Linked by alcibiades on Tue 30th May 2006 20:40 UTC
Dell and its business model has been the focus of a lot of comment on Apple oriented forums in recent months. The Dell model is said to be unviable, and Dell's recent news is said to prove this. A limited endorsement of sorts for the so called "end to end model" in music has been published by Walt Mossberg in the WSJ. Recently a real sky-is-falling article with this theme has appeared here. This is a subject that matters. If the advocates of the so-called "end to end model" are right, it implies that the industry structure which allows us all to source hardware from wherever we want, and run a variety of OSs on it, is in danger.
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"Apple is the only survivor using its business model"
the old Monty Python Sketch (replacing "old Man" with "Sun Microsystems, Inc."):
Cart-master: Bring out your dead!
Man: Here's one-
Cart-master: Ninepence.
Sun Microsystems, Inc.: (feebly) I'm not dead!
Cart-master: (suprised) What?
Man: Nothing! Here's your ninepence....
Sun Microsystems, Inc.: I'm not dead!
Cart-master: 'Ere! 'E says 'e's not dead!
Man: Yes he is.
Sun Microsystems, Inc.: I'm not!
Cart-master: 'E isn't?
Man: Well... he will be soon-- he's very ill...
Sun Microsystems, Inc.: I'm getting better!
Man: No you're not, you'll be stone dead in a moment.
Cart-master: I can't take 'im like that! It's against regulations!
Sun Microsystems, Inc.: I don't want to go on the cart....
Man: Oh, don't be such a baby.
Cart-master: I can't take 'im....
Sun Microsystems, Inc.: I feel fine!
Man: Well, do us a favor...
Cart-master: I can't!
Man: Can you hang around a couple of minutes? He won't be long...
Cart-master: No, gotta get to Robinson's, they lost nine today.
Man: Well, when's your next round?
Cart-master: Thursday.
Sun Microsystems, Inc.: I think I'll go for a walk....
Man: You're not fooling anyone, you know--
(to Cart-master) Look, isn't there something you can do...?
(they both look around)
Sun Microsystems, Inc.: I feel happy! I feel happy!
(the Cart-master deals Sun Microsystems, Inc. a swift blow to the head with his wooden
spoon. Sun Microsystems, Inc. goes limp.)
Man: (throwing Sun Microsystems, Inc. onto the cart) Ah. thanks very much.
Cart-master: Not at all. See you on Thursday!
Man: Right! All right....