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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2005-06-29
People seem to be putting a lot of emphasis on speed and eye candy issues when talking about operating systems in their comments. I don't think these are really such important features as is emplied though.
Users care about speed to a degree, as long as their computer seems fast in relative terms they're happy. This is obvious when you get a new computer, and all of a sudden your old one is too slow to use any more. Why keep using it when your new one starts programs seconds faster? But if users really cared about speed to the degree some people state then DOS would still hold the majority of market share assuming the general public bothered to learn it.
As for eye candy, there's a difference between pretty effects and intuitive user interfaces, and then there's a place where balance occurs and there's overlap. If you were to slap eye candy on curses interfaces in Linux's CLI I don't think it would win over X11 as far as ease of use. There's also a downfall to eye candy, and that would be the hardware requirement. I think eye candy is very nice to a point, and both OS X and Vista are looking attractive, but eye candy won't make or break either OS unless that happens to become the only major point of difference between them.