Evening,
The great man Steve Jobs has passed on.
It's always sad when someone passes away. Especially so young.
A person would combined good design with new technology.
It depends! Apple kit "looks" good, Apple Macs work extremely well (I'm
told) although the Lisa was a bit of a non-starter as I remember. (Like
Windows, "stolen" from Xerox's Palo Alto Research Park).
I remember the first time I saw an iPod, it looked good and seemed to
work well. I never bought one for the simple reason that Apple sell you
things at vastly inflated prices - in my opinion. And many are the sheep
that buy Apple because it's Apple - rather than weighing up the
alternatives. Designer label collectors. ;-)
The iPhone never did anything for me. The iPad didn't either -
especially after they were advertising it showing a particular web site
in full display. The website was 100% Flash based and because Steve Jobs
has a spat with Adobe, there was no way that Flash would run on his kit!
I predict, however, that Steve was the only man in charge who could make
Apple profitable. I rather suspect that the will do what they did last
time he "left" - go downhill.
It will take a bit longer this time as the sheep have paid huge sums on
money into the bank accounts of Apple. They can afford a few failures
now - but they will eventually fail. :-(
Of course, I could be wrong - it happens! ;-)
May he rest in peace. Cancer is a bastard!
Cheers,
Norm.
PS. The last Apple thing I liked enough to use was the Apple ][. With
twin 5.5" floppies - then were the days!
--
Norman Dunbar
Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd
Registered address:
Thorpe House
61 Richardshaw Lane
Pudsey
West Yorkshire
United Kingdom
LS28 7EL
Company Number: 05132767
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