Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 30th Apr 2006 20:52 UTC
When I started this whole Sunday Eve Column thing, I was painfully aware I was basically doing the same thing as a certain other individual who somehow insists on using the first letter of his middle name (maybe because he thinks it makes him look cool?). I believe that person only writes his columns to make money. And that's just sad.
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RE[2]: You're probably right about Dvorak
by alcibiades on Mon 1st May 2006 08:09
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"Why would someone want to buy a computer from a company who is insulting you in their commercials?"
Do so agree with this - and its not just the commercials, though there have been plenty of these, its too many of the postings. Its such a weird phenomenon. It reminds one a bit of some of these crazy extreme minority religious groups who seem to go out of their way to provoke negative reactions.
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Apple has grown, but it wasn't because of the switch campaign. It was a big drag. It made people not want to buy a mac. Why would someone want to buy a computer from a company who is insulting you in their commercials?
It never took off.
But in the mean time, plenty of people took interest in macs, but not because of the campaign. I bought a mac, but it had zero to do with the switch campaign. It made me not to want to buy a mac.
Firewire is pretty much dead. It started to get a foot hold in the non-mac world a few years ago, but then USB2.0 came out. It's not perfect, but it managed to kill off FW. Also, around that time FW800 came out which had in-compatible plugs, this signed FW's death. And now with eSATA, the biggest place for FW (external drives) is going away. So there isn't much of a place for it.
After the window of time where most PCs and PC motherboards were coming with FW ports on them, there has been a retreat and now FW tends to be a header, not a port. It's fading away.