Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 18th Oct 2006 21:03 UTC
Increasing component costs and pressure to cut its prices mean Apple's best bet for long-term success is to quit the hardware business and license the Mac to Dell, analyst firm Gartner claimed on Tuesday. In a surprisingly ambitious report, called Apple Should License the Mac to Dell, Gartner says Apple should concentrate on what it does best - create software - and make use of Dell's production and distribution infrastructure.
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2006-01-03
"• Nathan Myhrvold (Microsoft’s chief technology officer, 6/97: “The NeXT purchase is too little too late. Apple is already dead.” "
Myhrvold's latest "innovation" is a company-- get this-- devoted to stealing other peoples' patents by finding loopholes. Typical. And Paul Allen founded ---ugghh-- Ticketmaster, I think. Glaser, tehe sucky Real Networks. I sense a trend.
"To be fair, those predictions would've been right on the dot, if Steve hadn't pulled a once in a lifetime turnaround out of his hat"
Gassee and BeOS MIGHT have found some traction. But I agree-- Jobs is great. The trick to competing against MSFT is to stay on the island while the 800 pound gorilla slowly self-destructs in a cloud of bad software and failed side projetcs (Zune, XBox, MSN, WinCE, ActiveX)