On 6/9/05, J.S. Garrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's like looking at a Bentley and knowing it's really > a Chrysler. Or seeing a Sterling and realizing it's a > Honda.
I don't know what a Stirling is, but I think I know what you mean. > Microsoft kills MacOS. Might happen. > Intel kills AMD Might happen. > and absorbs > VIA. Er. Why? > Where'd the > choices go? eBay and your local classifieds. > > Nevermore anything as new and different as the Mac? > Can't say I'd like living with that. Oh, something new will come along. There is real innovation and diversity in cellphones, mostly outside the USA. They are morphing and merging with PDAs and hand-held games consoles and digital stills cameras & video cameras and MP3 players and GPS units and who knows what else to become fascinating little devices. In a few years, I think they'll make a lot of laptops irrelevant, just as laptops are currently making desktops irrelevant. Meanwhile, at the Big Iron end of things, the Itanium is going down like the (T)Itanic (as The Register calls it). It will suck down a lot of companies with it - it will destroy SGI and much of HP and others. Intel will live, it's rich. Linux will kill proprietary Unix, slowly but surely. Sun, already dragged down by SPARC, IBM's remnant server division now it's sold off the PC divison to Lenovo, some other bits of HP and so on. There'll be another round of acquisition and consolidation. Big names will disappear. But new companies will appear and prosper, like saplings in the forest clearing left by the fall of a giant. It will be interesting! -- Liam Proven Home: http://welcome.to/liamsweb * Blog: http://lproven.livejournal.com AOL, Yahoo UK: liamproven * ICQ: 73187508 * MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Vintage Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:vintage.macs@mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/vintage.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
