see below, plz.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cameron Kaiser" <spectre_at_stockholm.ptloma.edu>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 7:34 PM
Subject: Re: OT Steve Jobs rant
> > I think that is clearly open to debate. Jobs took the company in the
> > direction HE wanted it to go, and has at BEST had mixed results, great
> > success with the iMac, nothing special anyplace else, and he did tremendous
> > damage. He killed the clone program and the alliance with IBM, and in so
> > doing lost droves of developers and caused a half dozen of the most loyal
> > companies that supported Apple to fail. Long term Jobs may be seen as the
> > person who sent Apple to obscurity trading a loyal base of creative people
> > for a fickle consumer user base.
>
> Actually, I think killing the clones was a *good* idea. They would have
> simply marginalised Apple the way all the Palm clones are now gobbling
> Palm. Rather than increasing market share for all Mac-like things, it was
> merely subdividing the market so that *no* company could survive. But to
> be honest I did lust after one of those multiprocessor Daystars :-)
>
Jobs' motives are simply to kill the clones so he can charge 50x his cost
instead of 4x like most makers. I remember all the traffic about whether to
sell the original MAC for $995 or $2995 ... Apple'd have made plenty at $995,
and, if they'd been half as good as the fanatics say, they'd have had the PC
market all to themselves.
>
> Besides, I'm seeing Apples in stores that would never have touched them
> before. There's even some Mac stuff in Circuit City, and plenty in CompUSA.
> And those Quicksilver G4s are pretty bloody sweet.
>
In the thrift stores here in Denver, you can get almost any Apple product that
shows up, and there have been some pretty powerful ones, for about what a PC
hard disk costs. Clearly, some people hold them in higher esteem than others.
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