Legal last week, when Bill
Shatner's character whiped out his cell phone (it made ST:Classic
communicator sound when he flipped it open) to show an x-rated pic of
his gf on it! LOL Ain't technology grand!
Apple apparently has not turned into the company you wanted it to be.
True. I expected Apple to be on the high-road for both hardware and
software. I don't feel we're there or even going there, now.
Five years ago I don't think any one on this list would have
envisioned the current product line and marketing.
5 years ago... just before OS X 10.0 shipped... I was still
meandering around, bumping into door frames, wondering what Jobs was
smoking. Unix is the OS I fooled around with in HS and learned to
write drivers for in college. Unix is the OS that my Systems prof
often used as an example of how how not to do things. Roll forward
20 years ... and suddenly the merge with the beautiful BeOS is
history and we're in bed not just with Unix, but a kludged Unix...
On the hardware side, I figured the PowerPC was a nice chip to use
for a few more years, and that Apple would eventually move on to the
next big thing. A full POWER processor, for example. Or a Cell. Or
maybe even AMD *shudder*... But Apple didn't. They selected Intel's
band-aid x86. That definately ain't the high road.
Ok. So +/- a few bumps, Apple's market share has fallen then been
ploddingly low (3%?) since the intro of Mac OS X. And now we have
expensive Pentium-based hardware. I think our zealotry will maintain
Apple's stock price for a while. But then what?
FWIW,
- Dan.
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