 Scott WPremium
join:2003-08-09
Beaverton, OR | reply to The Dv8or
Re: Goodbye MacAddict Come on, guys. I love my mac, OS X, and my ipod as much as anyone, but "we won" ??!!
There is no "won" in the computer industry, only still living. Particularly when your share of the computer market is 7% at best.
This is stupid. MacLife doesn't mean anything more to me than MacAddict did. It's just a break with the past because they were going downhill and needed to disassociate themselves with a magazine rapidly losing popularity. |
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 rexbinaryMod KingPremium
join:2005-01-26
Plano, TX
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| said by Scott W:Come on, guys. I love my mac, OS X, and my ipod as much as anyone, but "we won" ??!! I'm not sure if you were a Mac user throughout the 1990's, but if you were, then you should understand what they mean by "we won".
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Scott WPremium
join:2003-08-09
Beaverton, OR
2 edits | said by rexbinary:I'm not sure if you were a Mac user throughout the 1990's, but if you were, then you should understand what they mean by "we won". More like, survived. And doing very well indeed, compared to historical performance. But the personal computing industry is littered with the corpses of companies who thought they'd "won" somehow or other. It's a dumb statement, and it's still a dumb reason to change a magazine title. If this is the type of insights they bring to covering the mac scene, it's no wonder no one reads MacAddict anymore.
The next few years should be great and exciting for mac owners. But there's still easily any number of possibilities for Apple to screw up and take a fatal nosedive, particularly as Jobs seems to be mainly responsible for Apple's better decisions. He won't be around forever. Whoever comes next is not likely to have the same type of creative vision. They don't cultivate that in people anymore. No one in the computing industry aside from a handful of software developers knows how to do anything revolutionary anymore, nor do they have the stones to do it. They are all playing it safe and wasting time with standard corporate bs and can't find their behinds with both hands. |
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 The Dv8orJust call me Dong Suck Oh, M.D.Premium
join:2001-08-09
Denver, CO
1 edit | said by Scott W:But there's still easily any number of possibilities for Apple to screw up and take a fatal nosedive It kinda sounds like you cant wait for it to happen so you can dance around pointing to it.
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Scott WPremium
join:2003-08-09
Beaverton, OR
1 edit | said by The Dv8or:It kinda sounds like you cant wait for it to happen so you can dance around pointing to it.
I've been in the computer industry over half my life. I'm simply stating the facts. Look at HP. Look at Sony. I did state that I love my Mac and OS X above any other computer type or OS, did I not? I swear just because someone doesn't wear rose colored glasses, suddenly they want Apple to go under. Yeah, whatever. If you want to think that's my opinion, be my guest. You don't have to be right if you don't want to. After all the advances Apple has made in the past couple years, which I was glad to see, thank you very much, they are still well under 10% market share. That's with everything going their way. Imagine Jobs leaving and some boring loser taking over. Forgotten so soon how things were going before Jobs returned? I really hate when people completely misread what I say and then tell me with authority that I am thinking something that's pretty @## much 180 degrees opposite of what I am thinking. Open that big rotating eye of yours, re-read what I said, and then tell me again what I actually did say, not what you want me to have said. |
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 JohnnyPremium
join:2001-06-27
Atlanta, GA
kudos:1 | reply to Scott W
It's true that without a Jobsian approach Apple could do stupid things like
- licensing FairPlay
- licensing OS X
- spewing out a huge number of products with crazy names like the "iMac 2751CX"
- renting songs and movies
- letting the iPod play WMA
- making a cheap tower that lets the user "expand" everything
- wasting money on "gamer" things that nobody would buy
- selling copies of Windows with the Mac hardware
- adding idiotic features like FM radio and dictation to the iPod
Any or all of which might be advocated by clueless executives who listen to people who have no idea what they are talking about.
And any or all of which would spiral Apple into red ink.
But hopefully Jobs has people ready to step in who aren't stupid enough to do those types of suicidal things.
The October financials are estimated to be stunning. Can't wait to see them. We already know they at least hit the estimates because they haven't warned. |
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Scott WPremium
join:2003-08-09
Beaverton, OR
1 edit | said by Johnny:- adding idiotic features like FM radio and dictation to the iPod Actually, being able to record to the ipod would be nice. The iRiver is the choice for podcasters on the go because they can record into it and (assuming decent mics) get a good sound. Having the ipod able to do something similar would be a huge plus, IMO. |
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