Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 16th Jan 2006 12:55 UTC
When Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1997, Micheal Dell was asked what he would do to fix Apple. Dell replied: "What would I do? I'd shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders." Following Friday's news that Apple had surpassed Dell's value of $71.97 billion, Jobs wrote an email to his staff: "Team, it turned out that Michael Dell wasn't perfect at predicting the future. Based on today's stock market close, Apple is worth more than Dell. Stocks go up and down, and things may be different tomorrow, but I thought it was worth a moment of reflection today." Who said capitalism is humourless?
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2006-01-16
Comparative performance on high-end apps is indeed where Apple is going to sink or swim with OS X on Intel.
As for your assertion that Vista will be technologically "far ahead" of Leopard, this is a very difficult assertion to make. Right now it seems that it is *only* in the area of display technology where Vista might have an edge over Leopard, based on comparing Vista with the already shipping Tiger. There is no other area where Vista seems to have an advantage.
I doubt that the feature set for Leopard has been fixed in stone yet. Quartz in Tiger already has a number of undocumented features, such as changing the user interface resolution (DPI), and arbitrary scaling and rotating windows. It seems pointless to speculate how Leopard will turn out, or to declare right now that Vista will be far ahead.