Linked by Aaron Vegh on Wed 5th May 2004 19:37 UTC
Is there no larger contingent of armchair corporate CEOs than Apple fanatics? Let's examine the so-called wealth of opinion out there and see how it measures up.
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actually yes,
"What are you blabbering about? Something from almost 3 years ago that was very equitable is going to kill Apple's future? Whatever."
it already has (along with many other bad moves).
there has been much discussion over recent years about the cost of going to OS X. For a classic mac os user, you had to pay to get the beta....apple did not provide it free.
if you bought 10.04 (still beta actually), 10.1 was only free if you happened to be fortunate enough to be first in line at a store that had the discs in stock. otherwise you paid.
you have paid each year to get updates.
you paid in many cases to upgrade old macs (pre g3) so that you could run os x.
you paid in many cases too for all new third party software because it either didnt run in classic mode or ran with too many issues.
you paid for new third party hardware in many cases because legacy equipment did not work with x...especially the huge commitment many mac users had put into scsi over many many years. apple just said hey, lets move to firewire, so what if you have thousands invested in scsi scanners and hard drives etc etc.
add all that up and you have the Switch Campaign alright: its called 5% of market was Apples when Jobs launched the iMac and now it is 1.8% six years later. The Switch Campaign is to move to Windows.