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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"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."
No, I got it free. CompUSA and every Mac reseller in my area were burning dics.
"you have paid each year to get updates."
No, I haven't. I didn't pay for 10.1 and I haven't paid for 10.3 yet.
"you paid in many cases to upgrade old macs (pre g3) so that you could run os x."
No, I didn't. I abandoned anything pre-G3 way before OS X. I still run OS X on a 400 MHz iMac DV edition by the way.
"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."
No, I didn't. I have slowly bought new applications as I felt they were worth upgrading for. Otherwise, I ran alternatives that were free, used Classic which I never experienced major problems with, or I rebooted into 9.
"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."
No, I didn't. SCSI was abandoned long before OS X, buddy. Even with 10.0 the only device that I had that didn't run properly was a FW CD burner. I bitched at the manufacturer and 3 months later, they had a driver. When 10.1 was released, the OS included a better driver. I have 2 printers, a scanner, 2 external HDs, an external CD burner, and a few other peripherals by the way.
"Emachines sells more machines than Apple."
No sh!t, they just passed them this year. Where are you from? The recession was in 2000.
"And all of the things that apple does matters"
huh?
"in fact if Apple did nothing but collect investment returns on their 4 billion dollar hoard of cash they would make more profit than they have been in recent years from all of their other operations combined."
And? What's wrong with that? Although it's not true, but whatever...
"the fact is they have many divisions that are losing money...Macs now being the main one most likely. they need that cash/investments just to cover other losses."
What divisions are you speaking of? They don't have a "Macs" division. They don't have losses, right now, fool.