Linked by Thomas Hormby on Wed 17th Nov 2004 19:43 UTC
According to many economists, Gilbert Amelio is the savior of businesses in trouble. With this in mind, the board of directors at Apple decided to appoint Gil Amelio to the board after reporting another huge loss in 1994. At the time, Michael Spindler was the head of Apple, and sales in every division. The board accepted Spindler's resignation and appointed Gil Amelio to the helm of Apple.
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the pda market is mutateing into or mergeing with the mobile market, and from what i understand, usa never have had a good mobile market to begin with. think about it, the most interesting pdas right now is the blueberry and the treo. both are pdas with grafted on wireless, be it wifi or phone. then you have the ms pocket pc platform that is showing up in more and more phones, atleast from qtek (or whatever the name of that company was) as smartphones.
as for monopoly in this market, there is symbian, a fully multitasking, phone aimed, os that with some tweaking could be used as a pda os. sonyerricson uses it in their 800/900 series. and you allways have linux, motorola and sharps is going in that direction.
as for the quality of ME, its the worst pos os i have ever run into, even compared to the usual ms standard. win2k was a mutch better desktop os. xp would maybe have been interesting if not for that silly activation system.
to me tho, linux is the real future. no single company owns it, therefor one can not get a monopoly any time soon. problem is that is scares the managers and programmers used to earning money the microsoft way. basicly i think they are to set in their ways to fully grasp the effects of nobody owning the code.