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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Member since:2005-07-06
It's not about sticking with the platform. It's about thinking the company and OS can do no wrong, which I do think Mac and Linux zealots are worse about.
With Microsoft, they get hounded viciously for anything they do wrong or that can even be skewed as being wrong, on the net. Not saying they don't deserve it sometimes, but people go WAY overboard with it sometimes.
I do think Mac users are the most elitist, in general, out of the "big 3". I also think most people would agree with me on that. Except Mac users of course 
Of course, Windows users are the stupidest, in general. But that's all it means in both cases... generally speaking.
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2006-01-03
If Apple is a cult; Windows is a religion. People seem to stick with Win, no matter what. I'm sure LINUX fanciers are equally perplexed about this as I am.
As for RISC: it IS superior, and I DO miss the PowerPC alliance, but IBM thinks of itself as a "solutions" company, and Motorola's vision doesn't seem to extend past cell phones. If your partners don't understand that they could have knocked Intel and AMD off the map with just a LITTLE effort, what are you going to do? At least Intel knows what its business is. I am pleased to hear the Yonah's are sounding pretty good.